Example sentences of "mainly upon [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The study focused mainly upon a group of twelve ‘ lads ’ in a school in Birmingham whom Willis followed around school and outside . |
| 2 | Although Spencer worked out an elaborate scheme of social evolution , in terms of the increasing scale and complexity of societies , his political sociology was based mainly upon a fairly simple distinction between ‘ militant ’ and ‘ industrial ’ societies , the former being characterized by the predominance of activities concerned with defence and offence ( that is , warfare ) , the latter by the predominance of activities concerned with ‘ sustentation ’ ( that is , production and trade ) . |
| 3 | The validity of a patent still turns mainly upon the question whether it complies with this enactment . |
| 4 | All these reasons serve to explain why this study concentrates mainly upon the attitudes to death that prevailed in the middle-class , whose irresistible rise was so prominent a feature of the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Official concern was focused mainly upon the bottom forty per cent — those who left school at the minimum age and entered ‘ dead end ’ jobs . |
| 6 | Whilst these variations are important I shall focus this discussion mainly upon the more common examples , where support is being given by one person to another . |
| 7 | The sequence of events depends mainly upon the original mass . |
| 8 | In the first part of her reign she relied mainly upon the Antwerp money-market , where her debts in 1560 exceeded £272,000 . |
| 9 | Sedimentation and filtration for the removal of solid matter from process water are essential for most textile uses , and the methods employed depend mainly upon the source of the water . |
| 10 | The study is based mainly upon the records of the civil courts supplemented by such papers of corporate and administrative institutions as have survived . |
| 11 | The reasonableness of such clauses depends mainly upon the questions raised by s 11(4) of the UCTA " is the amount a reasonable one having regard to the financial resources of the party seeking its protection , and the extent to which he could insure against the relevant liabilities ? |