Example sentences of "directly upon [art] " in BNC.

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1 He succeeded in isolating the essential germ-killing element , and created sulfanilamide , the first modern drug to work directly upon the cause of infection .
2 Most of the animals in the sea either feed directly upon the diatoms and flagellates of the phytoplankton , or feed upon creatures that have fed upon that phytoplankton .
3 Of the pelagic animals , some fish browse directly upon the plankton , as do the baleen whales , which concentrate upon the euphausiids and copepods .
4 Other measures were unfortunately not undertaken seriously ; unlike better health provision they impinged directly upon the political and economic interests of dominant classes or groups .
5 Partnership arrangements between a college and a company or companies might encompass a range of activities , including skills-updating courses , supervisory management and intensive language tuition for example , which fall outside the scope of this chapter because they do not impact directly upon the 16–19 age group .
6 It is a principle of limited government based on the ideas that what was required was ‘ a properly equilibrated political system in which power was checked by power in such a way that neither the violent urges of kings , nor the arbitrariness of legislatures could impinge directly upon the individual ’ .
7 This provides for service , directly upon the addressee and without the use of any form of compulsion , by consular agents and also for the use of the indirect consular channel , service being effected in France through the procureur de la République within whose area the addressee was to be found , and in England through the Senior Master of the Supreme Court .
8 This was given practical effect through the Court 's warning that in implementing the duty of non-recognition , States should not refuse to apply multilateral treaties where the adverse consequences of non-performance would fall directly upon the people .
9 According to Planck 's equation [ 1 ] the quantity of energy depended directly upon the frequency .
10 The third again focuses directly upon the child but we may sometimes ask ourselves whether the dissonance between child and parents , or child and society at large , is mutual rather than child-centred .
11 Magnesium salts of stronger acids , such as the sulphate , chloride , or nitrite , normally grouped under permanent hardness , are removed in the same way to give a precipitate of the hydroxide , i.e. : unc Calcium salts produced in this way , and also those occurring naturally , can be removed by treatment with sodium carbonate , e.g. : unc The costs of the process depend directly upon the temporary and permanent hardness of the water and upon the relative amounts of calcium and magnesium compounds that are present .
12 It meant that manufacturers no longer needed to seek their power where there was fast-running water , especially in the higher reaches of lonely dales , but found it near the canals which brought coal to them cheaply , or directly upon the coalfields themselves .
13 But it was only because much , too , bore very directly upon the most urgent domestic questions that it made an impact at home .
14 If you know that there is no case bearing directly upon the problem , say so .
15 It has been suggested that the decision would have been more convincing had the court focused directly upon the principles of proportionality and legal certainty : the withdrawal of the licence was a disproportionate method of achieving the council 's aims , coupled with the idea that there should be no punishment without breach of an established law .
16 This new layout could not be dated precisely within the later first or early second century , though it may well have followed directly upon the final levelling of the military ditches , dated on pottery evidence to the late Flavian period .
17 Painted directly upon the wall , it takes up almost the entire pub .
18 The burden of implementing papal decisions and the decisions of councils fell directly upon the bishops .
19 Openings were either spanned by a semi-circular arch which rested directly upon the capitals , without entablature , or by a lintel .
20 Unfortunately , as elsewhere in the tenth and eleventh centuries , the Russians followed Byzantine building methods closely in , for example , laying the tiled roofs directly upon the vaults .
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