Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb -s] upon a " in BNC.

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1 The other type of attachment relies upon a spring , which needs to be pressed in order to allow the loop of the collar to be secured .
2 The process of rehearsal draws upon a training which often reaches back into the singer 's boyhood , which provides him with the directed quickness of mind and the vocal stamina he requires , and which ensures that the choral results are generally quite passable and are sometimes excellent despite the constant absences , deputizations , hirings and firings that always threaten the homogeneity of what can be achieved .
3 The form which is taken by international assistance in the service of process depends upon a number of , necessarily interrelated , factors .
4 The speaker 's seif-image ( or rather , self-justification ) of reasonableness depends upon a contrast with what is unreasonable .
5 The issue of delay depends upon a comparison of like with like .
6 I think that this kind of objection rests upon a false way of thinking about the information that the input system provides .
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