Example sentences of "upon [art] [noun] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a number of theories that discuss this relationship and they are generally known as ‘ style theories of leadership ’ where the focus is upon the style that a leader adopts in dealing with others . |
| 2 | This makes the counselling task even more difficult to interpret , but even within this complicated network of family systems , aspects of the wider , extended family unit will still be evident , perhaps comprising a number of separate systems which interact upon the way that the provision of care for older relatives is organized . |
| 3 | However , most new shareholders have only a small stake in the companies in which they have invested , and in reality they may have little influence upon the way that the companies are run ( see , for example , the claims of John Scott pp. 57–62 ) . |
| 4 | The Dene-Metis agreement later foundered upon the requirement that the natives surrender their aboriginal rights to other lands . |
| 5 | Ellis , who was unemployed and living on benefit , hit upon the idea that the girl should go out to work as a prostitute , it was claimed . |
| 6 | Their strategy is based upon the idea that the boss has only a limited amount of sympathy and benefits to go round , and that their herd 's problems should have priority . |
| 7 | Through current vital statistics or special studies conducted in statistically more developed countries it has long been observed and well demonstrated that childbearing patterns , such as maternal age , parity and the interval between consecutive births have a characteristic effect upon the probability that a child will survive infancy and early childhood . |
| 8 | The World Health Organization ( WHO ) collaborative studies in the early 1970s and , later , the World Fertility Survey ( WFS ) also widely documented that , in developing countries , too , maternal age has a considerable effect upon the probability that a child will survive infancy and the age of five years . |
| 9 | The specific form was built upon the notion that the outbreak of violence in Handsworth and Brixton , in particular , was brought about by ‘ drug barons ’ who saw the police attempting to curb their activities and control ‘ their territory ’ . |
| 10 | Significantly , the use of interviews and questionnaires in mass surveys depended upon the notion that the responses offered by respondents about their conditions and experiences were almost as good as the direct observation of the respondents and their lives ; a far greater coverage of the population could be achieved than by using observational methods . |
| 11 | Formality has little bearing upon the materials that the pool is constructed from . |
| 12 | The Public Service Ideal is based upon the realization that the limited set of existing news sources are no longer pamphlets distributed in the market-place , they are the market-place itself ; no longer speakers in a public debate , but the platform on which that debate must take place . |
| 13 | The second purpose is to build upon the work that the investigators and others have previously done and to investigate a number of specific theoretical issues . |
| 14 | The securities scandal , which broke in June [ see p. 38292 ] , centred upon the discovery that the Nomura , Nikko , Daiwa and Yamaichi securities houses had made compensation payments to important clients who had suffered financial losses as a result of taking their investment advice . |
| 15 | I rehearse these arguments not in an attempt to settle them but for the purpose of casting doubt upon the thesis that the performance of the economy is at the crux of the Government 's difficulties . |
| 16 | The real value of the results actually achieved has been a most gratifying surprise to everyone concerned , and it is easy , after the event , to reflect wisely upon the fact that a large percentage of the men must have served a long and painful apprenticeship , whilst on Military Service , to the art of transforming swamps into ‘ better 'oles ’ . |
| 17 | The differences rest upon the fact that an organisation 's actions are limited by its constituent treaty . |
| 18 | He had acutely put his finger upon the fact that the new tools of mass culture , television and radio , exposed the old ways of the royal household to a merciless stare from which they did not emerge well . |
| 19 | Bagehot 's magic depends upon the fact that the common man or woman remains just that ; he or she can not , except by the most exceptional marriage , become part of the royal family . |
| 20 | Mr. Gardiner argued that this case supported the Woolwich principle in as much as recovery depended solely upon the fact that the corporation had been placed by statute in a position of authority . |
| 21 | He relied upon the fact that the evidence of Price , although ( if accepted ) it implicated the applicant in the commission of the relevant offences , did not provide any evidence that the applicant was himself in Sweden at the time when those offences were committed . |
| 22 | The wider significance of the community power debate does not rest upon the fact that the conclusions of the community power studies can be applied directly , sometimes by the authors of community power studies themselves , to other levels of government . |
| 23 | In that case their Lordships placed much emphasis upon the fact that the local authority had a virtual mandate to retain certain grammar schools in the area . |
| 24 | But J. S. Middleton , the Labour Party General Secretary , had set out in a series of published letters to Harry Pollitt , the Communist secretary , the arguments against allowing Communist affiliation : they were largely based upon the fact that the Communists adhered to the Communist International , based in Moscow , and were bound to obey its orders . |
| 25 | The practical utility of the rule depends to some extent upon the means that the courts are entitled to employ in order to ascertain what mischief the Act was intended to remedy . |
| 26 | The move brought into the open the so-called " Saddamgate " scandal , the rumbling allegations of which centred upon the charge that the Bush government had concealed that extent of its illegal support for Saddam Hussein prior to August 1990 . |
| 27 | In T. R. Fyvel 's The Insecure Offenders , which first appeared in 1961 and which represented the most systematic and unsensationalised attempt to come to terms with the youth problem , the argument pivoted upon the assumption that the impact of ‘ affluence ’ had conspired to produce a novel disorientation among the nation 's youth . |
| 28 | ‘ The right to recovery after a demand colore officii rests upon the assumption that the position occupied by the defendant creates virtual compulsion , where it conveys to the person paying , the knowledge or belief that he has no means of escape from payment strictly so called if he wishes to avert injury to or deprivation of some right to which he is entitled without such payment . |
| 29 | Although it would have avoided the possibility of argument had Winchester made the application , I am content to proceed upon the assumption that the applicant has a sufficient interest . |
| 30 | I should make clear that this analysis is not predicated upon the assumption that the courts have always attempted to apply the jurisdictional/non-jurisdictional distinction according to some logical criteria . |