Example sentences of "upon [art] [noun sg] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The judgment of the House of Lords rested upon the principle that municipal courts are not competent to adjudicate upon transactions entered into by independent sovereign States on the international plane , and did not directly address the issues raised by Westland . |
| 2 | This is based upon the proposition that some people require lesser levels of care than that provided in the care setting in which they are located , and that it is more cost-effective for them to be supported in a less dependent setting ( Challis , 1992c ) . |
| 3 | Divorce of this kind was first introduced into English law by the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 , and from then until 1969 it was based upon the doctrine that some matrimonial offence ( such as adultery or desertion ) must have been committed by one spouse before the other could obtain relief . |
| 4 | This is based upon the knowledge that Northern business is now genuinely far more broadly based and will be able to respond quickly and positively to future improvements in both national and international economies . ’ |
| 5 | 2 A humorous parody of this kind of journalism : Nut Bolts — Screws , Washer where the play is upon the fact that all four words are members of the same collocation . |
| 6 | Secondly it will remain the case that once a species has been judicially classified as dangerous , then , subject to the doctrine of precedent , there is no room for distinctions based upon the fact that some variants or individual animals within the species may not in fact be at all dangerous : in other words , the law continues to ignore ‘ the world of difference between the wild elephant in the jungle and the trained elephant in the circus … [ which ] is in fact no more dangerous than a cow . ’ |
| 7 | When the S. African delegate at the United Nations declared that ‘ any policy based upon the assumption that one race is superior to another purely on the ground of colour is indefensible ’ , the ‘ Guardian ’ commented ; ‘ Is this an abandonment of the fundamental theoretical basis of the State ? ’ |
| 8 | This is based upon the belief that older people are treated with greater compassion now than ever before . |
| 9 | Any reconciliation can not be achieved upon the basis that some judges preferred more limited and some more extensive review . |
| 10 | While this may provide some justification for ensuring that the decision-maker indicates what was the factual basis for his action , we should be extremely wary of developing review of facts upon the premise that all such material could or should be considered . |
| 11 | The position is different where the employer advances to a plaintiff who is incapacitated from work a sum equivalent to his usual earnings upon the understanding that such sum should be repaid to the employer in the event of the plaintiff successfully suing the author of his injuries . |
| 12 | VFM auditing is not new , and in many ways Britain is now only explicitly upon a path that other countries have already followed . |