Example sentences of "upon [art] [noun sg] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far , the case discussed in this book for the extended use of the industrial co-operative as a form of organisation for production or provision has stood primarily upon the proposition that it is an expression of authentic industrial democracy , that such an extension would help to fill a debilitating gap in the practice in the United Kingdom of western liberal principles , to mend what Bertrand Russell calls ‘ this disruption of democracy from within' . |
| 2 | Arthur Marwick , for example , while agreeing that the evacuation revelations aroused a new sense of social concern ‘ among an articulate few ’ , nevertheless casts doubt upon the idea that it suddenly dispelled middle-class prejudices about there being a feckless and dirty section of the working class . |
| 3 | In the morass of detail Mills brings forward to describe his ‘ power elite ’ , it is easy to ignore this fundamental assumption which precedes his empirical work : ‘ In so far as the power elite is composed of men of similar origin and education , in so far as their careers and their styles of life are similar , there are psychological and social bases for their unity , resting upon the fact that they are of similar social type and leading to the fact of their easy intermingling ’ . |
| 4 | It is resting upon the fact that he completely fails to see the originality in the correlation between basis and superstructure under the reign of the proletarian dictatorship . |
| 5 | The use of readmission rates as an indicator of outcome rests upon the assumption that they may be used as a proxy for morbidity resultant from poor clinical care . |
| 6 | The same holds for metaphor ( ‘ Queen Victoria was made of iron ’ ) and irony and sarcasm ( ‘ I love it when you sing out of key all the time ’ ) , which depend upon the assumption that they will be interpreted as deliberate floutings of the charge to ‘ Be true ’ rather than as untruths intended to deceive . |
| 7 | In essence the courts ' control over the conditions of jurisdiction is premised upon the assumption that they are thereby effectuating the will of Parliament ; they are ensuring that the tribunal or authority remains within the boundaries of what Parliament intended it to examine by ensuring that those conditions are present . |
| 8 | The letters of 12 June and 15 September 1986 did not say that Woolwich was offering the money to the revenue upon the condition that it would be repaid if ultimately found , in the pending litigation , not to be due . |
| 9 | Secondly , the gift must be made upon the condition that it is to be absolute and perfected only on the donor 's death , being revocable until that event occurs and ineffective if it does not . |
| 10 | Accordingly , their Lordships did not agree with counsel that if the jury convicted the first appellant upon the basis that he was guilty as actor , they necessarily should have acquitted the second appellant . |
| 11 | Although during the 1987 congressional inquiry into the affair Poindexter shielded Reagan ( then President ) from any responsibility for the operation , his defence strategy against the criminal charges rested upon the claim that he had believed that he was acting with the President 's authority . |
| 12 | In 1340 the clergy were careful to concede a tenth only upon the understanding that they would be exempt from the ninth then being discussed in parliament . |
| 13 | Is your guilt based upon a belief that you should not have fun , or that your body is not your own , or that you are not allowed to feel angry , or assert your own needs ? |