preposition
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
border on/upon obsession (= be almost as extreme as an obsession )
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Sometimes his tidiness bordered on obsession.
bring discredit on/upon/to sb/sth
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The behaviour of fans has brought discredit on English football.
had...thrust upon
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He had marriage thrust upon him.
layer upon layer of (= many layers of clothing )
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He pulled off layer upon layer of clothing .
looked upon with disfavour
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The job creation programme is looked upon with disfavour by the local community.
row upon row (= many rows )
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row upon row of shelves stacked with books
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(Upon) my word!
be borne in on/upon sb
be dependent on/upon sth
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Your success is dependent on how hard you work.
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By no means all priests were dependent on income from the Church.
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For instance, some foodstuffs manufacturers are dependent on their supplies of edible oils.
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Rice cultivation, which is dependent on the vagaries of weather and on complex systems of irrigation, requires cooperative labor.
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The activity of duodenitis was dependent on the neutrophilic infiltration.
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The actor is dependent on the stimulus of other faces and voices.
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The benefits that consumers will enjoy are dependent on unbridled competition within the industry; government intervention will only hinder its evolution.
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What she doesn t see is that her small-business world is dependent on a bigger economic system.
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Women are said to have been created as equal to men yet are functionally to be dependent on men.
be founded on/upon sth
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Racism is not founded on rational thought, but on fear.
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The castle is founded on solid rock.
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The Soviet Union was originally founded on Socialism.
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After all, they are founded on previous experience.
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All grandeur, all power, all discipline are founded on the soldier.
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During these years race became the cultural flashpoint, and most political careers were founded on a rhetoric of purity and exclusion.
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In a functional sense, spillover was founded on the belief that contemporary economies were based upon a tangle of interrelated sectors.
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The economy of the vale was founded on livestock.
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The original Stoves company was founded on 14 February 1920.
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While Aristotle's scheme is founded on normative grounds, Finer's scheme is derived empirically.
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You could say it was founded on chili.
be intent on/upon (doing) sth
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Abortion foes are intent on changing the laws allowing abortion.
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And as they were intent on their work, Bill was getting hysterical, calling his agent.
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Even then, too, Alvin was intent on displaying the male dancer in all his vitality.
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His best work is done far in advance, and he is intent on broadening his base.
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If his opponents were intent on overplaying their hand, it could only improve his position with the cardinal.
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Mr Mieno is still talking and acting tough because he is intent on bursting the speculative bubbles in shares and property.
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No-one spoke, everyone was intent on listening.
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The company is intent upon shielding them from the prying eyes of reporters.
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The staff at Howard were intent on giving their students the best they could offer.
be predicated on/upon sth
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The company's $1.6 million budget was predicated on selling 10,000 subscriptions.
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A text's value rests partly then on the demand for it, and that demand is predicated on previous demand.
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And yet the redemption of humanity is predicated on this failure.
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Babylonian science was predicated on a tradition of astronomical record-keeping for strictly religious purposes.
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It could not be; it was predicated on the business rate.
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It was predicated on a quack cure called powder of sympathy.
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Much environmental prediction is predicated upon a logical positivist or Newtonian deterministic basis.
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Plans for video on-demand and other applications are predicated on imaginary customers who are expected to buy multimedia services.
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Samuel Richardson's Pamela is predicated on the need for a servant to resist the master's will in some things.
be premised on/upon sth
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However, this is premised upon a notion of their independence.
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It was premised on a qualitative shift in the intellectual organization of medical concepts.
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This is premised on modern of visual communication which draw upon linguistics and, in particular, psychoanalysis.
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Traditional economic analysis is premised on the assumption that more is better.
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Ullman's work is premised on the phenomenological fact that human beings can experience apparent movement in several different ways.
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Where modernist consumption was premised on mass forms, postmodernist consumption is premised on niches.
bless my soul/upon my soul
bring sth to bear (on/upon sth)
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Campaigning can bring political influences to bear on the students that might affect them detrimentally. 3.
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Employers brought maximum pressure to bear on workers in order to restore order: recalcitrant strikers faced lock-outs.
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He brought undue pressure to bear on his parents by giving them an entirely misleading account of the documents.
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He could not bring his mind to bear on the distant world her handwriting suggested.
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He resisted the pain, tried to bring the weapon to bear.
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Mummy and I will bring our guns to bear.
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Short of a hostile military intervention in Kosovo, there are other ways of bringing outside power to bear.
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Workers have their own organisations which can bring pressure to bear on governments and make demands on the state.
draw on/upon sth
feast on/upon sth
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Hundreds of people, young and old, feasted on free hot dogs, hamburgers, and ice cream..
hard upon/on sth
it is incumbent upon/on sb to do sth
on/upon (the) production of sth
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Based on the production of this absorption peak, it is possible to quantitate serum proteins by an ultraviolet-light technique.
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Employees are paid bonuses based upon the production of their work group over a predetermined standard.
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Health board workers can withdraw up to £100 each on production of their pay slip, their bank card and identification.
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Modern economies depend at least as much upon women's consumption of goods and services as upon production of any kind.
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Needless to say, the police were already familiar with the thief and absolutely delighted upon the production of such unambiguous evidence.
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The newly-christened Omnicoach will concentrate on the production of semi-ambulance vehicles.
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There are also a number of projects which concentrate on the production of materials and resources for educational use.
once upon a time
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Once upon a time children did what they were told.
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After all, it is once upon a time.
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However, once upon a time the mathematician was a child too.
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I'd have done anything for you once upon a time.
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One could spend a lifetime learning a small range of mountains, and once upon a time people did.
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Perhaps objects like these had been fashionable in churches once upon a time, but no longer, hence the attic.
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She might never have ironed shirts, but she too had once upon a time brought Jacob little surprises, little presents.
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There was, once upon a time, another book from which this kind of scientific certainty was derived.
presume on/upon sb's friendship/generosity etc
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I will not presume upon your friendship any further.
set on/upon/against (doing) sth
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A pail of cold water for washing was set on the floor so that performers had to bend over to use it.
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Lance Rees was set on as he passed the sorting office in Withernsea, Humberside, on his way to school.
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Manuel Perez's brother left after his house was set on fire.
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Margarett set upon the package, tearing at its wrappings, only to find beneath it another carton, then still another.
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Once again I detect a false opposition: an idealised reality set against the alien forces of darkness.
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They were hacked to death and their bodies set on fire.
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Time limits may be set on how long employees can leave their goods in storage and receive reimbursement from their employers.
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Were the limits set on their radiation exposure acceptable?
take it upon/on yourself to do sth
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He didn't dare take it upon himself to enlighten her further.
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He might be unwelcome, but he had taken it upon himself to come on over the first moment he heard.
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If we want our children to know certain information, perhaps we should take it upon ourselves to teach them.
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It is a dangerous path, however, when the executive takes it upon itself to qualify Parliament's decisions.
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Many problems can be prevented if you take it upon yourself to keep the lines of communication clear.
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Pius took it upon himself to proclaim the Dogma of the Assumption.
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Sir Herbert Morgan took it upon himself to act as chairman of an unofficial committee to help realise the three-year project.
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So I took it upon myself to tell her, old nosey-parker that I am.
turn upon sb
turn upon sth
wouldn't wish sth on/upon sb
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James says he wouldn't wish a military career on anyone.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A dark cloud descended upon the valley.
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Her friends look upon her with envy.