Example sentences of "be upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | And these words , that I command thee this day , shall be upon thy heart ; and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children , and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house , and when thou walkest by the way , and when thou liest down , and when thou riseth up . |
| 2 | The declared results remind us more readily of the spoiled world of Genesis 3 than those of Genesis 1 or 2 : ‘ The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth , and upon every bird of the air , upon everything that creeps on the ground , and all fish of the sea ’ ( 9.2 ) . |
| 3 | The relics under the altar took the place intended for the bishop 's burial , so that ‘ He who suffered for all might be upon the altar , and those redeemed by his passion beneath it ’ . |
| 4 | Winstanley , however , had full confidence and proclaimed his greatest wish was to be upon the rock during ‘ … the greatest storm that ever was ’ . |
| 5 | The artillery-piece beside the building fired for what would be the last time ; the enemy would be upon them before the gunners could reload . |
| 6 | We hope you will never suffer from them ; but , never cease to be upon your guard . |
| 7 | As harvest time was drawing to a close and autumn would soon be upon them , Tamar admitted what she had tried to deny for the last few weeks . |
| 8 | If he ended up with a taste for feudalism and aristocracy it was because he believed that the old paternalism was better than the inhuman gulf between ‘ classes ’ — ‘ One would wish to see the rich mingle with the poor as much as may be upon a footing of fraternal equality . ’ |
| 9 | The enemy army could be upon them at any time , in however disorganised a state . |
| 10 | The focus will be upon systems of morality that vary greatly in their images of manhood and styles of manhood . |
| 11 | Here the emphasis must be upon the contexts in which the word or phrase is acquired . |
| 12 | In a little over half a year 's time , the anniversary of the Reconciliation would be upon the Imajica . |
| 13 | In any case , the Shetland spring would soon be upon us — and I would n't want to miss it . |
| 14 | The few managers of nursing who were around in the late 1960s , early 1970s will not wish to relive those experiences and yet unless alternative solutions are found quickly , the problem which prevailed then will soon be upon us again . |
| 15 | The initial focus will be upon the notion of structural change that is employed in post-industrial arguments , which , it should be noted , is taken to represent not merely a change in the direction of the economy , but a shift from one type of economic system to another . |
| 16 | Can you manage to stick to a weight-loss programme when you have defined a time period , i.e. the three weeks until your holiday , or if you have to fit into certain clothes for a special occasion which is soon to be upon you , and do you generally find it difficult to stick to a diet for a longer period |
| 17 | Where he is the occupier of premises in or on which the chattels ( not attached to the premises ) are found and , before the finding ‘ he has manifested an intention to exercise control over the [ premises ] and the things which may be upon it or in it ’ . |
| 18 | " They therefore do appoint that a merket shall be weekly held upon the open Street of Bowmore upon friday , the 1st. to be upon friday the 5th. day of November next , and to be from thenseforth contiunes weekly thereafter … and that there may be no fraud in the weight or measure of the different Vivers and commodities Brought for Sale to this weekly merket , the Meeting do hereby appoint Archd . |
| 19 | And Tutilo was indeed a brother , and at large that night , and expected to be upon that path . |
| 20 | Scarlet felt foolish and rather jealous : she knew that if she so much as failed to pay a parking ticket , the full force of the law would be upon her like a ton of bricks . |
| 21 | ‘ The blessings of the land be upon you . |
| 22 | Meanwhile work continued at Tilberthwaite and two new tunnels were in hand one said to be upon the South Lode , the other in a lode cut in a rooting slate quarry , probably Penny Rigg . |
| 23 | My focus here will be upon those issues which have arisen because of the challenges being made to pre-existing ideas about : |
| 24 | I therefore wrote to express the hope that I had not appeared to expect him to intervene ; that I did not necessarily disagree with what he said ; and that my underlying feeling was that the Baldwin government , though apparently trying to get rid of a bad king , might damage the monarchy at a time when a great international crisis seemed to be upon us . |
| 25 | The focus of the study , therefore , will be upon ten such groups ( some eighty to one hundred senior executives in all ) and will be directly concerned with what such people do in what kinds of context and what kinds of competency they display . |
| 26 | Our focus will be upon key issues of criminal justice . |
| 27 | The focus will be upon the routine ways in which the majority of complaints are dealt with inside these organizations , although more formal procedures will also be looked at . |
| 28 | If you 've seen it somewhere then can you call a reward of twenty five pounds offered to the person who can advise where the car is payment will be upon receipt of retrieving the vehicle . |
| 29 | The burden of proof should be upon the employer to demonstrate undue hardship . |
| 30 | Here the focus will be upon three of the so called dynamic effects , ( these factors are also discussed in Chapter 2 ) . |