Example sentences of "now [verb] upon the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What happens now depends upon the resolution of two issues . |
| 2 | Veterans who returned to low-paid jobs without occupational pension schemes now depend upon the state retirement pension . |
| 3 | In the tense silence which followed this remark , all eyes now turned upon the couple who had been fetched from their bedroom ; the couple who had decided that any further diet of delightful architecture would have amounted to a sort of cultural force-feeding . |
| 4 | Social security contributions are now imposed upon the employer equal to the vertical distance D1D2 , reducing labour demand to D1 . |
| 5 | The timber is now lying upon the bench , against the stop ; the face side is uppermost , and the face edge is towards us , as it should be . |
| 6 | And could I now call upon the Chair of the standing orders committee , John , to move standing orders committee report number one . |
| 7 | The onus now lay upon the architect to come up with new designs and new ideas with which to counter the rapidly growing effectiveness of artillery aided , from about 1430 , by the reversion to the use of cast-iron shot which , although more expensive than stone shot , did not shatter on impact , could be made more uniformly in greater quantities ( the making of stone shot was , to say the least , laborious ) and in smaller calibre , thereby increasing efficiency by reducing the need for very large and unwieldy cannon . |
| 8 | Why has this question now come upon the scene ? |