Example sentences of "be [adv] upon " in BNC.
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| 31 | Does he realise that his answer was not only factually wrong , but betrayed a depressing complacency in the face of the scale of the homes repossession crisis which is now upon us ? |
| 32 | So — can I please appeal to those of you ( teachers and class members ) who are having difficulty in deciding just what fund raising ideas to put into operation — 1985 is now upon us — and — Time Flies ’ . |
| 33 | Now , is it something that 's taken farmers by surprise , because we 're , the Poll Tax is now upon us as it were , er is it something that they were n't expecting to happen ? |
| 34 | In this study of Charlemagne , the emphasis is mainly upon two major aspects of his life : his military campaigns and his development of a unified European culture . |
| 35 | Some species , such as hares and young antelope , will stay stock-still in a crouching posture until the predator is almost upon them , before bolting . |
| 36 | The English cricket season is almost upon us , and things will never again be the same . |
| 37 | The English cricket season is almost upon us , and things will never again be the same . |
| 38 | A new year is almost upon us . |
| 39 | The Varsity showdown is almost upon them . |
| 40 | Whichever defence is relied upon , the onus of proof is firmly upon the defendant to prove both ingredients . |
| 41 | But our focus is primarily upon people , not places as such ; the male survivors of the next generation of Titfords succeeded in wrenching themselves away from the town which had been home for their ancestors for over a hundred and seventy years — and we have no choice but to follow them . |
| 42 | Engels ' emphasis is primarily upon ‘ the piles of debris , the refuse , filth and offal from the courts ’ , coupled with derelict , overcrowded conditions , each house ‘ packed close behind its neighbour … all black , smoky , crumbling , ancient , with broken panes and window-frames ’ . |
| 43 | The emphasis is primarily upon river and slope processes … |
| 44 | Now it 's actually upon us and a decision has to be made … ’ |
| 45 | The focus is therefore upon the services provided , but with an allowance made at the end for average housing and personal living costs , in order to make a sensible comparison between people living at home and those in institutions . |
| 46 | Another faithful sign that winter is truly upon us , is when wildlife comes in from the cold . |
| 47 | The emphasis was rather upon providing children with basic skills . |
| 48 | ‘ Reference to the transcript of the judgment in that case however reveals that the decision did not turn on concealment in the shopping bag but was expressly upon the ground that the goods were appropriated when they were taken from the shelves . |
| 49 | Winter was soon upon him . |
| 50 | The afternoon was soon upon us . |
| 51 | I bear you no ill will , for well I found the tables entirely turned upon me , and that I was in far ore danger from you than you were from me for I was just upon resolving to defy all the censures of the world and to make you publicly and openly my wife . " |
| 52 | Tuppe turned a fair coin impersonating babies for TV commercials , but his mind was ever upon higher things . |
| 53 | " There was once upon a time " , he declared in 1901 , " when I was foolish enough to believe that the foreigners were the great curse of the British seamen . |
| 54 | After the minister 's almost tender observation that ‘ the process of forming a humanistic and harmonious world outlook was now upon us ’ , one could only gape as Reesa Greenberg , from Montreal 's Concordia University , delivered an astonishing plea , entirely in earnest , that museums engage a new art audience in shopping malls . |
| 55 | Having once been the protected member of the family , it was now upon him that responsibilities began to fall . |
| 56 | Although emphasis was initially upon recognition of the variety of landscape features , sediments and structures that could be developed under periglacial conditions , the potential subsequently arose of developing a greater knowledge of phases of periglacial landscape development , and in Poland and other countries in Europe this emphasis was clearly evident in research in the 1960s and much of the research was reflected in Periglacial Geomorphology ( Embleton and King , 1975 ) which was one of two books to derive from the earlier Glacial and Periglacial Geomorphology ( Embleton and King , 1968 ) . |
| 57 | The horse was almost upon her and she shut her eyes , the better to see when it had reined to a halt . |
| 58 | He was getting nearer and nearer and was almost upon them . |
| 59 | She clapped her hands over her ears waiting for the water that was almost upon them , aware of the damage it was going to cause . |
| 60 | When he was back at Thorsbury , he had taken to sleeping in the dressing room now that her time was almost upon her . |