Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long opening movement of the Sixth Symphony is customarily played either as though all the cares of humanity were resting heavily upon its shoulders ( try the Previn/LSO on EMI ) or as a nerve-jangling protest against Stalinish suppression ( Moscow PO/Kondrashin on Chant du Monde ) . |
| 2 | The shame , the guilt , the remorse were weighing heavily upon the parents . |
| 3 | He had failed to win the emperor 's attention , and his chronic money problems were weighing heavily upon him . |
| 4 | Thus John Locke distinguishes between ‘ reflection ’ , the mind 's turning inward upon itself , and ‘ sensation ’ , the source of our ideas of external objects . |
| 5 | It seemed to Jehan as he watched Alexei 's face that the offworlder was reflecting inwardly upon the sum of his own knowledge , testing it against his belief in what was recorded in the books controlled by the Sechem . |
| 6 | Time was weighing heavily upon him . |
| 7 | It was following immediately upon this that , on 10 September , Leslie wrote to me excitedly about a small enemy landing — a fact that was finally denied , and explained by Attlee in Parliament only in 1946 . |