Example sentences of "[be] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rock is almost like gabbro , rough and abrasive , with little flat fingerholds and quartz-gemmed pockets everywhere across it — small enough , far enough apart , to keep you thinking and working , diffident enough never to announce their presence till you 're upon them . |
| 2 | It is a call to us , too , to leave behind us the false self of our own independence , to celebrate how wholly dependent we are upon God . |
| 3 | What matters most are the attitudes of teachers to parents and parents to teachers — whether there is genuine mutual respect , whether the parents understand what the schools are doing for individual children and ( whether ) teachers realise how dependent they are upon parental support . |
| 4 | There is , so far as I know , no solid evidence for any of these beliefs ; nor is there much to show that the family is , in fact , changing in its significance within society or in its psychological implications for child upbringing , albeit that pressures upon it are increasing just as they are upon individuals by reason of the increasing complication and tempo of life in Western society . |
| 5 | 1811 " It being known to this Meeting that two Parochial Schoolhouses are upon the way of being finished at Kilchoman and Kilmeny , and that it is proposed to build a third schoolhouse at Kildalton … stent themselves in the sum of £70 . " |
| 6 | My letter to your Honour of the fifth January last being writ before the great events that are upon us now , would lead your judgement astray as to our progress in these fair Isles , for mighty Saturn threw his sinister shadow heavy upon me at that juncture and many untoward and grievous events had combined to cloud my spirits that now are light as a summer breeze again . |
| 7 | Some say it is they who are bringing about these times that are upon us . |
| 8 | What times are upon us ! ’ |
| 9 | Tight quotas are also imposed on Hungary 's steel and textile exports , as they are upon those of the other Višegrad states . |
| 10 | They are upon that account the greatest of all improvements . |
| 11 | All eyes are upon her , apparently , when they are not cooing over her daughter . |
| 12 | Of course at the moment environmental health is very much an in subject , especially with the Environmental Protection Act of 1990 , and your profession has the marvellous opportunity of seeking to safeguard the environment and also the threats that we have at the present time which are upon the environment , from so many sources but , most of all particularly in the eastern counties , from the population explosion , which we here in South Cambridgeshire know quite a bit about . |
| 13 | Had not the echo of my prayer been upon me still , I should not have been ready . |
| 14 | ‘ The finest views are from the bottom , and at some places a little above it , but few dare venture to the bottom particularly those females whose pedestrian excursions have chiefly been upon level ground ; nay the male sex are often appalled with a view of the way , and many a Bond-street gentleman , in his stable costume , would rather hazard his neck four-in-hand , than risk it by having his arms precariously supported by the twigs and branches he may find in his way to the gulph below . ’ |
| 15 | But , in common with most other work in this area , the majority of the effort has been upon expert systems . |
| 16 | That man was John Furie Zacharias , known universally as Gentle , and he had a reputation as a lover that would have driven Estabrook from the field had that strange certainty not been upon him . |
| 17 | The main focus of work concerned with mental health in later life has been upon dementia ; there has been much less empirical study of the affective disorders , depression and anxiety . |
| 18 | Typically , the emphasis has been upon the problem of monitoring output/standards while reducing financial inputs in real terms . |
| 19 | They might have been upon the surface of the moon . |
| 20 | Although the historical approach to physical geography had prompted an approach often styled as denudation chronology , the emphasis had been upon the sequence of denudation rather than upon chronology strictly connoted as the science of computing dates . |
| 21 | Perhaps emphasis at this level has been upon soil evolution rather than upon soil dynamics , which has been treated in relation to land capability . |
| 22 | Rather than classes on directly social or political topics , the emphasis has been upon issue-based provision , in the first instance , as a means to develop work , where appropriate and possible , with a broader scope ( hence courses in Housing , Welfare Rights , Health Care , etc. rather than in Social Policy , Politics etc . ) . |
| 23 | Secondly , whereas the predominant concern in the care of elderly people has been the prevention of an unnecessary move into institutional care , in mental health care much of the focus has been upon the closure of long-stay hospitals . |
| 24 | The focus of most research into residence abroad has been upon the improvement of linguistic skills whereas this project is to investigate the contribution residence makers to students ' perceptions of the way of life in another country . |
| 25 | Tho' I highly respect Mrs. Leapor 's character from the account you give of it , yet as she was absolutely unknown to myself , and I am but little acquainted even with her writings , I am upon this account as well as many others , entirely unfit for such an undertaking as you propose . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | Winstanley , however , had full confidence and proclaimed his greatest wish was to be upon the rock during ‘ … the greatest storm that ever was ’ . |
| 30 | 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 . |