Example sentences of "now [verb] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one child I know caught his parents prowling around with stockings at the dead of night and is now impressing upon his little pals that the whole thing is a con . |
| 2 | Few Princes had ever made the journey to see the sight that Francis now gazed upon ; few Princes , and hardly any of lesser rank . |
| 3 | One known and accepted fact provided the argumentative weight he had needed , and could now build upon . |
| 4 | The Dutch sellers now relied upon a clause ( clause 13 ) in their contract of sale with the buyers and claimed therefore to have proprietary rights entitling them to have priority over the buyers ' other creditors . |
| 5 | For we still believe that our femaleness is a biological entity ; but it is this biology that a century ago wished to remove our clitoris and that continues now to impose upon us a desire that only functions in passive reaction to the actions of men , and that is as a result based in narcissism and masochism . |
| 6 | After that he is more specific , and begins to refer to Caesar in this context , saying that himself and Brutus were born equal to Caesar in health and intelligence , yet Caesar is now looked upon as a man of such importance . |
| 7 | The renewal of one production cycle now depends upon the results of the previous one , i.e. , to start this production cycle there must be produced means of production of the correct quantity and quality with which to repeat the process . |
| 8 | What happens now depends upon the resolution of two issues . |
| 9 | Veterans who returned to low-paid jobs without occupational pension schemes now depend upon the state retirement pension . |
| 10 | In East Germany , in contrast , the curators and other employees now depend upon private trustees from the West for their livelihood . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They hereby resolve to use every mean in their power to Detect the Deserters now presented upon a list … " |
| 13 | Social security contributions are now imposed upon the employer equal to the vertical distance D1D2 , reducing labour demand to D1 . |
| 14 | Paisley about faced and led the parade around the block so that it now came upon Fisherwick Place from the west . |
| 15 | Yet , on the day when Harriet saw her off on Penzance station she was afraid that the new way of life Liza had now embarked upon would prove very far removed from that which she had spent under the dedicated care of her former headmistress , Miss Everett . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The trouble about that is , it 's now enforced upon us and that 's official target , we have to set priority of fire certificates because we need the money , bluntly , otherwise we have to find it elsewhere , so we give them a priority that they would n't otherwise have . |
| 18 | On March 26 , 1952 , they signed the agreement now sued upon which has three clauses : ‘ ( 1 ) the husband will pay to the wife for her support and maintenance a weekly sum of One Pound Ten Shillings to be paid every four weeks during the joint lives of the parties so long as the wife shall lead a chaste life the first payment hereunder to be made on the Fifteenth day of April 1952. ( 2 ) The wife will out of the said weekly sum or otherwise support and maintain herself and will indemnify the husband against all debts to be incurred by her and will not in any way at any time hereafter pledge the husband 's credit . |
| 19 | Most of what I say here is now agreed upon by other scientists working in this field , though this acceptance has come only fairly recently . |
| 20 | Many American academics now look upon strike violence as an occasional , rather than endemic , feature of American industry ( Rubenstein , 1989:322 ) . |
| 21 | Even the judicial system in the Dutch republic , in so many ways still among the most advanced parts of Europe , suffered from the lack of a powerful monarchy able to press effectively for the sort of reform which rulers in many less developed areas were now forcing upon their subjects . |
| 22 | All might now depend upon that interfering , extremely lucky , English clerk . |
| 23 | There were no rows upon rows of mean , diseased little cottages now to press upon her and worry her . |
| 24 | It is a big job , it does n't just mean changing the colour of your stock , er , and it 's difficult to think of erm , er , Alan wearing the purple so to say , but erm , I 'm sure he , I went to his consecration in York about two months ago , it was a very moving and er , enjoyable occasion and he 's erm , er , now entered upon that inheritance . |
| 25 | These diets are now frowned upon by many medical experts because of their low fibre content . |
| 26 | Slowly she discovered tricks of the trade such as weighting her hems so that they did n't blow up in a breeze and she gradually acquired a coterie of designers , including Catherine Walker , David Sassoon and Victor Edelstein , whom she now relies upon . |
| 27 | The right of national self-determination in Europe now rested upon the emphatic denial of that right to all lesser peoples . |
| 28 | Now those were the issues that were leading us sir had left us to make an objection to this structure plan that we thought erm the detailed papers on it were sent to the county in our in our objections , they led us to by a series of calculations to come to the view that around about a hundred hectares would be more appropriate for Harrogate , this is in addition to its Greater York supplement , erm than what is now settled upon which is sixty hectares . |
| 29 | And could I now call upon the Chair of the standing orders committee , John , to move standing orders committee report number one . |
| 30 | I 'll now call upon David of Coopers and Lybrand to read the report of the auditors to the members . |