Example sentences of "[adv] upon [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Printers and typesetting houses have been embracing new methods for the last 15 years or so and now rely entirely upon them . |
| 2 | The stiffness of the monoblock boot depends entirely upon it , and injection-moulded plastic midsoles of a thickness suited to the size of boot are now commonplace . |
| 3 | That he could not command the bench of bishops into a unified stance on political affairs reflects less upon him than upon the variety of episcopal origins and experience : royal clerks may have been increasing among the bishops , but it is a mistake to regard them as if they were all identical in background and outlook . |
| 4 | Presently they were ready at the place of meeting , and the gate was opened which was nearest the gardens where the Moors had entered , without order ; and they fell fiercely upon them , smiting and slaying . |
| 5 | In the second chapter of Philippians , a little bit before where we read , Paul 's describing the seriousness of the illness of his friend and companion , Ep Aproditus And even although he had written that the thought of his own death caused him no qualms whatever , when he was writing about his friend , Aproditus being at the point of death , he said , But God had mercy on him and not only upon him but on me also lest I should have sorrow on sorrow . |
| 6 | ‘ He had long been in a bad state of health , which he took no care to repair but on the contrary lived in such a manner as greatly promoted the disorders he had had long upon him , this brought on the Flux which put a period to his life ’ ( Cook ) . |
| 7 | So brief is the note , and couched in such general terms , that it is difficult to base much upon it , but worth noting are the facts that he clearly saw his choice as lying in the normal way between tedris and kaza , which he calls two paths or careers ; that a signal disadvantage of teaching was that it was unremunerative ; and , not least , that , unable to contemplate either alternative , he was able to find a home for his talents and interests in the bureaucracy . |
| 8 | These exultations , these hymns , come so suddenly upon me like unbidden genii bearing gifts that no mortals have ever seen before . |
| 9 | The burden is now suddenly upon them . |
| 10 | ‘ For man knoweth not his time ; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net , and as the birds that are caught in the snare ; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time , when it falleth suddenly upon them . ’ |
| 11 | At a time of ‘ awful crisis , when constitutions of kingdoms are on the point of dissolution the stain of the blood of Africa is no longer upon us ’ thus removing ‘ a mill-stone about our necks , ready to sink us to perdition ’ . |
| 12 | I see my mother 's care has not been thrown away upon you . |
| 13 | But his baptism , administered to him by another , sealing physically upon him the objectiveness of what Christ did for him on the cross , that was indeed a ground of assurance . |
| 14 | ‘ Pray do n't look austerely upon me . |
| 15 | Others brought to light with more care slim , dark bottles of wine with the dust and cobwebs thick upon them . |
| 16 | Winter was soon upon him . |
| 17 | The afternoon was soon upon us . |
| 18 | But the Myrcans were already upon them . |
| 19 | One example is the combination of a rural petty-bourgeois ancestry and the children of those parents , who live a very different life in a future which is already upon us , as in the two novels already discussed and , to some extent , in Marco Lodoli 's Diario di un millennio che fugge ( Diary of a millennium in flight , 1986 ) ; the protagonists of these fictions seem to belong neither to the past nor to the future , but to be caught in between , in some time-slip between the nineteenth and the twenty-first centuries . |
| 20 | Hailes thinks the revolution is already upon us . |
| 21 | The sickness of morning is already upon us , unaccustomed as we are to being up so early . |
| 22 | Then , with the return of the sheep to the village grazings , we knew that winter was once more upon us . |
| 23 | ‘ You have … er … a lovely house , ’ she said , glancing back at Holly McKitrick to find her blue eyes trained studiously upon her . |
| 24 | He supervised the customary rights of forest inhabitants , and sometimes bore hardly upon them . |
| 25 | Her hands were still upon him . |
| 26 | But to go with the slur of murder still upon him , and always the threat of pursuit and capture ? |
| 27 | He had laid by his sword , but he had a dagger still upon him , and managed to draw it and slash through the folds that smothered him ; and Norbury and Erpyngham and half a dozen others of his own people came plunging and splashing through the storm to help him out of these ominous grave-clothes . |
| 28 | If he had been there , he would have come out of it with his lustre still upon him , and his crest as high as ever . |
| 29 | At the same time they saw a causal link between the predicament of the peasants and their own frustrations ; the political , social , and cultural constrictions which impinged directly upon them seemed to be the product of a society based upon oppression of the masses . |
| 30 | Darlington argues persuasively that Marx believed the process of evolution to be by direct Lamarkian and not by indirect Darwinian , or selective means : that is to say , that the environment in which individuals found themselves operated directly upon them to adjust them to it and that the adjustments were transmitted by them to the next generation ; and not that , fortuitous mutations having occurred in the genetic package , they would when favourable equip the mutant for greater success in the given environment than the unmutated form could achieve . |