Example sentences of "[adv] upon we " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | The afternoon was soon upon us . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Hailes thinks the revolution is already upon us . |
| 5 | The sickness of morning is already upon us , unaccustomed as we are to being up so early . |
| 6 | Then , with the return of the sheep to the village grazings , we knew that winter was once more upon us . |
| 7 | Well fellow supporters the season is nearly upon us and hopefully it will bear fruit . |
| 8 | THE Great North Run is nearly upon us , and I am writing to ask for help in finding a runner who is prepared to run for DIAL UK , the National Association of Information and Advice Lines . |
| 9 | That time is now upon us . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Implementation of the Community Care Act is now upon us , yet many organisations have not really begun to explain to potential clients and stakeholders in the wider community exactly what care management is , who care managers are , what they will do , and what a care package can include . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Well , with the Easter holidays now upon us our feathered friends in the countryside have decided to make their seasonal contribution . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | The English cricket season is almost upon us , and things will never again be the same . |
| 17 | The English cricket season is almost upon us , and things will never again be the same . |
| 18 | Quite a few leaves underfoot here and there autumn almost upon us , next thing you knew when you looked round the trees were bare , the people hurrying home of an evening , winter upon you . |
| 19 | A new year is almost upon us . |
| 20 | The day to day process of making capital investment decisions in our major corporations allocates the resources of society thereby having a long term impact upon the organizations involved and ultimately upon us all . |
| 21 | It can hardly have escaped your notice that the satellite television revolution is now well and truly upon us . |
| 22 | Now with summer well and truly upon us , it 's time for the first in a new series looking at some of the region 's loveliest gardens . |
| 23 | Another faithful sign that winter is truly upon us , is when wildlife comes in from the cold . |
| 24 | Now it 's actually upon us and a decision has to be made … ’ |