Example sentences of "[adv] upon them " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The burden is now suddenly upon them . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Others brought to light with more care slim , dark bottles of wine with the dust and cobwebs thick upon them . |
| 6 | But the Myrcans were already upon them . |
| 7 | He supervised the customary rights of forest inhabitants , and sometimes bore hardly upon them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The vagueness of novelists is sometimes due to these uncertainties , but they can capitalize imaginatively upon them . |
| 11 | The pros and cons of which financial saviour should be favoured — a bid led by the American company Sikorsky , or a European consortium including British Aerospace — need not concern us here , because to dwell unduly upon them would be like treating the assassination of an archduke in Sarajevo as the cause rather than the trigger for the First World War . |
| 12 | They turned to the subject of Christmas and the festivities nearly upon them . |
| 13 | Grunte and his companion were ushered into a lift , and , as the door closed mercifully upon them , the strains of ‘ Eskimo Nell ’ could be heard as they were borne aloft by the soft hum of machinery . |
| 14 | Beyond short-term market forces this has backfired b badly upon them . |
| 15 | Their close relatives , the Sea Butterflies , have lost their shall and feed exclusively upon them . |
| 16 | And I believed that to others I who looked thus strangely upon them , I also was strange . |
| 17 | He was getting nearer and nearer and was almost upon them . |
| 18 | She clapped her hands over her ears waiting for the water that was almost upon them , aware of the damage it was going to cause . |
| 19 | Some species , such as hares and young antelope , will stay stock-still in a crouching posture until the predator is almost upon them , before bolting . |
| 20 | However , the London season was almost upon them and she was more cheerful than she 'd been for weeks . |
| 21 | Suddenly the wedding day , which had seemed so far away , was almost upon them . |
| 22 | The storm was almost upon them now . |
| 23 | Silas was kneeling beside her in an instant , his face pale as he muttered huskily , ‘ Damned rabbits — they wait till you 're almost upon them . |
| 24 | Perhaps the time of his Occultation — whatever that might be — was almost upon them . |
| 25 | The Varsity showdown is almost upon them . |
| 26 | Some of them were loyal and trusted men who had been with the Prince for years and , as well as relying heavily upon them , he liked them . |
| 27 | If — as appears to be the case — detected offenders typically start from a position of social disadvantage ( which means that the obligation to obey the law weighs more heavily upon them than on others ) then punishment will tend to increase inequality rather than do the opposite . |
| 28 | But their clerical vestments weighed lightly upon them : faced with conflicting claims on their time and loyalty from Church and Crown , they almost invariably obeyed the secular authority . |