Example sentences of "[pos pn] be on " in BNC.

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1 My be on it .
2 well its been on the road
3 From this , we will not be excluded , but will in turn exclude them , including some of those who might find themselves in the terrain of our state because their being on our state threatens the unity of our state , just as they perceive us to be a threat to their unity , and so on and so on .
4 However , for the present attitudinism there is no state of affairs , which may be real or unreal , of prostitution being immoral , as there is a state of affairs , which may be real or unreal , of its being on the increase .
5 Then what have you to say to my argument , which is that by not going off the rails , man is destined to live meanly and dully , and in that way corrupts the true purpose of his being on earth ?
6 to our are on sixty five , on
7 Any delay in arriving at a solution will be due not to our being on the wrong track but simply to the enormous complexity of the problem .
8 Prussia had a dynastic interest in the same question , as Bismarck recognized when he opposed Alexander 's marriage to a Prussian princess : ‘ English policy ’ , he said , ‘ has an interest in our being on bad terms with Russia , and a Prussian princess on the Bulgarian throne would be a fairly sure way of achieving this . ’
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