Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [being] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the whole , academics will trade time for quality , although sometimes no doubt they use quality as an excuse for not being on time . |
| 2 | I apologise for not being on the Front Bench for the debate . |
| 3 | course that 's , that 's the beauty of er biking it up the hill , that 's some , there 's so much scope for not being on the road , you 've got special baths for someone |
| 4 | Within the major firms this stock has been rising in some cases at over 20% per annum , and has proved to be a very good investment in spite of not being on the market . |
| 5 | In addition to the question of impact , the qualitative research so far described has the disadvantage — in many people 's eyes — of not being on a large enough scale . |
| 6 | I think what we actually want is more people who are more in tune with working people and their hopes , and their dreams and their aspirations , and tha in , in parliament , in the House of Commons than we 've got at the moment and so the motion I 'm putting forward which is to propose that we actually look at the Parliamentary Panel and make sure we get a few decent shop stewards in the House of Commons , a few people who got experience of actually being on the shop floor , a few people who got experience in the last fourteen years , that the last four Conservative governments have actually tried and defend and fight for the interests of working people right down the grass root , those are the people that we actually need in the House of Commons and we shall be looking at our Parliamentary Panel and we shall be looking at it very seriously to ensure that we get those sort of people onto that Parliamentary Panel and those sort of people into the House of Commons , that 's the best way to represent working people in Britain today and that 's the sort of contribution the G M B should be making . |