Example sentences of "[subord] being on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's nothing worse than being on the beach half way through a game when the batteries pack up . ’ |
| 2 | This is designer socialism : the belief that buying tassled loafers rather than winklepickers , is somehow as much a PR of the struggle as being on the picket line at Wapping . |
| 3 | Any word or phrase not recognised by the computer as being on the authority list will cause the list of available choices to be displayed . |
| 4 | If we go to consider the folk as being on the ‘ inside ’ we then assume that what is on the ‘ outside ’ can only be impersonal processes that just have effects upon people . |
| 5 | What do you see Kiss 's role as being on the world scale ? |
| 6 | For many years ahead , unions will be seen by voters as being on the Labour side of the fence . |
| 7 | Something which may help here is to try visualising the helicopter as being on the lower end of a pendulum with the transmitter controls moving the top of the pendulum . |
| 8 | During the case , a leading local politician and campaigner against prostitutes and strip joints was forced to resign after his name was revealed as being on the list . |
| 9 | Throughout its life of eight years , myth building encouraged people to think of the unit as being on the margins of the organization . |
| 10 | Paul 's teaching has sometimes been unfairly caricatured as being on the bosses ' side . |
| 11 | Yet we must be cautious in viewing the Japanese farmer as being on the losing end every time . |
| 12 | It is nonetheless advanced as being on the right lines . |
| 13 | Yet even on the most charitable view of facts , one can hardly treat propositions like " Ruritania does not exist " as being on the same logical footing as any other synthetic true singular propositions without throwing into confusion the whole concept of existence . |
| 14 | They see the ‘ set ’ or emphasis in practical language as being on the referent , the reality referred to , and any potentially poetic features ( such as rhyme or alliteration ) as remaining subservient to the communicative aim . |
| 15 | Milton gathered his ideas not only from older books but from contemporary pamphlets issued by those frequently characterised by the social and cultural elite — then as now — as being on the lunatic fringe . |
| 16 | On the eve of the congress two political groups described as being on the right of the revolutionary spectrum , the National Convention of Progressive Patriots ( CNPP ) and the Union of Democrats and Patriots of Burkina ( UDPB ) , were allowed to join the Front , which now consisted of four national unions and seven political groups . |
| 17 | Zwygart , a teacher and a member of parliament , was described as being on the party 's liberal wing . |
| 18 | I seem to have it down as being on the 30th March . |
| 19 | And in my own role as as the as being on the editorial board of the newsletter erm we need all the effort that we can going in into that really . |
| 20 | And although we often hear about different jobs being of different sorts of status , they 're on a ladder of status , its for unemployed people the situation is very often as if you 've actually been kicked off this ladder and this is what people say when they describe being unemployed as being on the scrap heap and so on , it 's as if you 've been expelled from this particular world where erm people respect you for having a job and know that you 're contributing . |