Example sentences of "being on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite being on a three-month priority list , 80 tonnes of newsprint and diesel are still being held in Split by the UN . |
| 2 | Such is the increasing popularity of the bay that the first two miles of the four-mile journey have now been made negotiable for cars , the rest of the journey being on a well-trodden path |
| 3 | She comments , ‘ Life seems like being on a perpetual moving merry-go-round but I love every minute of it . ’ |
| 4 | While this is unlikely to be a problem in the early stages , being on a prolonged low-calorie diet which does not provide an adequate intake of these and other nutrients might have an adverse effect upon the body 's metabolism , and make it increasingly difficult to either lose weight or to maintain your exercise level . |
| 5 | If you can imagine being on a steep , snow-covered slope , below which there is a 1000 m ( 3,500 ft ) sheer drop , would you prefer to be wearing a shiny nylon cagoule or a rough old woollen jumper ? |
| 6 | The Elvaston drivers protested about the redundancies being on a quarry-by-quarry basis . |
| 7 | This gave the impression of being on a different plane altogether — or even a different train altogether — and most passengers would soon pass by . |
| 8 | Erm from you from your experience in the , the negotiating of that , that kind of er deal and just from what you saw of it working in factories , er do you think that management quite explicitly sought to , to create some division or was the division that arose wh you 're talking about the fitters being on a different scheme from the other members of the workforce ? |
| 9 | It 's like being on a runaway roundabout . |
| 10 | The feast has certainly fared better , being on a sound financial footing . |
| 11 | Once each of us has progressed beyond the initial terror that being on a vertical plane high above the ground induces , once we feel comfortable above the ground , then a new awareness develops . |
| 12 | Otherwise I 'll pay for the fine for being on a yellow line . |
| 13 | Confidence is one of the key qualities you acquire from being on a national team . |
| 14 | Apart from the bike messengers , that was , and these were easy to distinguish because they were young and wiry and bizarrely dressed , and their eyes seemed to have a certain glaze on them from being on a permanent adrenaline high . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | For many years ahead , unions will be seen by voters as being on the Labour side of the fence . |
| 17 | In view of the lack of English success in the past years , the war was now being discussed in terms which suited the French , the emphasis being on the feudal interpretation of the treaty of Brétigny . |
| 18 | It is nonetheless advanced as being on the right lines . |
| 19 | The child is in what is described as a position of ‘ transverse lie ; ’ with the elbow projecting through the cervix and the head being on the right side . |
| 20 | Caspar said , in a rather flat voice , ‘ At least we can be sure of being on the right road . ’ |
| 21 | The same indescribable appearance of the eyes , probably caused by the constant lack of sleep and the strain of being on the alert all the time . |
| 22 | Please thank Renata very much too for doing one ; her point about the reference count being on the small side for usefulness even to the general learner is a crucial one ; likewise yours about the belt-and-braces reassuringness of the transitive/intransitive label . |
| 23 | The umbrella being on the upper deck . |
| 24 | Only once , in a fleeting reference to Matisse is there a sense of the boot being on the other foot , of art offering a sense of liberation from social ideology . |
| 25 | My hon. Friend the Member for The Wrekin talked of the boot being on the other foot . |
| 26 | I was roasting , ’ said the youngster , who preferred being on the other side of the camera . |
| 27 | Being on the sourthernmost tip of the island it 's not exactly cool ! |
| 28 | for many hours on day one the river seemed amazingly narrow , one bank of it always being on the front end of my canoe . |
| 29 | I apologise for not being on the Front Bench for the debate . |
| 30 | In the event of the name of a member nominated being on the official panel of available parliamentary candidates of an affiliated organisation the consent in writing of the Executive Committee thereof must also be obtained and sent in with the form of nomination . |