Example sentences of "[being] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Raised ’ from the ruck , originally , by his family 's wealth , he does n't want to ‘ sink ’ , and rejects ‘ the idea of defeat ’ that prevails in the Third World : ‘ I 'm tired of being on the losing side . |
| 2 | Though soon to be exposed to Nazi atrocities as returning soldiers and the world 's press became free to speak , he enjoyed the feeling of being on the winning side , of seeing his country 's troops and their allies making strong progress across Europe . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I remember once being on the board of a risk capital company when the Business Expansion Scheme first came in . |
| 6 | for many hours on day one the river seemed amazingly narrow , one bank of it always being on the front end of my canoe . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The aircraft will land , disgorge the troops and take off again immediately , being on the ground for less than three minutes . |
| 9 | He did n't employ an architect or surveyor , hoping that by being on the job and so closely involved , he ‘ could control things not being removed ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's like being on the rack . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The idea of the New has always been a crucial part of pop 's rhetoric : the idea that the future is going to be a improvement on the past ( that sixties ' feeling of being on the brink of a whole new order , the beginning of an endless breaking down of barriers and limits ) . |
| 13 | I was trying to communicate between David and Tony , trying to get them to talk to each other , and as a result was going back and forth between the two of them which was a very frustrating experience , added to which I was tired from being on the road and I was very unhappy . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Being on the road is the lifeblood of politics and that 's something that these days television enhances , because whatever the potential of studio interviews or recorded broadcasts , some of the most effective television comes from live campaigning ‘ out there ’ . |
| 16 | The painters being on the premises , and the landlord seeing the advantage , the job was done cheaply . |
| 17 | Despite being on the same latitude as Stockholm and Churchill ( Canada ) it was a renowned stock-rearing area . |
| 18 | The map of Chelsea Physic Garden , engraved by John Haynes in 1751 , clearly shows a gap for a small gate in the north-east corner of the garden wall to provide easy access to the gardener 's home , the main gate being on the river frontage . |
| 19 | The environmentalist is increasingly seen as ‘ being on the side of the public ’ , fighting pollution and striving to improve our quality of life . |
| 20 | By 1702 , the house and grounds were held by Richard Boyle , the third Earl of Burlington , also the fourth Earl of Cork , who travelled extensively and had many influential friends , including Alexander Pope , who was considered to be head of the literary world and who moved with his parents , in 1716 , to the end house of Dr. Matthias Mawson 's new buildings ( Mawson Row ) , that end house being on the corner of Chiswick Lane and a lane that later became known as Mawson Lane ( now obliterated by the dual carriageway of the Great West Road Extension A.4. ) ; that end house , in due course , becoming a Public House named Fox and Hounds , following Alexander Pope 's removal to Strawberry Hill at Twickenham . |
| 21 | Being on the sourthernmost tip of the island it 's not exactly cool ! |
| 22 | There is a genuine fear that being on the periphery of Europe will be an obstacle to trading with out partners within the community . |
| 23 | Records for 1930 and 1931 are scant , but during 1930 Bill achieved his sixth hole-in-one , on the former short 17th , his third at Henley , the others being on the 2nd and 4th . |
| 24 | The notion of marginality carries with it the sense of dualism , since it implies being on the boundaries of urban and rural society , but not integrated into either . |
| 25 | Owners , management and staff can play their part by being on the lookout for drunkenness , under-age drinking or drug-dealing . |
| 26 | On that journey the romance of travel must have seemed dead , and yet , reading his account of the journey in The Great Railway Bazaar , the armchair traveller longs to experience being on the edge , as travellers often are . |
| 27 | It had been a few years since he had served Mass last as an altar-boy in Rosstrevor , and even the new authority of his police sergeant 's stripes did little to compensate for his nervousness at being on the altar again . |
| 28 | When he was asked his name , Gallacher replied with typical arrogance , ‘ If you do n't know me , you 've no business being on the field ! |
| 29 | The plucky Ms Simonsen , not accustomed to being on the wrong end of a double Bacardi , took a principled feminist stance , complained to the management and insisted that the local police were called . |
| 30 | But , in the longer term , it promises to move the specialist closer to the levers of power , which have often eluded his or her grasp , leaving a sense of being on the periphery of events . |