Example sentences of "[being] on " 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 | From being a peripheral figure for most of my working life , I now had to adjust to being on centre stage . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | All the more embarrassing , then , that the residence of the High Commissioner , Sir Derek March , was recently burgled and thoroughly looted , despite a British policeman being on duty at the time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I remember once being on the board of a risk capital company when the Business Expansion Scheme first came in . |
| 9 | When I was put in charge of the start-up at Fawley at the ripe old age of twenty-nine most of my team were people who were twenty years older than I was and being on shift with a lot of operating people taught me the problems and the realisation that I could learn a hell of a lot from them — the realisation that the chap on the shop floor usually knows far more about what 's going on than management does . |
| 10 | for many hours on day one the river seemed amazingly narrow , one bank of it always being on the front end of my canoe . |
| 11 | It is perhaps like being on top of a big wave in a canoe or on a surfboard , but to try to describe it is to fail . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I always fancied being on TV , ’ Marie says , giving a bow . |
| 14 | I do n't even mind being on my own . |
| 15 | The aircraft will land , disgorge the troops and take off again immediately , being on the ground for less than three minutes . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | Diana needs people ; unlike the Prince , she is not much good at being on her own . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's like being on the rack . ’ |
| 19 | The resulting film , The Quatermass Xperiment ( 1955 ) , tells of a spaceship returning to earth with only one being on board — a monster gestating inside the skin of a crew member . |
| 20 | Even allowing for the pound being on home ground that is a sizeable difference . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | You get somebody who is very outrageous on stage but who is maybe very shy off stage , and I think being on stage in front of an audience enables you to step outside of your own body and be somebody else totally different for that period of time . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't mind being on my own , ’ said Philip . |
| 26 | ‘ Nice to see you back , ’ said chairman , Alban Maginness to his former party colleague as Austin Currie went through his 18th or 19th conference , this time though , from the unfamiliar position of looking at the rostrum rather than being on it . ’ |
| 27 | But being on a priority list did n't , after all , seem to make any difference . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | To coincide with the Year of the Maze , Chatsworth 's famous yew labyrinth is being opened for just a few days during the year , the next openings being on August 18 and September 15 . |
| 30 | The exegesis of scripture by homily or commentary became Origen 's main life work , the commentaries being on so vast a scale that none survives complete . |