Sentence examples for on its being from inspiring English sources

For example, the truth of my belief that today is sunny depends on whether it is sunny but it also depends on its being a belief that today is sunny.

… The habeas corpus will be suspended anywhere, on its being shown that it is necessary to prevent disorganization or demoralization of the national forces".

Alan Lodwick, in Kidlington, makes a further point, which is that the green belt exists also to protect the character of towns and cities and that the character of Oxford, with its compact medieval centre, is based on its being the size it is now.

It is specifically called into material being by the creative activity of a gifted human being, and its primary purpose depends on its being viewed.

The mentality that leads to restrictions on its being freely accessed is the same one that demanded that clean needles, contraceptives and other vital health products not be made available: that they "encourage" behavior that is deemed "bad".

Emperor Meiji grandfather of Japan's present emperor found it so spiritually uplifting that he insisted on its being placed in his hotel room whenever he visited Otaru, in the far north of the country, to inspect the herring catch.

On its own, it's inert.

It was on its roof".

It's on its way back up".

Now it's on its last legs.

It was on its last legs.