Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] on to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they found that a tremendous amount of grain was lost by being shed on to the stubble . |
| 2 | I am acutely conscious that I have been a source of aggravation to Pa recently over my stupid allergy to vegetables ; it can not be pleasant to see the products one has slaved over summer and winter being regurgitated on to the dinner plate of one 's elder child . |
| 3 | At last they reached the station and watched the milk being lifted on to the train . |
| 4 | When completed in about 18 months time , the stations , which are about four miles apart , will stop raw sewage from three outfalls that serve 42,000 people being discharged on to the foreshore . |
| 5 | However , there are signs of change at some levels , because men are now being accepted on to the CARE course , which provides specialist training in how to deal with victims of sex crimes , although this might simply reflect a recognition that an increasing number of victims are young boys . |
| 6 | WORK is soon to start on a £5.2m scheme which will prevent raw sewage being pumped on to a Merseyside beach . |
| 7 | The prospect of being flung on to the scrap heap in a period of rising unemployment is daunting for young men with wives , children and mortgages . |
| 8 | ‘ After I got knocked out how the hell did you stop us from being driven on to the rocks ? ’ |
| 9 | As the BSI 's Chris Sheldon , says : ‘ The challenge for many companies is that a new aspect of business life , the environment , is being entered on to the balance sheet for the first time . |
| 10 | During Edward 's time , a Fielding gas engine was installed , to augment the water power , the gas supply being laid on to the Millbottom area specifically for the mill . |
| 11 | Earlier this year , the Ince-based agricultural chemical firm , warned that jobs were under threat if the European Commission did not take action to prevent cheap Russian fertilisers being dumped on to the UK market , making competition virtually impossible . |
| 12 | It had taken three-quarters of an hour to sort out the situation at the crossroads in Ramsgate , make statements to the police , get the names of witnesses , watch the crippled Jaguar being winched on to the back of the Relay tender . |
| 13 | This is clearly linked to Part 1 , since what is being projected on to the person with an impairment by ‘ able-bodied ’ culture is in itself changing . |
| 14 | " It was as if some Technicolour epic of Cecil B. De Milles was being projected on to the screen of the vast plain . " |
| 15 | The edging for a gravel drive must be deep enough to keep in the gravel which is below ground level , and high enough to prevent the gravel being spread on to the garden . |
| 16 | A hot potato is being passed on to the courts and ministers are safe in the knowledge they can hold up their hands and say : ‘ We tried everything we could ’ . ’ |
| 17 | Is the Minister aware that there would be widespread opposition , particularly in Scotland , to any Government imposing legislation that led to the disappearance of the traditional head on a pint of beer or to increased costs being passed on to the consumer in price increases ? |
| 18 | If the recession is hitting mums and dads , it 's certainly not being passed on to the children . |
| 19 | I remember I had a dream , when I was five or six , of all the books in my mother 's library being thrown on to a bonfire with piles of other books and burnt . |
| 20 | The Falkirk teenager had seen a shopping trolley being thrown on to the line from a bridge and knew that a passenger train was only minutes away . |
| 21 | Subsequent Cabinet and Service Department screening in Whitehall reduced the figure to £4,700 million which was the most that the Treasury believed the economy could bear without being put on to a war footing . |
| 22 | Because you know money-wise because we were not content to sit back and see er schemes being introduced that , which were going to act as a deterrent to er our members er being able to earn wages er on incentives and so therefore erm what happened was that we agreed that the consultants er head personnel manager would come down and talk to each group of people who were being put on to the incentive scheme , one , in order that he go over everything with them in regard to its application , and two , then answer any practical questions er where our members may find that there could be difficulties . |
| 23 | After a meeting on April 27 near Cologne between Eppelmann and Gerhard Stoltenberg , the West German Defence Minister , a joint statement declared : " Our goal is a united Germany as a member of the Atlantic Alliance without NATO 's military structures or equipment being extended on to the territory of East Germany . |
| 24 | Christopher Picton , 34 , of Avon Way , Colchester , Essex , became trapped as the reels , weighing two and a half tons , were being loaded on to a lorry . |
| 25 | In the door of the shop stands the owner , with the Company 's Ration Warrant Officer conducting individual qualitative and quantitative checks on what is being loaded on to the vehicle . |
| 26 | I thought about the Commando losing his leg this morning and the two wounded being loaded on to the jeep . |
| 27 | Charsky watched him being lowered on to a ledge , a little wider than his own . |