Example sentences of "[prep] being [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | One sanitary inspector reported that ‘ far from being carried on in the poorer types of dwelling , outwork was taken to supplement their resources by many people whose names one would never expect to find on an outworkers list ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ After I got knocked out how the hell did you stop us from being driven on to the rocks ? ’ |
| 4 | This system involves a continuous rotation of paddocks in which the susceptible younger calves graze ahead of the immune adults and remain long enough in each paddock to remove only the leafy upper herbage before being moved on to the next paddock . |
| 5 | He completed his thesis on Lorenzo di Credi and worked in Italy at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence and the Biblioteca Herziana , Rome , before being taken on by the Albertina , Vienna . |
| 6 | The particles themselves remain separate and discrete when it comes to being passed on to the next generation . |
| 7 | Some Sutton pupils expressed worries about being picked on by the ‘ bigger ones ’ and were concerned about going into the same playground . |
| 8 | But they found that a tremendous amount of grain was lost by being shed on to the stubble . |