Example sentences of "being [vb pp] on to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WORK is soon to start on a £5.2m scheme which will prevent raw sewage being pumped on to a Merseyside beach . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Charsky watched him being lowered on to a ledge , a little wider than his own . |