Example sentences of "[be] thrown on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we are prepared to participate in a European bank for reconstruction and development to help countries in eastern Europe which are facing the same problems as Britain 's defence industry workers , could we not at least set up a defence diversification agency to help the tens of thousands of workers in the north-west and throughout the United Kingdom who will be thrown on to the scrap heap ? |
| 2 | It was greatly feared , in fact , that the structure of employment was such that it supplied the rising generation with little discipline and even less skill , and that it threatened to produce an endless tide of loafers , unemployables and ne'er-do-wells who had been thrown on to the scrap heap in their late teens or early twenties . |
| 3 | All the responsibility has been thrown on to the regulatory body OFTEL , when it might have been possible to help the market work better . |
| 4 | Is he not ashamed that so many children have been thrown on to the streets of Scotland while he has been Prime Minister ? |
| 5 | Standing in the Platz in her elegant coat and furs Erika was on the verge of tears : first the books were thrown on to the flames and then , in a terrible and inevitable sequence , human beings were put into the incinerators . |
| 6 | Clods of earth were thrown on to the stout elm coffin , and the mourners began to leave . |
| 7 | Yesterday as 390 of his old workmates were thrown on to the dole with him , Mike said : ‘ It 's like somebody kicked you in the guts . |
| 8 | There was a constant hissing when Zoecke was serving and coins were thrown on to the court . |
| 9 | Now , suddenly , those who clung to these notions were thrown on to the defensive and soon outnumbered . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The full burden of long-run equilibriation is thrown on to the slender base of the real balance effect . |
| 12 | The English response was ineffective : the campaigns of the 1340s and 1350s had been essentially plundering raids , launched into enemy territory from secure bases ; but after 1369 England was thrown on to the defensive in Aquitaine , and she had little idea how to fight a defensive war . |