Example sentences of "being [verb] on to the " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 | Léonie could n't watch them any more , she was being pulled on to the narrow track between the trees . |
| 9 | ‘ After I got knocked out how the hell did you stop us from being driven on to the rocks ? ’ |
| 10 | The anti-violence lobby resulted in a lot of romantic schmaltz being grafted on to the fifth series . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Following the data which was being projected on to the tiny screen , it was clear that the telemetry and guidance modules had performed according to specification . |
| 17 | " It was as if some Technicolour epic of Cecil B. De Milles was being projected on to the screen of the vast plain . " |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The particles themselves remain separate and discrete when it comes to being passed on to the next generation . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | This measure was intended to eliminate corruption and prevent unrecoverable loans being passed on to the Central Bank . |
| 22 | If the recession is hitting mums and dads , it 's certainly not being passed on to the children . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I thought about the Commando losing his leg this morning and the two wounded being loaded on to the jeep . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The top deck is being lowered on to the bottom deck of Standard 152 by this unusual structure outside the Blackpool Works , after the new car 's arrival from Motherwell in 1925 . |