Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] on to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As might be expected from data reported earlier , positive attitudes as measured by all five factors were significantly associated with willingness to go on to a second round of review and reporting . |
| 2 | Television and radio carried brief reports , while the the story squeezed on to the front page of the national evening newspaper Izvestia , between larger accounts of the Congress of People 's Deputies , Russia 's row with Ukraine and an explosion at an Armenian arms depot . |
| 3 | The Caribbean lapped on to the deserted palm-fringed beach just beyond . |
| 4 | Ultimately Childebert and Guntram patched up their quarrel , and Chilperic moved on to the defensive , only to be murdered at Chelles in 584 . |
| 5 | She slowly forced the wheel to the left and the car moved on to the hard shoulder and stopped . |
| 6 | A minute later Payton moved on to a sloppy Jobling pass and shot into the side netting as fans jumped to their feet in anticipation of a goal . |
| 7 | This paper presents results for eighteen clients accepted on to the Special Development Team caseload , who were living in NHS mental handicap hospitals at the time of referral , eleven of whom had moved to staffed houses in the community . |
| 8 | For example , we would expect to find cells that give an excitatory response to long wavelength light shone on one part of the retina and an inhibitory response to long wavelength light shone on to an adjacent part . |
| 9 | The local heats take place at Acklam Sports Centre on Wednesday and Thursday , July 29 and 30 with the winners going on to the regional final on August 5 . |
| 10 | National Assembly elections involve two rounds of voting on consecutive Sundays with the two most successful candidates in the first round and candidates polling over 12.5 per cent of the vote going on to the second round . |
| 11 | Whether or not this pilot study leads on to a larger project depends upon first , whether or not the aid project goes ahead , and second , whether or not the pilot study indicates that a more ambitious study is feasible . |
| 12 | Well away from the motorway now , each new place quickly gave way to further forest and , just as Jenna was beginning to be lulled into a strange peace by the dappled sunlight of the place , the soothing green of nature , the car turned on to a narrow road and began to climb steadily . |
| 13 | Then the car hurtled on to the deceptive green meadow — and into it ! |
| 14 | She was still in a state of shock , her eyes locked on to an imaginary spot in the centre of the windscreen . |
| 15 | The front door slammed shut and the Countess collapsed on to the bottom step of the staircase , her legs useless . |
| 16 | If the stimulus conditions start with a spectrally pure red light shining on to a red area the cell will fire even though the area looks like a washed-out red to a human observer . |
| 17 | Ultimately , de Gaulle 's attempt to hold on to the symbolic status bestowed by 18 June and the war proved his undoing . |
| 18 | The winners go on to the national finals in York , the winners of that may have a chance of selection for the Paralympics in Barcelona . |
| 19 | On the London stage , the great roles will be plucked like plums , in the Welsh valleys his fame will swell like the fortissimo of a chapel organ and his acts of generosity , recklessness , coarseness and excellent manners tossed on to the fiery legend like dry logs . |
| 20 | Whether the world could continue to support its present ‘ uncontrolled economic growth ’ in the face of diminishing resources and pollution was a question on which all the candidates latched on to the latter issue . |
| 21 | United 's best chance of the half came just a minute later ; Martin Foyle ran on to the perfect Paul Simpson through ball , he actually got past goal keeper Andy Gosney but he was forced just a little bit wide . |
| 22 | Far Eastern reports of imminent bid terms from Hongkong & Shanghai Bank caused some early excitement in Midland Bank and , despite a denial , the stock held on to a 10 point rise to 345p . |
| 23 | The longer that socialist parties held on to the old orthodoxies , the worse they have suffered . |
| 24 | If the subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group are released into the private sector , with all the rhetoric about freedom and competition , one of the rights that will be established is the right of a buyer to sell on to a new owner Whatever safeguards the Minister may tell us , to salve his conscience , are built into the legislation , the truth is that they will disappear immediately further sales take place . |
| 25 | One of the most amusing was when a group calling itself the Renewable Energy Generating Board drove on to the proposed reactor site and installed a miniature array of ten-foot-high wind turbines . |
| 26 | There was no room with Jimmy and Sean , and Marcus and Pete moved on to a different table . |
| 27 | His family is suing the Kenyan government over his death from a fractured skull after the vehicle veered on to the wrong side of the road on 3 August , hitting the couple from behind . |
| 28 | I can not see how they could be established in British literary education , where there are no graduate schools as such , and the narrow , uphill tunnel of A-level work leads on to the rocky , cloudy uplands of the undergraduate degree , with its confused mixture of practical criticism and thematic study , analysis and literary history , coverage and special subjects . |
| 29 | One table lamp by the window shone on to the Chinese figures . |
| 30 | The window gave on to a small lead roof beyond whose parapet I could see the topmost branches of the elm tree , the ornate brick chimneys of my own House — School House . |