Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] on to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 2 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 3 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 4 | For high earners , the £75,000 cap is probably the strongest argument for hanging on to an existing Section 226 policy , since such policies are not affected by the earnings limit . |
| 5 | Unmould for serving on to a heated plate large enough to accommodate the pudding and the sauce that will seep from it . |
| 6 | whether they were in favour of going on to a second cycle of review and reporting and if so whether reports should deal only with a particular aspect of the school ; |
| 7 | The chances of going on to an additional baby from a given family size ( ‘ parity progression ratios ’ ) can be calculated from past data for women who have completed their families . |
| 8 | More often , they simply died ; the after-dinner heart attack while slumbering in one of the club 's deep leather chairs was a popular way of moving on to the great gentleman 's club in the sky . |
| 9 | It was an element in public expenditure which they were finding very hard to control , not surprisingly in the face of an ageing population , rapidly rising unemployment and government measures designed to shift the subsidy of housing on to the social security scheme . |
| 10 | Attempts have been made to map these two modes of processing on to the left and right hemispheres respectively . |
| 11 | He knew also that the human race freely chose to reject him ; it was only right that they should take some responsibility : mankind as well as God must be responsible for reversing the effects of the fall and for moving on to the mature relationship with the creator that had been ordained for them from all eternity . |
| 12 | While working on the two biker films and his one sentence in The St Valentine 's Day Massacre , undemanding as they were , Nicholson was also writing another film script for Corman who was once again ahead of the field in latching on to the latest craze sweeping through the world : the children of the post-war baby boom were coming out to play and nothing could stop them now . |
| 13 | There may be more security in hanging on to the old and acquiring something new as well . |
| 14 | The decapitated head spun like a ball in the air , lips still moving ; his trunk stood for a few seconds in its own fountain of hot red gore before crashing on to the blood-stained ice . |
| 15 | This discourages mounting adhesive from oozing on to the lower surface of the preparation , where it would affect attachment on the lapping machine 's vacuum chucks . |
| 16 | After the passage quoted just above concerning the esteem in which Molla Fenari was held and his place in the state , and before passing on to the next event in his life , namely his going on the pilgrimage in 822 ( 8 Dhu " l-Hijja = 26 December 1419 ) , Ibn Hajar writes that Molla Fenari became widely known for his erudition and that he was both pious and abundant in culture and merit " except that he was censured for [ espousing ] the sect of Ibn al- " Arabi and for the fact that he taught the and affirmed it " : he goes on to say that Molla Fenari , on the advice of friends , abjured mention of the subject in Egypt . |
| 17 | Both bought a gratifyingly large number of things before passing on to the next stall , where Miss Pettigrew sat behind pyramids of tinned food , most of which , on closer inspection , proved to be for cats . |
| 18 | David Macdonald made a series of quota quickies before going on to a larger budget with the striking comedy-thriller This Man is News ( 1938 ) , and Michael Powell built a reputation as a director of energetic quota films before making his mainstream début with Edge of the World ( 1937 ) , about the depopulation of a remote island in the Shetlands . |
| 19 | Before going on to the general question of crack propagation and control , it is worth considering some of the special effects of a dynamically applied load such as a blow . |
| 20 | Before going on to the second reason for Locke 's not acknowledging the existence of epistemic appearances I must correct a false impression I may have given , that all the seventeenth-century philosophers who succeeded Descartes toed the Cartesian line about the mind perceiving things by being causally affected by them . |
| 21 | Before going on to the detailed issues , let me begin by discussing some general aspects of what we mean by a crossroads and by the international position of an economy . |
| 22 | Omit each food or set of foods for about two weeks before going on to the next set . |
| 23 | The usual practice , therefore , is to take each question individually and mark that one question on every script before going on to the next question . |
| 24 | It was an American teaching method that , Frank insisted , allowed students to progress through the stages of education confident that they had grasped all the basics of one stage before going on to the next . |
| 25 | After about a dozen movements have been learned , they are strung together in a kata sequence and practised over and over again before going on to the next set of kata movements . |
| 26 | Thus , when he explained his view of the campaign , and of the war as whole , to Cantalupo on 4 April , he claimed that he was waging war slowly , in order to avoid unnecessary destruction and to consolidate the " liberation " ( which , he said , was not the same as the mere " conquest " ) of one area before going on to the next . |
| 27 | Individuals will approach a Lect/Dem. differently and the details will vary , but in the main it is more practical to take a piece of apparatus and say all you want to about its use before going on to the next piece . |
| 28 | Breadth-first search extends all the paths at one level of the search tree ( the siblings ) before going on to the next level ( the descendants ) . |
| 29 | It should perhaps be pointed out before going on to the next set of examples to be discussed that most of the uses found with have admit of only one of the two interpretations given above . |
| 30 | It then proceeds through a concise , but remarkably comprehensive review of data gathering instruments and issues of access to respondents , before moving on to a brief consideration of data analysis and the process of writing up work to enable others to benefit from it . |