Example sentences of "[be] [verb] on to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage . |
| 2 | That is not the case when they are added on to the normal uprating statement , as has happened today . |
| 3 | The screens are slotted on to an amazing new printer which cost the company an arm and a leg a couple of years ago . |
| 4 | After serving a further 20 per cent of their sentence in a semi-open regime , inmates are moved on to an open system ; |
| 5 | Candidates from both the UK and overseas are accepted on to the full-time programme . |
| 6 | MORE than 500 Chinese who wanted to be smuggled into the United States have been moved on to an American base in the Marshall Islands after a six-week voyage from Hong Kong , the US Coast Guard said yesterday . |
| 7 | Sunday night rounds the event off with a bizarre juxtaposing of gigs : downstairs in the main hall it 's Mayhem Central , where the venue 's somewhat implausible design means that unless you 're stuffed on to the raised dancefloor you can see bugger all of the bands . |
| 8 | Johnson , just debating , we 're getting on to the whole idea of Johnson 's world and the link though it worked out the same I 'd say . |
| 9 | When both trunks had been hauled on to the far bank they used the ropes to bind them together at various points along their length . |
| 10 | In anticipation of bumper Christmas sales , new stock had been crowded on to every available surface and spilled across the floor . |
| 11 | The tensions and anxieties which are inevitably entailed when a more or less racially homogeneous society becomes multi-racial are displaced on to a solitary figure — the leering bootboy . |
| 12 | The surprising thing about this debate is its relative neglect of the administrative dimension of corporatism ( Etzioni-Halevy 1983 , pp. 63–73 ) , especially since the relationships between state and economy which compel a corporatist interpretation of modern capitalism manifest themselves through institutions which are grafted on to the administrative system . |
| 13 | Norwegian Jacquard : This stitch design option will allow you to knit many different colours in a design style that is best described as based on the traditional Scandinavian type of pattern , where small designs are laid on to a multi-coloured striped background . |
| 14 | I will definitely be hanging on to the sweat-stained handkerchief that Tom Jones tossed to my mother back in the Sixties . |
| 15 | My Working Group recommended that knowledge about language should be an integral part of work in English , not a separate body of knowledge to be added on to the traditional English curriculum . |
| 16 | The DT 2600 E has about as many features as can be squeezed on to a hot air gun . |
| 17 | An antechamber may be built on to the main egg-chamber . |
| 18 | Marr ( 1982 ) describes many processes that have yet to be mapped on to the nervous system . |
| 19 | When I 've bought my sons their shirts I 'm going on to a good academic bookshop to get an item for myself — a book called something like Syntax and Significance : A Cognitive Approach . |
| 20 | The history specialists in the secondary school for the area may also be able to offer advice , especially as pupils from the catchment area will ultimately be going on to the secondary school . |
| 21 | Gill will be going on to the Namarroi area to take part in an evaluation with the CCM . |
| 22 | Their anxiety may be displaced on to the actual ceremony , making the responses correctly , being the centre of attention , or on to details of the reception or party to be held afterwards . |
| 23 | It can not be grafted on to an alien stem . |
| 24 | On warm days the area between the lawn and water surface had constantly to be watched so that , immediately signs of shrinkage appeared , water could be sprayed on to the puddled surface . |
| 25 | These exercises , which are easily and quickly generated , can be presented to your students either as printed worksheets — you will be provided with the answers on a separate sheet — or can be put on to a floppy disk so that a student or group of students can work on screen . |
| 26 | A thick lagging jacket should be put on to the hot water tank . |
| 27 | Sections that have been saved to disk from other designs can also be imported on to the current grid , so a completely new pattern could be created simply by combining various sections from other designs . |
| 28 | Commitment to sport has to be freely given ; it has to be fun ; it can not be foisted on to the poor or the wayward from above because it is good for them . |
| 29 | The piece can then be glued on to the damaged area and made ready to receive the gold leaf . |
| 30 | Failing a settlement , a dispute would be passed on to a binational panel , on which non-NAFTA members could serve to enhance their impartiality . |