Example sentences of "on to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This again throws the emphasis on to skills rather than coverage of facts , although a comprehension of the structures of subject disciplines ( even the idea that subjects have structures ) is an important element . |
| 2 | Chop garlic and parsley , mix with olive oil and spread on to slices . |
| 3 | Monarchs hold on to stars |
| 4 | We 'll have a look at decimals because you need to need to know what you 're doing with decimals but decimals are fractions and until you I mean I think you 're very happy with fractions now you 're probably ready to go on to decimals . |
| 5 | I think we 've got to work out better ways of machines interacting with doctors , perhaps before we 're ready to move on to machines interacting with patients . |
| 6 | Some more crag rats were further proving the delights of Yorkshire limestone , holding on to ledges with their eyelashes and hanging on to spars of rock by their nostrils , swarming in a team of a dozen or so all over the face of the scar like a plague of dayglo flies . |
| 7 | Perhaps you could pass your Medau News on to friends with an encouragement to them also to join a class . |
| 8 | Through moving on to questions which invite rational , positive answers when the interviewee seems ‘ thrown ’ or upset . |
| 9 | Similarly , neutral printed versions may be produced of handwritten shopping lists , slogans spray-painted on to hoardings , and public notices embossed on metal plates . |
| 10 | You pass through orchards , over farms where the people wave greetings , catch glimpses of castles that were there centuries before the railway was built and of huddled villages , then go higher through woodlands where the trees brush the carriages , and on to views of snow clad peaks shimmering on the horizon . |
| 11 | ‘ Then I moved on to hotels . |
| 12 | Flared greaves on to shanks ; magnetic boots locking into the greaves … |
| 13 | Although LEAs have sometimes held on to powers at the centre which prevented decisions being made quickly and flexibly , they did provide an education service which allowed an effective response to diversity and need . |
| 14 | The complete , corrected raw data has been backed up on to cartridges which can be loaded by robot , and any files which are not online can be quickly recalled . |
| 15 | The next century saw the emergence of such revered names as the Edinburgh Magazine , the Quarterly and Blackwood 's , and soon the presses engaged in a helter-skelter race to put a remarkable variety of magazines , at every educational level and from every popular viewpoint , on to bookstalls and into reading rooms . |
| 16 | Bawiti was a village of crooked streets and blank-walled houses which faced inward on to courtyards . |
| 17 | Modern technology allows us to use lasers to record images from photographs or video cameras on to videodiscs , and to access each picture or frame instantly by quoting its frame number . |
| 18 | It had one of the best acoustic sound-dubbing rooms in Europe — they 'd been fitted out some time in the thirties to be used for putting soundtracks on to movies . |
| 19 | It was understood that most injuries were caused by debris falling from the Commercial Union and other buildings on to passers by . |
| 20 | The idea of holding on to goods for four or five weeks is rather surprising . |
| 21 | Actors throughout history had staggered on to stages in various states of alcoholic debility , but they had almost always got through the lines , or at least an approximation of them . |
| 22 | They are also pushing more of the risks and rewards of innovation on to suppliers . |
| 23 | Gilding — the laying of gold leaf on to surfaces — requires a great deal of patience and practice to achieve a good result . |
| 24 | Novacrylic is a top surface which can be laid directly on to a macadam sub base or on to layers of Novacushion or the new Ultracushion . |
| 25 | It had become obvious early on to paleontologists that the dinosaurs , living in a moist and warm environment , in a sparsely populated animal kingdom , had succeeded in evolving into the first vegetation-eaters with no competitors . |
| 26 | The second consequence of this unilinearity is that the idea of the standard is projected backwards on to states of language and society in which that idea may not have existed , or — if it did exist — may have been different in important ways from the idea of the standard as it exists today . |
| 27 | The only things he does n't like are the narrow ramps on to aeroplanes , so we have to get behind him with a broom . |
| 28 | Items recovered are either reused or passed on to recyclers . |
| 29 | How long should I hold on to records ? |
| 30 | Erm well our branch secretaries are , are the main people who pass on to stewards , who would in turn pass all this literature and things like that on , on the NUPE side |