Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] on to the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In all the tanks where my fish are housed a small terracotta saucer is placed on to the bottom where the food is placed , this does help when it comes to cleaning the uneaten food off the aquarium bottom . |
2 | Take great care not to apply too much adhesive as it will show through or seep out once the glass is pressed on to the picture . |
3 | Harry Dodson 's head gardener 's office is built on to the back wall of the kitchen garden at Chilton . |
4 | A broad wheel of small diameter , it is of the overshot , pitch-back type and sits below a ‘ launder ’ , or large iron tank , which accepts water from the ‘ flume ’ , connected with the mill-pond , so that water is ducted on to the top of the wheel , causing it to rotate backwards . |
5 | This can be seen as a system for design in which the mapping of function on to the geometric domains is raised to the next level in which the requirement to manage and control the process is mapped on to the sub-processes or departments . |
6 | With both stable the pressurisation is selected on to the accompaniment of popping eardrums , a whiff of hot exhaust fumes and a reduction in noise . |
7 | He had a moped hidden in some bushes not far away and now he 's turned on to the track going up the mountain . |
8 | The entry is then displayed on screen for correction and if it is correct , the librarian chooses option 3 and the data is written on to the disk . |
9 | When the invoice comes in for payment , this is copied on to the system as well , and Caterdata first searches for the equivalent delivery note to check that Brown is being charged for the right goods . |
10 | The image is drawn on to the stone with a fine wax pencil or crayon , which attracts the oily ink used in the printing process . |
11 | The burden of proof is shifted on to the defendant and although the prosecution does not need to prove that the accused intended that the impression be false and misleading , the defendant may need to establish that he reasonably believed that it would not be so . |
12 | The calculation takes account of processing power and the speed of communication links , and then the request to start the thread is handed on to the processor with the least to do . |
13 | The calculation takes account of processing power and the speed of communication links , and then the request to start the thread is handed on to the processor with the least to do . |
14 | Managing change : Today , however , almost every guru is locked on to the theme of change management . |
15 | This prepreg material is then covered with a flexible membrane which is sealed on to the tool and the area under the bag evacuated . |
16 | Unusually , the front wrap-around handle is moulded on to the top of the motor housing , rather than the bottom . |
17 | This analysis suggests that if , in periods of intensified conflict , crisis is displaced on to the deviant , the process only succeeds because of the paranoid instabilities at the heart of dominant cultural identities . |
18 | When all the data is entered on to the computer , it can then be sorted in numerous ways which would be too time-consuming using manual methods . |
19 | This time , however , data is entered on to the graphs by first indicating each point in turn ( on the plan view of PARTA ) by means of a digitized point . |
20 | Liming wax is scrubbed on to the door when the dye has completely dried . |
21 | Pindar wrote the first poem of his career ( Pythian x ) for a Thessalian patron in 498 : This opening places Thessaly straight away in the centre of Dorian Greek culture ; the Aleuad dynasty in Thessaly is treated as a branch of the house of Herakles , that is , it is grafted on to the Dorian Peloponnesian tree . |
22 | Take care to keep the swollen union of fruit trees — where the top growth is grafted on to the root stock — well above ground level . |
23 | The sander is clamped on to the edge of a workbench so the disc is vertical and the shank of the disc is locked securely into your power-drill chuck — most drills with a standard 43mm diameter neck are suitable . |
24 | Some of the magma generated is erupted on to the surface to form enormous lava flows ( see Chapter 5 ) , but by far the largest proportion is accreted to the base of the crust , a process known ( somewhat misleadingly ) as underplating . |
25 | Finally , a screw-in side handle is fixed on to the alloy gear cover , offset either to the left or right depending on the user . |
26 | Down the dog 's back runs a nylon tape with a small karabiner at its ends , which hooks on to a tug line that is crimped on to the tow line . |
27 | Part of the lessor 's cashflow benefit from the consequent reductions in his tax bill is passed on to the lessee by way of lower rentals , reducing the lessee 's effective finance cost . |
28 | Very low prices ( the retailer makes savings through bulk buying , and overheads are lower than in a central location — part of these savings is passed on to the customer ) |
29 | Most UK institutions charge loans on a floating rate basis such that they match floating rate liabilities , but this merely increases credit risk , as interest rate risk is passed on to the customer , with subsequent greater probability of defaults occurring . |
30 | I 'd like to move a petition containing seven hundred and twelve signatures , residents of Broadstone who request the installation of a pedestrian crossing on Broadstone Lane , bottom end of Shakespeare Drive and propose that it is passed on to the environment committee for consideration . |