Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1986 , 38 students were enrolled on to the parallel track , but during the next academic year something unexpected happened . |
| 2 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |
| 3 | Others were painted on to a dry plaster surface . |
| 4 | Some 4,000 media workers covering the conference were based in an exhibition hall 2 km away , where the proceedings were relayed on to a giant screen . |
| 5 | Debts were carried on to the next account ; there was certainly none of the easy attitude of the old 17th Century German masters who regularly wrote workers ' debts off . |
| 6 | The last two boxes were lifted on to the small boat , the men who strained under their weight cursing as they completed their task . |
| 7 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 8 | This suggests that both groups of children were adding on to the larger digit a number of steps equal in value to the smaller digit . |
| 9 | At less exalted levels of society , economies had to be made ; often many subjects were crammed on to a single plate . |
| 10 | In the Fox case many people connected with the convicted man were hauled on to the national stage by the popular press . |
| 11 | In this year the Japanese were driven on to the defensive , with the increasing damage to their shipping creating shortages in essential foodstuffs and vital petrol supplies . |
| 12 | Moreover , the SPOs — who were intended to be the key link between ‘ bottom-up ’ development and strategic planning — had large managerial responsibilities and were grafted on to the developmental CMHT model rather than being key initiators of it . |
| 13 | They arrived at the airport , and were rushed on to the 747 to Hong Kong . |
| 14 | Clods of earth were thrown on to the stout elm coffin , and the mourners began to leave . |
| 15 | Now , suddenly , those who clung to these notions were thrown on to the defensive and soon outnumbered . |
| 16 | They were put on to the French market one at a time with intervals between the sales . |
| 17 | Tools , especially bellows , were passed on to the eldest boy , younger sons had the opportunity to rent workshops of their own . |
| 18 | He quoted fully from Miller 's letters on pollination of tulips by bees and on cross-fertilisation of white and red cabbage , and these observations were passed on to the Royal Society ( Phil . |
| 19 | Cuts last year in the Dutch health budget were passed on to the national applied research organization ( TNO ) , whose own grant is being halved by 1994 . |
| 20 | For the user it is as if everyone were signed on to the same LAN . |
| 21 | The tide was up , so people , flaked out on their towels or sprawled in striped deckchairs , were jammed on to a little strip of beach . |
| 22 | At the beginning , although I felt that I wanted to get better , I was hanging on to the secure feeling that being ill brought . |
| 23 | Here the coal that was brought up from underground was tipped on to a slow-moving endless belt : the boys , standing alongside , took off the slag or rubbish that was mixed with the coal . |
| 24 | One was doomed when a bucket of coal was tipped on to a blazing fire and the flames eroded the dust covering , ate at the brittle papier-mâché , flickered at the softness of the plastic bag . |
| 25 | James began construction of the large residential gatehouse or forework , called le dungeon , that was added on to the earlier gatehouse to provide a more fitting apartment for the Keeper — and also for the King , whenever he should visit . |
| 26 | Everyone was climbing on to the top bunks . |
| 27 | The label was sewn on to the crinkled , elasticated hem of the pants , which were boxer shorts , blue-and-white-striped like mattress ticking . |
| 28 | The patient was moved on to a life-support machine and another set of X-rays was ordered in case the first ones had not revealed internal injuries caused by the car accident . |
| 29 | This south façade of Manor Farm was built on to an earlier house in 1725 . |
| 30 | The Peugeot was pushed on to the other side of the road and was in collision with a Sierra driven by Leslie Green , of Runcorn , Cheshire , who was travelling in the opposite direction . |