Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] on to the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The last two boxes were lifted on to the small boat , the men who strained under their weight cursing as they completed their task . |
| 4 | In the Fox case many people connected with the convicted man were hauled on to the national stage by the popular press . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They arrived at the airport , and were rushed on to the 747 to Hong Kong . |
| 8 | Clods of earth were thrown on to the stout elm coffin , and the mourners began to leave . |
| 9 | Now , suddenly , those who clung to these notions were thrown on to the defensive and soon outnumbered . |
| 10 | They were put on to the French market one at a time with intervals between the sales . |
| 11 | Tools , especially bellows , were passed on to the eldest boy , younger sons had the opportunity to rent workshops of their own . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For the user it is as if everyone were signed on to the same LAN . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The label was sewn on to the crinkled , elasticated hem of the pants , which were boxer shorts , blue-and-white-striped like mattress ticking . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The importance of this discovery can not be over-estimated , for through it I was led on to the further discovery of the Primary Control of the workings of all the mechanisms of the human organisms , and this marked the first important stage of my investigation . |
| 19 | Frau Nordern , uncharacteristically meek , was forced on to the defensive . |
| 20 | The midwife rolled up her sleeves and toiled all night by the light of candles stuck in turnips , and just before dawn the baby was delivered on to the same straw mattress on which she had been conceived . |
| 21 | The English response was ineffective : the campaigns of the 1340s and 1350s had been essentially plundering raids , launched into enemy territory from secure bases ; but after 1369 England was thrown on to the defensive in Aquitaine , and she had little idea how to fight a defensive war . |
| 22 | ‘ From 1850 onwards ’ — with the triumph of the railways — ‘ every kind of material was poured on to the unprotesting soil : harsh red bricks , sometimes glazed ; in the north , yellow-green brick from Three Counties , near Hitchin ; slates , pantiles , green tiles ; stucco , artificial stone , and concrete . ’ |
| 23 | This telegram was sent on to the Prime Minister 's office in London and on 29 April Winston Churchill ruled [ HP 41 ] that all anti-partisans ( including by inference " Croats " and " Slovenian White Guards " who were mentioned to Churchill in an accompanying minute by Sir Orme Sargent ) should , as Stevenson urged , " be disarmed and placed in refugee camps " . |