Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] on to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data were downloaded on to magnetic tape for long term storage . |
| 2 | Black boxes the size of video-cassettes were welded on to 3,000 cars and hundreds of loops were buried in the roads . |
| 3 | Pickers were diverted on to another plot after the theft was discovered . |
| 4 | Each of the items , specially written for the project or adapted from APU practical tasks were written on to separate sheets and put in position along with pupil answer sheets and the apparatus for the task . |
| 5 | By hook or by crook crews , competent or not , were got on to striking ships , by force if by no other method ; and the union men retorted in kind . |
| 6 | The shares were sold on to Canadian pension funds , but in February Lockwood retrieved them with backing from 3i , in return for a 30 per cent stake . |
| 7 | The range and richness of sport as a component of popular culture has been overlooked by those who take a ‘ diffusionist ’ view , concentrating on how middle-class games and values were passed on to industrial workers via muscular Christians and social reformers . |
| 8 | They were loaded on to two trucks at the airport , and were being moved across the tarmac when one of the bodies exploded . |
| 9 | There was a storm as we passed the southern tip of Cuba , and the ship I was on was smashed on to offshore rocks by the weather . |
| 10 | Meanwhile my cotton body was wound on to great bolts , each one five metres long . |
| 11 | It is quite clear that nothing is missing from the other end of the Interludium as it was copied on to this vellum : the vellum had already been cut to its surviving top edge by the time the Interludium came to be written on to it . |
| 12 | It 's just conceivable that one or other of those houses was passed on to another organisation … |
| 13 | The case was passed on to German Self Aid , who Rave £50 . |
| 14 | The material was poured on to hemispherical centering in which the coffered panels had been inserted . |