Example sentences of "[be] [verb] on to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But while County are tipped to go up this time , Francis could be stepping on to a bigger stage before next spring . |
| 2 | I will definitely be hanging on to the sweat-stained handkerchief that Tom Jones tossed to my mother back in the Sixties . |
| 3 | My Working Group recommended that knowledge about language should be an integral part of work in English , not a separate body of knowledge to be added on to the traditional English curriculum . |
| 4 | The DT 2600 E has about as many features as can be squeezed on to a hot air gun . |
| 5 | An antechamber may be built on to the main egg-chamber . |
| 6 | Marr ( 1982 ) describes many processes that have yet to be mapped on to the nervous system . |
| 7 | The history specialists in the secondary school for the area may also be able to offer advice , especially as pupils from the catchment area will ultimately be going on to the secondary school . |
| 8 | Gill will be going on to the Namarroi area to take part in an evaluation with the CCM . |
| 9 | It was also alleged for instance that women were too docile to make really good workers , too lacking in spirit and ambition : " Boys [ i.e. apprentices ] would claim to be shifted on to the higher branches of the trade " . |
| 10 | Their anxiety may be displaced on to the actual ceremony , making the responses correctly , being the centre of attention , or on to details of the reception or party to be held afterwards . |
| 11 | It can not be grafted on to an alien stem . |
| 12 | On warm days the area between the lawn and water surface had constantly to be watched so that , immediately signs of shrinkage appeared , water could be sprayed on to the puddled surface . |
| 13 | Back neck stitches can be run on to a few rows of waste yarn and removed leaving you with a set of shoulder stitches on each side . |
| 14 | These exercises , which are easily and quickly generated , can be presented to your students either as printed worksheets — you will be provided with the answers on a separate sheet — or can be put on to a floppy disk so that a student or group of students can work on screen . |
| 15 | A thick lagging jacket should be put on to the hot water tank . |
| 16 | Sections that have been saved to disk from other designs can also be imported on to the current grid , so a completely new pattern could be created simply by combining various sections from other designs . |
| 17 | Commitment to sport has to be freely given ; it has to be fun ; it can not be foisted on to the poor or the wayward from above because it is good for them . |
| 18 | The piece can then be glued on to the damaged area and made ready to receive the gold leaf . |
| 19 | Failing a settlement , a dispute would be passed on to a binational panel , on which non-NAFTA members could serve to enhance their impartiality . |
| 20 | You may want to be sure a certain heirloom — perhaps worth little financially — will be passed on to a particular person . |
| 21 | In the context of futures trades on recognised or designated investment exchanges , money received by a member firm must often be passed on to an intermediate broker or to the exchange or clearing house concerned where it will be combined in an account with funds attributable to other clients . |
| 22 | They may share their syringes and if one of them has HIV , the needle will become infected and the virus could be passed on to the other person . |
| 23 | If one of these people has HIV , it may be passed on to the other person . |
| 24 | I mean y I think the charges that banks are making in order to make up some of their losses , they 're going to be passed on to the average investor , you know the average client , so erm you know the Halifax will do it free , I 've heard recently that they are actually charging for er holding your deeds . |
| 25 | With regard to Bury and Oldham , arrangements existed for referrals to be passed on to the respective social service departments . |
| 26 | It is a genetically-linked defect and will be passed on to the white offspring of the deaf mother . |
| 27 | Man is a god in ruins , thought Emerson , and perhaps at the end of the twentieth century much the same could be said of his world , a still beautiful but ravaged paradise which , regardless of the tenets of sustainable development will not be passed on to the next century in better or even the same condition , in fact , almost certainly in worse condition as a result of meeting the needs of another billion or so people . |
| 28 | But to the Lamarckians it seemed much more natural to assume that the wasting away of an individual 's eyes when there was no light would be passed on to the next generation , resulting in a rapid loss of eyesight in the whole population . |
| 29 | Hence , governments interested in reducing these disparities have introduced various taxes on large wealth holders , directed in particular at reducing the extent to which large accumulations of wealth can be passed on to the next generation . |
| 30 | The blinds can be fitted on to a wooden batten with touch-and-close fastener for easy removal , and are operated by pulling up cords which pass through rings on the back of the blind , then through screw-eyes on the underside of the batten . |