Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] on to [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As might be expected from data reported earlier , positive attitudes as measured by all five factors were significantly associated with willingness to go on to a second round of review and reporting .
2 Television and radio carried brief reports , while the the story squeezed on to the front page of the national evening newspaper Izvestia , between larger accounts of the Congress of People 's Deputies , Russia 's row with Ukraine and an explosion at an Armenian arms depot .
3 She slowly forced the wheel to the left and the car moved on to the hard shoulder and stopped .
4 For example , we would expect to find cells that give an excitatory response to long wavelength light shone on one part of the retina and an inhibitory response to long wavelength light shone on to an adjacent part .
5 National Assembly elections involve two rounds of voting on consecutive Sundays with the two most successful candidates in the first round and candidates polling over 12.5 per cent of the vote going on to the second round .
6 Whether or not this pilot study leads on to a larger project depends upon first , whether or not the aid project goes ahead , and second , whether or not the pilot study indicates that a more ambitious study is feasible .
7 Well away from the motorway now , each new place quickly gave way to further forest and , just as Jenna was beginning to be lulled into a strange peace by the dappled sunlight of the place , the soothing green of nature , the car turned on to a narrow road and began to climb steadily .
8 Then the car hurtled on to the deceptive green meadow — and into it !
9 The front door slammed shut and the Countess collapsed on to the bottom step of the staircase , her legs useless .
10 If the stimulus conditions start with a spectrally pure red light shining on to a red area the cell will fire even though the area looks like a washed-out red to a human observer .
11 Ultimately , de Gaulle 's attempt to hold on to the symbolic status bestowed by 18 June and the war proved his undoing .
12 Far Eastern reports of imminent bid terms from Hongkong & Shanghai Bank caused some early excitement in Midland Bank and , despite a denial , the stock held on to a 10 point rise to 345p .
13 If the subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group are released into the private sector , with all the rhetoric about freedom and competition , one of the rights that will be established is the right of a buyer to sell on to a new owner Whatever safeguards the Minister may tell us , to salve his conscience , are built into the legislation , the truth is that they will disappear immediately further sales take place .
14 One of the most amusing was when a group calling itself the Renewable Energy Generating Board drove on to the proposed reactor site and installed a miniature array of ten-foot-high wind turbines .
15 His family is suing the Kenyan government over his death from a fractured skull after the vehicle veered on to the wrong side of the road on 3 August , hitting the couple from behind .
16 I can not see how they could be established in British literary education , where there are no graduate schools as such , and the narrow , uphill tunnel of A-level work leads on to the rocky , cloudy uplands of the undergraduate degree , with its confused mixture of practical criticism and thematic study , analysis and literary history , coverage and special subjects .
17 One table lamp by the window shone on to the Chinese figures .
18 The window gave on to a small lead roof beyond whose parapet I could see the topmost branches of the elm tree , the ornate brick chimneys of my own House — School House .
19 As confidence in the concept rises the emphasis of the design work moves on to the scheming phase .
20 At the end of the second row , the Design Controller moves on to the next row of the pattern , ready for you to knit the pattern stitches of the second row of the pattern on your third knitting row .
21 Most of us agree that it would be handy to turn the loft into a bedroom , or have a conservatory tacked on to an outside wall , but can you imagine what it must be like living in a church , a factory or a windmill ?
22 He had been in a pub in Hammersmith when a hypnotist jumped on to a low podium and put on a show .
23 Schmidt tapped on the glass and the chauffeur ran the nearside wheels on to a broad stretch of grass fifty feet from the fringe of a beechwood .
24 There he stood leaning against it , his arms outspread , one cheek pressed on to the black wood , with his breath coming in gasps , as if he had just surfaced from drowning .
25 This point leads on to a further problem in sampling — which is non-response .
26 Because if they do n't understand that , there 's no point going on to the next stage .
27 Karrimor had made two special rucsacs , the bike 's top tube clamping on to the reinforced cover flap so that the whole bike sat across your back .
28 Nomad moves on to a larger site
29 The chemical ( 2,4-diamino-5- ( 3,4,5 trimethoxybenzyl ) pyrimidine ) acts as an inhibitor locking on to the active site of the enzyme dihydrofolate reductase ( DHFR ) which catalyses the reduction of dihydrofolate to tetrahydrofolate in microbial and eucaryotic cells ( see figure ) .
30 For instance , when the Yorkshire Television helicopter landed on her doorstep for the first time , it was feared that the experience may be alarming to her , something akin to an alien spaceship settling on to the average suburban lawn .
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