Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] on to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The critical questions have to be turned on to the discipline and relevant examples furnished from within the discipline . |
| 2 | Lady Selvedge allowed herself to be led on to the platform and was introduced in a short speech by Mark , who found himself unable to think of very much to say about her , confused as he was by the talk of ‘ high principles ’ , cocktail parties , and her former husband 's misdeeds which he remembered having with Sophia and Penelope . |
| 3 | Marr ( 1982 ) describes many processes that have yet to be mapped on to the nervous system . |
| 4 | That level of contact must certainly be maintained in future under the Commission , and I would expect the national coaches to be co-opted on to the Commission itself as non-voting members . ’ |
| 5 | Kate had been half aware that the TV cameras were around , but she 'd hardly expected their wedding to be tacked on to the end of the nine o'clock news . |
| 6 | After a moment 's hesitation she sat in one of the large armchairs , half expecting to be pushed on to the settee , but he allowed her to sit alone , only raising an eyebrow as he lowered himself into the matching chair . |
| 7 | Many of the returnees resisted , and had to be carried on to the aircraft by police amidst scuffles , but officials said that " minimum compulsion " had been used , in contrast to the violence which had marked the only previous forced repatriation attempt in December 1989 [ see p. 37121-22 ] . |
| 8 | At least some of the extra cost of stockholding is likely to be passed on to the caterer . |
| 9 | And the extra production costs will undoubtedly have to be passed on to the motorist . |
| 10 | With regard to Bury and Oldham , arrangements existed for referrals to be passed on to the respective social service departments . |
| 11 | The questions of whether to allow increases in the industry 's import fuel bills to be passed on to the consumer and how to treat investment need to be addressed . |
| 12 | The money you save on a hyped discount today will probably have to be passed on to the car 's next buyer as well , although discounts you negotiate privately may not be . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In addition , the heavy tax rates of the late-Seventies would have made it virtually impossible , had one or other of the pair died , for the company in its entirety to be passed on to the children , Laura 's most cherished ideal . |
| 15 | Industrialists have opposed the plan , arguing that it will lead to substantial cost increases which will have to be passed on to the consumer . |
| 16 | The document is basically a briefing document in order that every piece of information erm that is available to the police is then able to be passed on to the officers who are actually going to do the job . |
| 17 | Financing just the first instalment of Labour 's spending plans would raise basic-rate income tax by 3½p in the pound if the entire burden was not to be loaded on to the better-off . |
| 18 | In the same way , herbs were introduced in the sixteenth century from Europe to North America , to be grafted on to the use already in existence of the herbs of the North American Indians who had a considerable and long-standing tradition of herbal cures from the plants native to their own continent . |
| 19 | As they waited for the casket to be hoisted on to the boat , Nathan noticed a preacher on the other side of the quay . |
| 20 | Quite often leases are not granted until some years after the agreement for lease with the result that the fair copy has to be typed on to the landlord 's solicitor 's updated wordprocessing system . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 " . |