Example sentences of "[vb pp] on to the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Founders moved on to the next question . |
| 3 | And by now the Prime Minister has moved on to the next sterling crisis . |
| 4 | This system involves a continuous rotation of paddocks in which the susceptible younger calves graze ahead of the immune adults and remain long enough in each paddock to remove only the leafy upper herbage before being moved on to the next paddock . |
| 5 | As I recall it , I was a parcel , handed on to the next bloke at the end of the day . |
| 6 | ‘ No more chocolate , thanks , ’ she said again , then stared down at the topaz surrounded by a cluster of diamonds which Vitor had slid on to the third finger of her left hand . |
| 7 | The anti-violence lobby resulted in a lot of romantic schmaltz being grafted on to the fifth series . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The particles themselves remain separate and discrete when it comes to being passed on to the next generation . |
| 12 | Then those same genes either get passed on to the next generation or they do n't . |
| 13 | This hatred builds up and is then passed on to the next generation . |
| 14 | Only a proportion of these are passed on to the next stage of conscious analysis . |
| 15 | While physicians advised sparing use of the ointment , the quacks prescribed it liberally to great effect and had usually passed on to the next town before the inevitable relapses and the not infrequent deaths — results of over-treatment — had occurred . |
| 16 | Sean was so astonished that he almost swallowed the paten as well as the host and Paddy , his face bright red as his hair , hurriedly passed on to the next communicant . |