Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] on to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The content of the new journalism was appalling but at least it indicated that the masses could read and apart from being useful that offered the prospect that readers might move on to better things .
2 Right we 'll move on to five point four .
3 If they handle it , they 'll go on to another wing and that 's when the hard work begins .
4 ‘ She loved the way you could stride on to any stage with that easy cat-like walk of yours and instantly dominate the place .
5 But the three-minute song is just a left-over from when that was all you could fit on to one side of a 78 record .
6 All of this involved taking both parents ’ sex cells with their half-complement of DNA signals in the chromosomes , and bringing them together so that the cells could clamp on to each other and start dividing and growing .
7 For example , she uses Let's go on to another topic where a literal translation of the Hebrew would be ‘ Perhaps we shall/should go on to another topic ’ and Let's begin with the question of defence policy where the Hebrew is literally ‘ Perhaps we shall start with the question of defence policy ’ .
8 Emboldened by his success , the being could go on to parallel transport the vector a along the closed path NABN in Fig. 3.8 .
9 Out of seventy children in the village school only sixteen could go on to further education after the age of ten or eleven .
10 If you wanted to shorten the circuit you could press on to Black Sail Hut .
11 She could quite happily spend a few days here , just remembering her own childhood : the train set , the beautifully designed doll 's house , the football game … it made her sad that she had no children of her own so that she could cling on to that childhood that she so often missed .
12 The exploitation of land and animals has gone on far too long — after fifty years of experimentation , let's move on to better things .
13 O K , let's move on to maximum benefit .
14 Other questions may lead on to further enquiry and research .
15 Successful work using primary evidence may lead on to creative expression , which may come from a synthesis of the information gathered from the documentary evidence .
16 But since we are in agreement , let's go on to other things .
17 Let's go on to another subject which is another subject we 'll be dealing with today .
18 For example , she uses Let's go on to another topic where a literal translation of the Hebrew would be ‘ Perhaps we shall/should go on to another topic ’ and Let's begin with the question of defence policy where the Hebrew is literally ‘ Perhaps we shall start with the question of defence policy ’ .
19 And erm that would carry on until such times as when the foreman or whoever would deem them fit to be a squad that could carry out er a heavier job if you want put it that way , where they would progress on to heavier plates etcetera , and do watertight work .
20 He had in those days of innocence seen the Edition as a finite task that would lead on to other things .
21 And since the central figure in all this was Vincent d'Indy , I shall go on to present evidence that appears to explain his motives both in ‘ improving ’ Rameau and in concealing what he had done .
22 ‘ Kelly believed she , too , would go on to other things that God planned for her . ’
23 ‘ Kelly believed she too would go on to other things God had got planned for her . ’
24 Spend the immediate post-Smiths period saying how he was the talented one and would go on to great things .
25 There are always gon na be a a set of of people in any area who erm who will latch on to racist attitudes and racist acts if if someone comes in waving that as an you know , as an organized activity .
26 From Table 6.4 , 99.86 per cent of records will be stored in their home cylinder and only 0.14 per cent will overflow on to another cylinder .
27 She will move on to simple arithmetic , addition then subtraction .
28 In the Profitboss 's team Hilda in Telephone Sales will not simply " take orders " but will sell on to interested customers .
29 Psychological studies could provide some answers , but it is not obvious that the subprocesses of language , identified by the psychologist , will map on to individual brain areas , any more than the computational processes of a digital computer map on to individual parts of its hardware .
30 ‘ I reckon he will hold on to that England No. 9 shirt for years to come . ’
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