Example sentences of "on to the main " in BNC.

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1 However , as soon as it begins to accelerate smoothly , that movement is no longer necessary , and the control should be moved to get the glider balanced nicely on to the main wheel .
2 For those who wish to take a car close and then walk to the top of the hill without too much difficulty , take the A836 to Loch Loyal near Lettermore and climb straight into the corrie Loch Na Creige Riabhaich and on to the main summits .
3 The daily conference over , it 's on to the main activity of the day for me , which is a Long Northwind Patrol .
4 The importance of the riots in pushing the law and order issue , and specifically policing , on to the main political agenda was emphasized by the Liberal leader , David Steel , who argued that ‘ urgent action ’ to prevent a drift into lawlessness was necessary from both a moral and a political perspective ( Hansard , vol. 13 , 26 November 1981 : cols. 1009–11 ) .
5 I ran to the T-junction on to the main road .
6 He fell silent as he wrestled the van round a corner and on to the main road .
7 He turned abruptly away and Willie followed him up the lane and back on to the main street .
8 The band , invited on to the main stage at Reading by Teenage Fanclub after their appearance in the club tent was cancelled due to inclement weather , play Newport TJ 's , and appear as special guests of Pavement at London Astoria .
9 The base tray is as deep as the corpse is high , the head section having been fashioned from a separate sheet of lead and soldered on to the main body of the shell .
10 On to the main courses , which again lean to chicken and prawn tandooris .
11 It becomes important for the counsellor to move on to the main reasons for the meeting , and to begin the process as openly and honestly as possible .
12 Driving with difficulty through torrential rain while thunder and lightning crashed overhead , Jack found himself in a narrow West Country lane , realising that he had missed the turning that would have brought him back on to the main road .
13 The court was told she had ignored a Give Way sign at a junction and had driven on to the main road at about 40 mph .
14 On to the main road , which runs through the island and , apart from the sheep eking out a sparse living on the dead heather , there is little moving until I come to the head of Whalfirth , a long arm of the sea which pushes in from the west until it nearly cuts the island in half .
15 An antechamber may be built on to the main egg-chamber .
16 If we move on to the main agenda .
17 Nowhere is this more apparent than where access to farmland is most easily accomplished and is least organized — in those rural areas which abut directly on to the main centres of the population : the so-called ‘ urban fringe ’ .
18 But er we used to bring these tubs then down from there on to the main road where the rope , the haulage rope travelled you see ?
19 No transporting it on to the main road so they can took took it to the pit bot .
20 Carefully he began to follow it out on to the main road .
21 The boarding annexe at Burleigh was an unlovely square built on to the main house in the nineteen-twenties-it was the cause , in fact , of the original owner going bankrupt and being forced to forsake the licensed trade .
22 Besides , Adam had said it was a long detour to get back on to the main road , if this lane was cut off .
23 Then , when they turned out on to the main road , Luke overtook her with an authoritative toot .
24 The lorry rolled down the lane and on to the main road .
25 It was perfectly possible to see how Billy could have vaulted the fence , got on to the kitchen roof via one of the barrels and from there on to the main roof and all the connecting ones down to Sunil 's house .
26 No I do n't think either erm The whole emphasis of Homeworks is to learn things there which we can then bolt on to the main chain , I 'll be absolutely amazed if in fact Homeworks manages to drive anywhere near the amount of customers through it that M F I does or the problem we had in Yeovil is because it is a very rural area a is not having the M F I name above the door so no that is not the intention .
27 He slid the car into gear and edged out on to the main road , waiting until he had overtaken a pair of cyclists before replying .
28 Strange that David should be coming along at that very moment that she 'd emerged on to the main road .
29 Rachel walked out on to the main road a few minutes later feeling overwhelmed with guilt .
30 Rachel said bitterly as they shot on to the main road .
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