Example sentences of "be [verb] on to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage . |
| 2 | The tensions and anxieties which are inevitably entailed when a more or less racially homogeneous society becomes multi-racial are displaced on to a solitary figure — the leering bootboy . |
| 3 | Norwegian Jacquard : This stitch design option will allow you to knit many different colours in a design style that is best described as based on the traditional Scandinavian type of pattern , where small designs are laid on to a multi-coloured striped background . |
| 4 | The DT 2600 E has about as many features as can be squeezed on to a hot air gun . |
| 5 | When I 've bought my sons their shirts I 'm going on to a good academic bookshop to get an item for myself — a book called something like Syntax and Significance : A Cognitive Approach . |
| 6 | These exercises , which are easily and quickly generated , can be presented to your students either as printed worksheets — you will be provided with the answers on a separate sheet — or can be put on to a floppy disk so that a student or group of students can work on screen . |
| 7 | Failing a settlement , a dispute would be passed on to a binational panel , on which non-NAFTA members could serve to enhance their impartiality . |
| 8 | You may want to be sure a certain heirloom — perhaps worth little financially — will be passed on to a particular person . |
| 9 | The blinds can be fitted on to a wooden batten with touch-and-close fastener for easy removal , and are operated by pulling up cords which pass through rings on the back of the blind , then through screw-eyes on the underside of the batten . |
| 10 | And the leisure department is to be ordered on to a tough economy drive , paring back all unnecessary expenditure . |
| 11 | The slide-rules had been passed on to a Swedish group known as Bread and Fish , which was packing them together with clothes and medicines for southern Africa , when arsonists burned down the warehouse . |
| 12 | The findings of these investigations , together with the Chief Constable 's proposed course of action , are passed on to a key monitoring and supervisory body , the Police Complaints Authority ( PCA ) , which may , if it has reason to be dissatisfied , overturn the Chief Constable 's decision . |
| 13 | Others were painted on to a dry plaster surface . |
| 14 | Some 4,000 media workers covering the conference were based in an exhibition hall 2 km away , where the proceedings were relayed on to a giant screen . |
| 15 | At less exalted levels of society , economies had to be made ; often many subjects were crammed on to a single plate . |
| 16 | It may also have been the case that magistrates were less willing to overturn the appeals of disappointed claimants , since they were well enough aware that the increasing burden of relief was being thrown on to a decreasing number of shoulders as the proportion of the village populations either needing assistance or at least no longer able to pay poor rates increased . |
| 17 | The tide was up , so people , flaked out on their towels or sprawled in striped deckchairs , were jammed on to a little strip of beach . |
| 18 | Modernity is defined against pre-modernity , reason against irrationality and superstition , and this divide is mapped on to a symbolic geography that counterposes the West and its Orient . |
| 19 | The Colour badge is stitched on to a large piece of scarlet cloth matching the material of the jacket . |
| 20 | Largely because the Moon is acted on to a significant extent by both the Sun and the Earth its orbital elements are subject to relatively rapid changes . |
| 21 | One tool commonly ignored by many sedimentary petrographers is a Shadowmaster® , or similar equipment , where a thin section is projected on to a ground glass screen to produce an image ( a shadowgraph ) . |
| 22 | Sometimes the wet ink which is sprayed on to a horizontal board can spread out sideways , which results in a reasonably-uniform layer in the middle of the board , but an excessively thick border of ink around the edges of the board . |
| 23 | Modern gas blowlamps are cleaner and safer to use than the old-fashioned paraffin type and , for most jobs , the type which is fitted on to a disposable cartridge is perfectly adequate . |
| 24 | The pool is lowered on to a prepared crushed gravel base , immediately filled with water , and at the same time , a gravel back-fill is poured in between the pool and the soil . |
| 25 | Here the coal that was brought up from underground was tipped on to a slow-moving endless belt : the boys , standing alongside , took off the slag or rubbish that was mixed with the coal . |
| 26 | One was doomed when a bucket of coal was tipped on to a blazing fire and the flames eroded the dust covering , ate at the brittle papier-mâché , flickered at the softness of the plastic bag . |
| 27 | The patient was moved on to a life-support machine and another set of X-rays was ordered in case the first ones had not revealed internal injuries caused by the car accident . |
| 28 | I climbed into my paper nightie and was helped on to a narrow trolley by a second Farrah Fawcett blow-up doll ( but punctured ) , then gazed adoringly up the nose of a Greek god as he wheeled me into an open lift and down to the basement operating theatre to a waiting : ‘ Hi , I 'm Andy , your anaesthesiologist . ’ |
| 29 | The inter-war German democracy was precarious precisely because it was grafted on to a social order that had failed to create the very basic social and political conditions that would allow a democratic system to flourish , but also because while German expansion in the east had been halted , the drive to the east was still seen as a tantalising solution to all of Germany 's problems . |
| 30 | She was put on to a life-support machine , which her parents , Mike and Jackie , were told would be her constant companion . |