Example sentences of "on to the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever has to be copied is typed or handwritten on to the exposed surface of the special paper creating a reverse image in carbon on the back of the paper . |
| 2 | Joe now withdrew his hand from the desk and , rising to his feet , he looked down on to the upturned faces of the two men and said , ‘ My mother may remain in the house as long as she wishes , but the running of it , the accounts and such , I wish to leave in your control . |
| 3 | Wedges of oceanic crust are thrust up on to the overlying sediments of the subduction zone and uplift ensues ( Fig. 3.16 ) . |
| 4 | She dashed clear of the control room and on to the second half of the observation gallery , thirty metres above the main executive transporter bay . |
| 5 | This leads on to the second part of the book , in which the author begins by showing that there is a deep ambiguity in our basic concepts of causality and chance . |
| 6 | The first three years of his Oxford course of studies would have included grammar , logic and rhetoric ( the trivium ) , after which the student had to attend formal sessions of dispute and argument before becoming a Bachelor of Arts and going on to the second part of the course , music , astronomy , geometry and arithmetic . |
| 7 | He began explaining , straight on , then first right , on to the second set of lights … etcetera … etcetera … it 's rather a long walk , sir , he concluded . |
| 8 | I tried boxing when I was fifteen and won a bout against an opponent who was smaller than me and who normally wore thick glasses ; I went on to the second round of the competition and was beaten flat in thirty seconds by a demon midget who hammered me onto the ropes and kept hitting me until the referee stopped the bout before I suffered permanent damage . |
| 9 | Secure on to the long sides of the house ( two on each side ) with a little royal icing . |
| 10 | One by one we clambered out of the boat and on to the slippery rocks of an inlet . |
| 11 | She held on to the far side of the desk , and moaned . |
| 12 | I was going to put Dave Reynolds on to the Jenner part of this ; will that be okay with you ? ’ |
| 13 | An inexpensive sweet Muscat which is from the Mediterranean coast of Spain , boasting sultana and honey notes tagged on to the familiar medley of citrus fruits . |
| 14 | Then I realized he was n't stopping outside Sunil 's house , but carrying on to the other end of the road . |
| 15 | Sex is an animal quality which must somehow he pushed on to the other side of the great divide . |
| 16 | The Peugeot was pushed on to the other side of the road and was in collision with a Sierra driven by Leslie Green , of Runcorn , Cheshire , who was travelling in the opposite direction . |
| 17 | Move the cursor to a blank line or on to the first character of the text to follow the blank lines |
| 18 | ‘ And now , on to the first part of our programme . ’ |
| 19 | I sat unmoving , adding up all the factors over and over , getting the same answer , while Posi took us up into Highlight and on to the first Netline of our route . |
| 20 | This discourages mounting adhesive from oozing on to the lower surface of the preparation , where it would affect attachment on the lapping machine 's vacuum chucks . |
| 21 | Both were from the same village as Mr Shahiduddin Postman ; both had managed to get educated and to break out of the village on to the lower rungs of academia . |
| 22 | Then when he wanted it to go again he used to get the th the belt , the leather belt , and er sort of hook it on to the lower end of the cast iron pulley and follow it round until it went on . |
| 23 | The union leader told Sunday Life that Mr Bradley had passed his letter on to the appropriate department of the Northern Ireland Office which drafts electoral law here . |
| 24 | Singer Mark Lanegan and bass chap Van Conner are both suffering foot injuries and consequently hobble on to the narrow confines of the Powerhaus stage . |
| 25 | But as we continued on to the broad plateau of Geal-Charn , not named on the ordnance survey map , we saw a figure in the distance . |
| 26 | Karl tucked Erika 's arm under his as they crossed the bridge over the green , splintered ice of the Spree which formed a chill moat around the great museums , by the great dome of the Protestant Cathedral , and on to the broad stretch of Unter den Linden . |
| 27 | Mineral wool slabs are stuck on to the outer face of the wall and held by special fixing devices . |
| 28 | The victim , who has not yet been named , died instantly when he fell on to the middle lane of an unlit section of the M25 between Merstham and Reigate , Surrey . |
| 29 | If desired , a message could also be piped on to the middle band of the balloon . |
| 30 | Then he attached a rope to it and scuttered down to tie the other end on to the front axle of the Golf . |