Example sentences of "[to-vb] on to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He compares these people with the more conservative of our piscatorial ancestors who , a billion years ago , resisted the temptation to clamber on to dry land and decided to stay where they were . |
| 2 | Items to carry on to future agendas included the MacDonalds and affiliation and working with other groups . |
| 3 | But he speaks the , the wo A Ann was her name , she said that he speaks too softly to go on to that . |
| 4 | It is a very long novel ; on the other hand it seems to be one of the best novels ever written , and I would strongly recommend somebody who has perhaps read a little George Eliot to go on to that . |
| 5 | Business was so good a new home had to be found when the Comedy had to go on to other previously arranged bookings . |
| 6 | I do recommend starting with a nine sheet pattern ( see page 77 ) but a fairly simple pattern just to begin with should give you confidence to go on to bigger and better things . |
| 7 | The 18+ examinations were seen , as the Secretary of State himself recognized , again partly as another such certificate for those who had stayed the next voluntary two years at school , partly as an aptitude test for those who were to go on to higher education , partly as a still more specific entry requirement for admission to specified courses in institutions of higher education . |
| 8 | During the 1980s , there has been a marked decline in the proportion of secondary students who gain the Sudan School Certificate which enables them to go on to higher education or enter the civil service . |
| 9 | No longer did a sixth former of limited means need to win a scholarship to go on to higher education : admission secured a grant from the Local Authority . |
| 10 | And literacy is not the end of the road : there is the added incentive that those adults who can read and write now have the opportunity to go on to higher education through a special rural matriculation scheme . |
| 11 | They may not be sure exactly what career they want , or whether to go on to higher education . |
| 12 | It is possible for a student who copes comfortably with the modules to go on to Higher in S6 . |
| 13 | A colt by Shirley Heights , he is sure to go on to better things following a narrow debut victory over Shepton Mallet at Newmarket in July . |
| 14 | A colt by Shirley Heights , he is sure to go on to better things following a narrow debut victory over Shepton Mallet at Newmarket in July . |
| 15 | We have brought pride back to Teesside and we want to go on to greater things . ’ |
| 16 | Curing the deficiency in this area , thirdly , is the necessary base for a much larger proportion of our age groups than at present ( about 15% ) to go on to advanced education — in both academic and especially applied studies . |
| 17 | You skirt Godinton Park to go on to Great Chart . |
| 18 | While Miss Turner left halfway through to go on to another show , Miss Collins popped backstage at the end to congratulate the actress . |
| 19 | Because people have done one job , during the day , and then having to go on to another job at night , and make no mistake , that , you know , this is the sort of legislation that we need , to protect us , the public from what , you know , the consequences of somebody working |
| 20 | Should girls brought up in Britain be allowed to go on to further education ? |
| 21 | If we could be certain ( as we ought ) that every person of 16 had the opportunity to go on to further education or practical , examinable work , then we could drop the 16+ examination without loss , and with a possible simplification of the school curriculum up to that point . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , no , Ross — this is a terrible mistake ! ’ she cried in a desperate attempt to cling on to some form of sanity , wriggling violently to try and escape his embrace as he almost ran up the steps and entered the cottage . |
| 23 | My feet were sore , I was roasted like Sunday pork , and I did n't even have the money to leap on to one of the buses that flashed past me . |
| 24 | It is one of the facts of the computer world that there have always been far too many different printer types for the programmers to support and printer manufacturers have never managed to catch on to this simple fact . |
| 25 | Yes , it might , it might , but , but , but now you 're getting a little bit , you 're getting a bit too , too sophisticated now , we 're going to come on to that later . |
| 26 | Erm , and I I would like to come on to that immediately if I may , but again it does indicate erm , a movement , in the right direction of getting more er women employees into higher management levels . |
| 27 | I know we 're going to come on to this again later . |
| 28 | See basically what you 're talking about is , you know when you close somebody , and I 've got to come on to this , because this is the , this is the key to selling deals . |
| 29 | Much impressed with my narrow escape , Dad carried the object downstairs on top of the sand in the fire bucket — it did come in handy after all — and we sat around gazing at it , drinking the inevitable tea and storing up this tale to pass on to all our friends and relations . |
| 30 | The horse that forgot about the tiger that lived in its lair at the bottom of the hill , or at any time disregarded the danger , would very soon become the tiger 's dinner , and so lack the opportunity to pass on to future generations its genes for a poor memory and a low threshold of fear . |