Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On Oct. 1 Russian observers who had arrived in Baku , the Azerbaijani capital , on Sept. 28 to monitor the ceasefire , were reported as saying that in Kazakh district there were no hostilities and that they were to move on to Kubatlin district next day .
2 What is the use of continuing our race if it is to go on in darkness ? ’
3 ‘ The key thing in any business we back is to get on with people and be able to judge people 's strengths and weaknesses , ’ says Michael Queen , who is a local director with 3i .
4 We were going to travel together as far as Paris , I was to go on to Calais .
5 In a remarkable record , he was to go on to win two further bars , in France that year and in Germany in 1945 .
6 Third , we know that from 1757 in Rome , the Teatro Argentina paid a particular violinist to take charge of the ballet music separately from the opéra repertory ( a trend that was to catch on in Italy ) .
7 In London in 1331 , he was engaged as master of the new work of the chapter house and cloister of St Paul 's Cathedral by June 1332 , and was to press on to completion , but the chapter house had not quite been finished in 1349 .
8 The posting to Bahrein was cancelled , and I was to stay on in London , at least for the moment .
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