Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] on to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the work of the artists who interpreted their historical reality on to canvas , but the importance in Latin America of the art itself should not be underestimated , particularly the iconography of the monarchy . |
| 2 | It relies on the preferential absorption on to clay minerals of an ultra-violet sensitive dye . |
| 3 | Although several European countries have legal controls on such activities , in the U.K. the law has not been extended in this way , though there may be legal remedies in some cases for those who believe they have been harmed by the use to which the surreptitiously collected information has been put : if , for example , unauthorised entry on to property has occurred , or if there has been breach of confidence or copyright , or if conspiracy to commit a crime , civil wrong , public mischief or some outrageously immoral act can be proved . |
| 4 | They are also very useful for marking delicate lines on to marzipan and icing , and for precise work where fingers would be too large and clumsy . |
| 5 | Coloured shells with white lips ( fig.11 ) and coloured enclaves are often found in habitats where mussels predominate , but coloured dog-whelks can be found in the total absence of the mussels-for instance , around Minehead in West Somerset ( plate 2 ) Moore 's transfers the other way round , white shells on to mussel shores , did not induce any colour change . |
| 6 | We 'd dress up in our party things ; just put a little pinny on to start ; unpack the things from Fortnum 's , put them on to plates . |
| 7 | pouring the molten metal on to water |
| 8 | They used to have exhibitions of their pupils ’ work ; and we went there to help Lottie and showed people in , and we 'd put little pinnies on to start with . |
| 9 | Selecting FILE from the main menu offers you a choice of starting a new design , loading an existing design from the disk , saving the current design on to disk or deleting a previously saved design from the disk . |
| 10 | But Mandy 's gift for drama and her change to a quavering old voice had brought a reluctant smile on to Charity 's lips . |
| 11 | They had developed a method of inserting memories into the brains of amnesiacs , but first those memories had to be recorded with full sensory data on to microchip , and then projected by laser into the brain . |
| 12 | Where it ends , do not continue on track past nature reserve notices but look for narrow path bearing left and passing through small copse on to area of grassy heathland ( b ) . |
| 13 | Year by year the Examiners commended the high quality of the work that was done , and bemoaned the lack of Exhibitions to take successful scholars on to University . |
| 14 | While Eubank would do well to respect Gimenez 's aggressive , hard-punching style — the Paraguayan has lost five times but never been stopped — it is the preservation of his own lavish lifestyle that drives 26-year-old Eubank on to fight after punishing fight . |
| 15 | As she set up her tables and put the big kettle on to boil , she made a point of taking Annie aside . |
| 16 | Just as most large organizations and systems have found important uses for the computer in accounting and housekeeping operations , so also large libraries , whether public , academic or special , have tended to put their acquisitions and other operations on to computer , and considerable experiment has been going on with the applications of computerization to information retrieval . |
| 17 | Doctor Who , especially nowadays , is the type of programme they put fairly new Designers on to test their abilities . |
| 18 | It has to be as , apart from briefly translating ideas for a new character on to paper , he finds ‘ there is so little time . |
| 19 | Edgar noted how the Royal Shakespeare Company 's programmes ' were a treasure house of enticing quotations that led the keen reader on to find and study the books themselves ' . |
| 20 | The bill put forward by President Bush in May 1989 went as far as he thought wise in loading new burdens on to industry . |
| 21 | Experiments using portable computers at excavation sites , in order to enter the written record on to computer at that stage , have been tried . |