Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] on to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again he knew momentary panic as the freezing water mounted around him , until he felt his feet settle on to hard rock beneath the mud . |
| 2 | Along the length of the coast the story was now everywhere the same : Allied troops hanging on to vulnerable footholds , saved from annihilation only by their dogged courage . |
| 3 | Items to carry on to future agendas included the MacDonalds and affiliation and working with other groups . |
| 4 | The next type of planned town includes those which are reasonably well dated to the tenth to thirteenth centuries and which were clearly new planned urban centres added on to existing villages by their owners as attempts to encourage trade . |
| 5 | Studios were built and additional stages added on to old complexes . |
| 6 | I 've known teachers go on to other posts in the private sector without any trouble after far worse things than you will ever be accused of . |
| 7 | The earliest sports images of the 1984 Summer Los Angeles Olympic Games lead on to graphic architectural landscapes , floral illusions , environmental impressions and memories of exotic travel destinations combined to express the moment , sensation and experience . ’ |
| 8 | There appeared to have been cross-party complicity in dividing up funds from " commissions " taken by party officials ( and in some cases passed on to national party headquarters ) , amounting to 5-10 per cent of the total cost of projects . |
| 9 | Such a dramatic decline made possible an improvement in the opportunity index , the measure of the percentage of all eleven-year-old children going on to secondary education . |
| 10 | By 1939 , nearly 80 per cent of pupils going on to secondary schools came from public elementary schools and the balance from private schools of various kinds . |
| 11 | As Chalongphob Sussangkarn of Thailand 's Development Research Institute points out , even if all primary-school pupils go on to secondary school from now on , ‘ there will still be 70% of Thailand 's workforce in the year 2000 who will have only primary education or less . ’ |
| 12 | The effect of falling school rolls and DES cuts in teacher-training quotas has been some reduction in the numbers of students on courses ; however , recruitment in 1981 was still considerable and , in 1981 , the polytechnics had 1,300 students enrolled on to teacher-training courses . |
| 13 | It is a far cry from the Regency Gothic of twenty years earlier , when parsonages sported wrought-iron verandahs looking on to wide lawns and cedar trees . |
| 14 | Having drawn the cellulose from one section of the wood , the hyphae reach on to adjacent sections of timber to continue the process , while the strands of the initial attack unite into an equally fast-spreading cotton-wool-like growth known as mycelium . |
| 15 | The elaborate leaving cards prepared for colleagues going on to new jobs or retiring are a remarkable testimony to the good humour of advertising people who see the comedy in the serious daily " grind " of their work . |
| 16 | A number of squat triangular doors opened on to other rooms and tunnels . |
| 17 | The upper floors give on to stepped and landscaped terraces , some internal , some external protected by the umbrella roof . |
| 18 | But about half of the 200,000 people who fall into either of those categories go on to full-time education and become entitled to student relief of the community charge . |