Example sentences of "[vb past] on to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recognising that Uganda permits barter deals , General Motors Trading Corporation in Kenya , for example , negotiated the export of Isuzu buses ( assembled in bond in Kenya ) in exchange for hides and skins which it then sold on to third parties . |
| 2 | Yet in Scotland the majority of the ‘ salariat ’ ( 58 per cent ) clung on to such views . |
| 3 | According to the CIA report on the October 3 coup bid , when the dictator was imprisoned in his bedroom , he phoned his mistress , who passed on to loyal troops his message that the uprising could be thwarted . |
| 4 | It has been given new genetic information by injecting DNA into the nucleus and this will be inherited by all the cells in the body and passed on to future generations via the germ cells . |
| 5 | Such errors would not he passed on to future generations but would die out . |
| 6 | A similar course held at the beginning of the year in Brasov , attended by sixty people including teachers , nurses and doctors , was particularly encouraging as much of the material was , in turn , passed on to other colleagues for their use . |
| 7 | A practical means of identifying approximate levels of output uncertainty also requires that some basic recommendations are made about how this variability can be retained , used and passed on to subsequent operations and applications using the data . |
| 8 | The ten most frequently occurring ( from a corpus frequency count ) are ordered and can either be presented to the user , or passed on to further stages of analysis , depending upon the implementation . |
| 9 | These are then collected , distilled and passed on to social workers and others in basic texts , training manuals , child abuse courses and conferences ( cf Moore , 1985 ) . |
| 10 | Ray Warren left soon after and moved on to higher things , no doubt with some relief . |
| 11 | ( Morley moved on to greater things as Britain 's leading rock journalist and then even greater things as the mentor behind Frankie Goes To Hollywood ) . |
| 12 | It was wound up in 1950 , as Europe moved on to other things . |
| 13 | People smiled , and the conversation moved on to other things . |
| 14 | Ali Cemali , who had in the years between 888 and 891 moved on to other posts , was the first appointee to the new medrese and , though his salary is not specified , the course of his career to this point suggests that it can not have been less than 50 akce a day . |
| 15 | Within four months , however , work had stopped on the reaction and the project moved on to other reactions . |
| 16 | They withdrew their support and Fawcett , whom they had seconded to the project , moved on to other research . |
| 17 | Within Bield one survey showed that half of those tenants who moved on to further care from sheltered housing did so wholly or primarily for mental health reasons . |
| 18 | After two hours of debate the synod voted overwhelmingly to receive the report and moved on to detailed discussion of the legislation . |
| 19 | The horse moved on to unsound ground , feeling the danger and scrabbling for a foothold . |
| 20 | However , I find yoga a bit slow and I like to exercise to music , so I moved on to popmobility-type aerobics which I named ‘ slimobility ’ . |
| 21 | The little town was packed with milling crowds , but many of these were parents , come to collect their sons ' wages before they either went back to work or moved on to another farm . |
| 22 | He put the letter in his Out tray and moved on to another piece of paper , and then he stopped and went back to the first letter . |
| 23 | I came down to earth a bit when Harry Enfield came on to thunderous applause . |
| 24 | The boy rolled over and came on to one knee in a single lunge , and hurling himself at the man , caught him round the thighs with both arms , and swept him with him through the opening . |
| 25 | It veered on to another track and smashed into the approaching passenger train . |
| 26 | The most optimistic view is that evolution has involved a gradual accretion of new structures , added on to primitive ones common to all mammals . |
| 27 | And then she saw that there was a narrow , open doorway in the wall opposite her , which opened on to another chamber . |
| 28 | ( a ) Beer Small resort , joined on to larger Seaton , with fishing still important . |
| 29 | But last Saturday Major climbed on to that soapbox in Luton . |
| 30 | He coaxed the Citation through the downwind leg and turned on to final runway heading , some five miles out from the airport . |