Example sentences of "[vb pp] on to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could be relied on to throw up ‘ bad ’ as well as ‘ good ’ factors . |
| 2 | They could n't be relied on to cope with the situation and our safety at the same time . |
| 3 | The Doctor , the guy with the blue box , could normally be relied on to deal with problems of this magnitude , but on this occasion he had apparently failed to understand that Pool was made of human brains and was in any case crazy . |
| 4 | IMPACT : An arrow shows where the stricken Jumbo plunged on to flats in the complex visited by a shocked Queen Beatrix ( inset ) yesterday |
| 5 | Old Jimbo can still roll back the years and reach into his glorious past , and how he loved it as the crowd roared at every winning shot and then sang Happy Birthday as a giant cake was rolled on to court for him afterwards . |
| 6 | It could now be argued that the unity of wartime should be carried on to deal with peacemaking , demobilization and economic reconstruction . |
| 7 | There is another possibility that they have n't mentioned because the book has n't come on to deal with it yet , but you should know what it is . |
| 8 | Bags of coloured wools are pegged on to scaffolding near the machine and sample lengths of fabric and felted scarves are swagged about the place . |
| 9 | Anything that you design in the ORIGINAL shaping section can of course be saved on to disk for future use . |
| 10 | Anything that you design within the programme can be saved on to disk for future use . |
| 11 | There were few records kept , and those were transferred on to tape by the Americans years ago . |
| 12 | The image is transferred on to paper by a conventional xerographic printing process . |
| 13 | She hung a piece of mutton fat threaded on to string across the window for the blue tits . |
| 14 | Although the majority of these barbarians moved on to Spain in 409 , some stayed behind : there were Alans active in Gaul under their leader Goar for the next thirty years ; they were to be settled in Gallia Ulterior , that is on land to the north of the Loire , in the 440s . |
| 15 | Mr is still moving a motion which refers to the party conference proposals which have now moved on to bills before the house . |
| 16 | Led by Geoff Miller as Botham was attending Viv Richards ' wedding — to which fifty people were invited and two thousand turned up — they beat the Leeward Islands and then moved on to Antigua for the inaugural Test at St John 's , West Indies ' first new Test ground since the opening series of 1929–30 . |
| 17 | There was something wrong with the ballcock , and if both taps were turned on to capacity at the same time there was an overflow outside . |
| 18 | The barbecue is hot and ready , and the water has been turned on to heat for their showers . |
| 19 | In TV , the cost is based on TV Ratings ( TVRs ) , which are the percentage of households in which the TV is turned on to ITV at the time the ad is run ; in press , the cost is per thousand readers ( or , occasionally , circulation ) of the given publication ; in cinema , it is based on audience sizes ; in posters , on people passing the poster and , therefore , able to see it . |
| 20 | The user currently logged on to LIFESPAN via PI is not an assessor of the DC , therefore access is denied . |
| 21 | The user currently logged on to LIFESPAN via PI is not the associated user of the DCs listed , therefore they can not be activated via the package . |
| 22 | The user currently logged on to LIFESPAN via PI is not the associated user of the DC , therefore access is denied . |
| 23 | At least one set of potential buyers , from Holland , has been helicoptered on to Eigg to be shown around the island . |
| 24 | The language of the sources could be simplified for those who had difficulty reading the sources or they could be copied on to tape for listening . |
| 25 | Whatever happens , Tendulkar is no doubt resting easily at night safe in the knowledge that Geoffrey Boycott has already emerged as a sort of godfather figure , willing to be called on to help at any time , to be party to any photo opportunity that may be at hand . |
| 26 | The New Yorker of November 24th lamented that the NSC would not reveal even the age or the precise employment of this man , ‘ who seems to be called on to act as a secret surrogate for something like the entire United States government ’ . |
| 27 | I found my father talking to some of them ; he had been called on to act as an interpreter . |
| 28 | Gavin was called on to act as press liaison officer . |
| 29 | After the strike , however , they were called on to return to their ‘ service role ’ for the miners , and they faced difficulties sustaining both their solidarity and their ability to build on their new-found strength ( see also Waddington et al. , 1990 ) . |
| 30 | I make no secret of my gratitude for being a member of a fortunate generation who have not been called on to fight in Europe . |