Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data were downloaded on to magnetic tape for long term storage . |
| 2 | But they did not want change and the link to be forged if it were to lead on to wild and radical measures for democracy , equality , and a social revolution that would threaten their larger position of power within the developing economy . |
| 3 | Each of the items , specially written for the project or adapted from APU practical tasks were written on to separate sheets and put in position along with pupil answer sheets and the apparatus for the task . |
| 4 | By hook or by crook crews , competent or not , were got on to striking ships , by force if by no other method ; and the union men retorted in kind . |
| 5 | The shares were sold on to Canadian pension funds , but in February Lockwood retrieved them with backing from 3i , in return for a 30 per cent stake . |
| 6 | Contracts of employment were unknown and I remember the gloom at home if Dad announced that the works were going on to short time . |
| 7 | People would still be living here who had been in residence since before the war and were holding on to controlled tenancies until dislodged by offers of cash or other accommodation , but they would not be there much longer . |
| 8 | The range and richness of sport as a component of popular culture has been overlooked by those who take a ‘ diffusionist ’ view , concentrating on how middle-class games and values were passed on to industrial workers via muscular Christians and social reformers . |
| 9 | There was a storm as we passed the southern tip of Cuba , and the ship I was on was smashed on to offshore rocks by the weather . |
| 10 | Meanwhile my cotton body was wound on to great bolts , each one five metres long . |
| 11 | Peter Graham Scott , who made some episodes of Danger Man and the TV play The Quare Fellow , was working on the legendary series The Troubleshooters when he was called on to direct several episodes of Sir Francis Drake , including the opening one . |
| 12 | The case was passed on to German Self Aid , who Rave £50 . |
| 13 | He stood up on his chair all the way through lunch , with the gravy running down his great red face on to his bib and flying off the spoon he was waving on to other people 's clothes ; and in his loud , pharyngitic voice he kept up a perpetual background noise of questions and comments . |
| 14 | The material was poured on to hemispherical centering in which the coffered panels had been inserted . |