Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] on to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both were villages with large numbers of Hinkley workers and which , a few years before , could have been relied on to toe the company line . |
| 2 | Radios 2 and 3 have irrevocably lost listeners now that they have been squeezed on to FM only ; so will Radio 1 , which is to meet the same fate . |
| 3 | The barbecue is hot and ready , and the water has been turned on to heat for their showers . |
| 4 | I had hoped to be the editor of a book all on my own at last , but this project is important and so urgent that have been drafted on to help . |
| 5 | Based on a series of works by Picasso collectively known as the Antipolis cycle , made in 1946 to 1947 , the images have been engraved on to metal plates by Claude Rodrigues and printed uninked ( a technique known as gaufrage ) . |
| 6 | Returns are kept in the Public Record Office at Chancery Lane , London , under the classification E179 , but an enquirer should first check the availability of those which have been printed on a county basis or have been copied on to microfilm . |
| 7 | I found my father talking to some of them ; he had been called on to act as an interpreter . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In any case , I 've never been called on to deal with anything like this before . |
| 10 | He is also proud that in 37 years he has never lost a single victim whose life he has been called on to save . |
| 11 | The financial effort the nation has been called on to make is a very large one , especially since the cost of construction per kW of nuclear capacity is about 25 per cent higher than the cost per kW of coal-fired capacity . |
| 12 | Mr Charsley begins by pointing out that a Martian who found himself invited to a wedding would imagine that the whole affair had been laid on to honour the cake ( the question as to who would invite a Martian or to which side of the church the ushers would show him or why best men seem to turn into Martians when it comes to speeches , he quite wisely avoids ) . |
| 13 | For whatever reason , he had been put on to piece-work at age 21 , Here we have a documented example of the difference between the stab hand and the linesman . |
| 14 | Its worst loss of nerve was over a Channel 4 programme MI5 's Official Secrets in which Cathy Massiter , a former MI5 case officer responsible for surveillance of the peace movement , alleged that her investigations into CND had been passed on to government ministers for party-political use . |
| 15 | Elland Road 's under-soil heating has been switched on to beat the frost and give Batty his first game since suffering a hairline ankle fracture in October . |
| 16 | The cash has been sent on to HQ where it is sorely needed ( see our Spring issue ) . |