Example sentences of "be [verb] on to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage . |
| 2 | In Britain in nineteen ninety three we are hanging on to the remains of our welfare state by our fingertips . |
| 3 | Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park . |
| 4 | Two square escutcheon plates , each incised with a cross , have been riveted on to the surface above and below the keyhole . |
| 5 | Casual work is growing most rapidly in the service and retail sectors but even traditional manufacturing companies are catching on to the trend . |
| 6 | But the press had already been tipped off : Mrs Simpson 's car had been booked on to the Channel steamer in her own name . |
| 7 | That is not the case when they are added on to the normal uprating statement , as has happened today . |
| 8 | The screens are slotted on to an amazing new printer which cost the company an arm and a leg a couple of years ago . |
| 9 | ‘ It should be stressed that no debts arising from non–payment of the community Charge have been added on to the Council Tax bills . ’ |
| 10 | After serving a further 20 per cent of their sentence in a semi-open regime , inmates are moved on to an open system ; |
| 11 | In recent years the entire MI5 registry has been transferred on to a computer at a Ministry of Defence office in Mount Row , Mayfair . |
| 12 | Lateral and medial stabilisers are incorporated on to the outsole to prevent rollover while the design features a flex notch , which has been cut into the outsole to counter any restriction of movement . |
| 13 | Then they had been sinking on to the bed and , between kisses and caresses , peeling the clothes hungrily from one another , until at last they lay naked , side by side . |
| 14 | Names of infant Mulverins had recently been scratched on to the wall . |
| 15 | She had either fallen or been pushed on to a spike on the plough ; the level of her blood alcohol gave some credence to the idea that she had fallen . |
| 16 | Candidates from both the UK and overseas are accepted on to the full-time programme . |
| 17 | MORE than 500 Chinese who wanted to be smuggled into the United States have been moved on to an American base in the Marshall Islands after a six-week voyage from Hong Kong , the US Coast Guard said yesterday . |
| 18 | In some roofs tiles are hung on to the battens with only every third row nailed . |
| 19 | ‘ And those statistics are transferred on to the computer ? ’ |
| 20 | Yeah so we get one and the you 're going on to the next one . |
| 21 | Sunday night rounds the event off with a bizarre juxtaposing of gigs : downstairs in the main hall it 's Mayhem Central , where the venue 's somewhat implausible design means that unless you 're stuffed on to the raised dancefloor you can see bugger all of the bands . |
| 22 | Johnson , just debating , we 're getting on to the whole idea of Johnson 's world and the link though it worked out the same I 'd say . |
| 23 | We 're moving on to the next paper . |
| 24 | In October 1626 he had been drafted on to the loan commission for Yorkshire , and was also a commissioner in June 1627 to finance shipbuilding using recusancy fines , which commissions were headed by Sir John Savile ( later first Baron Savile of Pontefract , q.v . ) . |
| 25 | When both trunks had been hauled on to the far bank they used the ropes to bind them together at various points along their length . |
| 26 | In anticipation of bumper Christmas sales , new stock had been crowded on to every available surface and spilled across the floor . |
| 27 | On July 14 Ghozali gave evidence to the court about the events of June 1991 , when the army had been called on to the streets of Algiers to combat FIS supporters [ see p. 38312 ] . |
| 28 | We 're moving to Shanghai with mixed feelings , as we 've heard we 'll be staying in the Peace Hotel , in the noisy centre of the city , but it 's nice to feel now that we are moving on to the home stretch . |
| 29 | The super smooth 2.5-litre intercooled turbo-diesel , quite the best of the bunch , is pepped up 4bhp to 98bhp ; the 3-litre V-6 petrol has been breathed on to the tune of an extra 8bhp , at 147bhp . |
| 30 | Henry had been invited on to the chat show chiefly because the new snooker champion was the guest of honour . |