Example sentences of "on to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We then move on to the post-election scene . |
| 2 | The trade unions are a problematic force both in and on the uneasy edges of the system of power ; a variety of factors have conspired to produce an upsurge of competing participants and conflicting demands ; elected governments have frequently shown themselves to be weak and vacillating in the face of pressures and problems ; and certain democratic aspects of the British polity have heaped problems on to the capitalist economy in a way that has " crowded out " opportunities for growth . |
| 3 | Their army flees on to the exposed sea bed , and there gets bogged down . |
| 4 | Brush liberally on to the exposed wood until the soft wood fibres are saturated . |
| 5 | Whatever has to be copied is typed or handwritten on to the exposed surface of the special paper creating a reverse image in carbon on the back of the paper . |
| 6 | Re-fix the plastic rose direct on to the exposed timber noggin below the plaster . |
| 7 | Silence activity — gathering of the group : a bridge between preparing and receiving , between individual and community ; a personal invitation to move on to the sacred experience . |
| 8 | Few 24-hour races ever go the full distance — fans usually burst on to the sacred tarmac 20 minutes or so before the official end |
| 9 | The first firm to move on to the revamped Southwich Yard , now part of a 110-acre enterprise park , at Sunderland will be the tunnelling equipment manufacturer Herrenknecht International , the Tyne and Wear Development Corporation said . |
| 10 | SHE teetered on to the vast Playhouse stage and into the Pointer Sisters hit I 'm So Excited — and suddenly the audience was too . |
| 11 | When he emerged on to the vast concourse he saw Kuhlmann standing at the entrance to one of the platforms opposite the ticket office . |
| 12 | They 're now even on to the vile Trade Union Reform Bill , they 're accepting it admittedly but but they 're accepting it , but it 's in the wrong Bill it 's in the wrong place it should be up in the front . |
| 13 | One hand was tangled in her hair , holding her down , and with the other he traced a line past her collarbone and down on to the softer flesh beneath , tugging the neckline of her dress lower and lower , until Folly could feel it brush the swollen aureoles of her breasts under the silk of her bra . |
| 14 | Not content with just the interminable Benson and Hedges World Series Cup , the players also had to fit in the Benson and Hedges Challenge between the fourth and fifth Tests , a jamboree dreamed up to latch on to the sporting frenzy which the TV and marketing people had decreed would seize the nation when the America 's Cup yacht races were staged off Fremantle . |
| 15 | It 's then on to the inter-80 class at the age of ten , riding six-speed 80cc machines . |
| 16 | Hold this left transfer tool in your left hand and take the three stitches at right of centre on to the second transfer tool in the same way . |
| 17 | She dashed clear of the control room and on to the second half of the observation gallery , thirty metres above the main executive transporter bay . |
| 18 | Leading on to the second half I 'd er very quickly like to introduce you to Huw er from er one of the U K's if in fact er worldwide now leading er leading developers of of financial software , and he will be er talking to th talking through to you his experiences er in developing with . |
| 19 | This leads on to the second part of the book , in which the author begins by showing that there is a deep ambiguity in our basic concepts of causality and chance . |
| 20 | The first three years of his Oxford course of studies would have included grammar , logic and rhetoric ( the trivium ) , after which the student had to attend formal sessions of dispute and argument before becoming a Bachelor of Arts and going on to the second part of the course , music , astronomy , geometry and arithmetic . |
| 21 | Let's go on to the second category , the er the body language bit . |
| 22 | This level should , Leathart advised , be pushed on with speed to the Great Cross-course , and then on to the second fault , seen in the northern end of Fleming 's , which had cut off the vein , and there to institute a search . |
| 23 | Move down on to the second page then . |
| 24 | Before going on to the second reason for Locke 's not acknowledging the existence of epistemic appearances I must correct a false impression I may have given , that all the seventeenth-century philosophers who succeeded Descartes toed the Cartesian line about the mind perceiving things by being causally affected by them . |
| 25 | In order to move on to the second phase , further satisfactory and lasting progress towards real and monetary convergence will have to be achieved , especially as regards price stability and the restoration of sound public finances . |
| 26 | Accepting this , some members of the British Government seem to have fallen back on to the second misconception . |
| 27 | He began explaining , straight on , then first right , on to the second set of lights … etcetera … etcetera … it 's rather a long walk , sir , he concluded . |
| 28 | Lear is evidently pleased with what Goneril has said , since he awards her a rich part of England , and moves on to the second movement , where again two daughters speak . |
| 29 | After the first player has had his turn , he hands on to the second player . |
| 30 | I tried boxing when I was fifteen and won a bout against an opponent who was smaller than me and who normally wore thick glasses ; I went on to the second round of the competition and was beaten flat in thirty seconds by a demon midget who hammered me onto the ropes and kept hitting me until the referee stopped the bout before I suffered permanent damage . |