Example sentences of "be [verb] on to a " in BNC.

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1 This mucus capsule swells rapidly on contact with water , protecting the egg from abrasion and fungal infection , while the outermost layer enables the eggs to be fastened on to a plant .
2 A case involving a murder charge would be referred on to a Crown court .
3 But while County are tipped to go up this time , Francis could be stepping on to a bigger stage before next spring .
4 From the safety angle , the Bosch tacker will not fire if picked up by the trigger — the nose must be pressed on to a surface for firing .
5 The DT 2600 E has about as many features as can be squeezed on to a hot air gun .
6 Once this thesaurus has been devised it will be mapped on to a set of codes , which will allow the information to be communicated electronically throughout the NHS .
7 If a local entity analysis is carried out , the model can be mapped on to a database and applications applied to it before another local data analysis is started .
8 This means that the best possible data model can be formulated with the knowledge that it can be mapped on to a DBMS .
9 Porcelain painting is just one possibility , and if you create a suitable pressed flower design it can then be copied on to a piece of china , which makes a change from using fresh flowers as the reference material .
10 A Deco card design printout , ready to be copied on to a Deco card .
11 So that meaningful searches can be made on the microcomputer and so that all students will be familiar with its use , eventually all audiovisual items in the library will be entered on to a database .
12 In the old days in Shetland ( and still today in Faroe ) this meant the animals could be driven on to a beach and killed .
13 He was shrewd enough to realize that western-style government could not easily be grafted on to a chiefly structure profoundly resistant to rapid and uneven modernization .
14 Should the rational expectations hypothesis be grafted on to a ‘ correct ’ model which is basically the Keynesian theory of economic activity ?
15 It can not be grafted on to an alien stem .
16 The psychologists have plenty to say about this , about how the repressed emotion can then be projected on to a partner , or cause a kind of dual way of life to develop , where a woman may be sweet and lovely on the surface but grasping and rapacious beneath .
17 Back neck stitches can be run on to a few rows of waste yarn and removed leaving you with a set of shoulder stitches on each side .
18 Knitters can choose from a whole range of techniques and their selection will be put on to a video , exclusive to them .
19 These exercises , which are easily and quickly generated , can be presented to your students either as printed worksheets — you will be provided with the answers on a separate sheet — or can be put on to a floppy disk so that a student or group of students can work on screen .
20 game in which a ring on a string has to be thrown on to a hook .
21 Problems arising from faults in carpet manufacture or fitting may be passed on to a body like the British Carpet Technical Centre , which can sometimes offer a testing or arbitration service .
22 You may want to be sure a certain heirloom — perhaps worth little financially — will be passed on to a particular person .
23 Failing a settlement , a dispute would be passed on to a binational panel , on which non-NAFTA members could serve to enhance their impartiality .
24 In the context of futures trades on recognised or designated investment exchanges , money received by a member firm must often be passed on to an intermediate broker or to the exchange or clearing house concerned where it will be combined in an account with funds attributable to other clients .
25 The blinds can be fitted on to a wooden batten with touch-and-close fastener for easy removal , and are operated by pulling up cords which pass through rings on the back of the blind , then through screw-eyes on the underside of the batten .
26 The drawbacks are that it is significantly slower than the mainframe version , and the user is limited to the amount of data which can be fitted on to a PC ( a typical county takes up about 20 MB ) .
27 And the leisure department is to be ordered on to a tough economy drive , paring back all unnecessary expenditure .
28 More faces can easily be loaded on to a machine , like stocking a larder with exotic ingredients .
29 Terrible ! and you make a heaps of the field and then that 's the first handling , and then these heaps had to be loaded on to a trailer and then they were all dumped in a big heap at the bottom of the drive , and then we wait till there was a truck for each Stow station and load it all up again , and do you know there 's those forks with big Cumberland Cross on the end , and we 'd load those up , take them to Stow station , and unload it into the waggon .
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