Example sentences of "on [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The document begins : ‘ Be it now proclaimed by the Board of Commissioners of the County of Beaver under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ’ and goes on to support the work done to try and preserve the line as a ‘ national monument of historical importance ’ . |
| 2 | Baker then went on to emphasise the need for a wide-bandwidth system to cope with services such as home shopping , banking , burglar alarms , fire alarms , and message transmission . |
| 3 | He went on to emphasise the importance of the national veto and said : ’ When I urged that there should be democratic control , I had in mind that Ministers are the representatives of their Governments and they are the ones who take the decisions . |
| 4 | Now that the problem has been identified , the race is on to preserve the buildings . |
| 5 | Four secondees were still struggling to settle-in some six months after their appointment , but most secondees adjusted within three months and went on to enjoy the scope to shape their jobs , to use their expertise and to become part of a team . |
| 6 | Dr J Majo Cruzate , Advisor , Director General , DG XIII at the Commission of European Communities , after outlined the history of the European Single Market initiative up to Maastricht and ( probably ) beyond , and went on to extol the virtues of creating a single market for IT in Europe , with the European Commission 's roll seen as harmonising standards efforts and funding research . |
| 7 | David and Geoffrey were perfectly welcome because they were English , but I was not welcome because I was American , so while they were staying on to see the May Day Parade , I was meant to leave and fly to Berlin where I would wait for David and Geoffrey who were going on by train through Poland . |
| 8 | Pater 's measured prose goes on to connect the picture with drawings by Verrocchio , speculate on the artist and the sitter , and wonder about how long the picture was in progress . |
| 9 | However , just as the former advertising salesman had proved in a back-alley off St James ' , that location , location and location was not always sacrosanct if you had an exciting and original concept like The Chicago Pizza Pie Factory , so he went on to confirm the theory at The Rib Shack , tucked away in a side street opposite Harrods . |
| 10 | ‘ But I think it is time to move on to target the groups most at risk , ’ she said . |
| 11 | Outside my living day stretched on to poach the night while I cried . |
| 12 | Indeed , Braveman and Jarvis ( 1978 ) , having argued that their results imply separate mechanisms for the two phenomena , go on to acknowledge the possibility that their results might simply reflect the use of a test procedure that was less sensitive as a measure of conditioning than as a measure of neophobia . |
| 13 | He went on to compare the thesis title with the title of the paper , to determine whether a relationship might exist . |
| 14 | These same authors went on to compare the effects of homoeopathic potencies on the wheat seedlings with those on cultures of yeast , and obtained very similar results . |
| 15 | This group of researchers went on to compare the effect of extended sleep with reduced sleep ( 5 hours ) , and with displaced sleep , when subjects slept from either 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. or 3 a.m. to 11 a.m . |
| 16 | He goes on to report the gentleman 's recollections of his servant , perhaps revealing inadvertently something about Leapor 's difficulties in the house : |
| 17 | His mere re-election can be relied on to revive the market and solve those problems — without costing the public purse one penny . |
| 18 | But in other parts of the Midlands , and indeed the country , the search is on to find the houses with high erm we have quite large programmes going on in the south west and also in the Pennines , Scotland . |
| 19 | THE search is now on to find the Boots Northern Ireland ‘ Children of the Year 1993 ’ . |
| 20 | Marriage certificates , unfortunately , often enter ‘ Of full age ’ in the column marked ‘ Age ’ , but where precise information is given it is an easy step to go on to discover the birth certificates of the married couple . |
| 21 | Once he knew you 'd found out about the paintings , he might have thought you 'd go on to discover the truth about the murder . |
| 22 | Before Form 19(JP) was introduced this was often — still is , sometimes — relied on to establish the position . |
| 23 | But these earlier records collected here have a freshness of tone , a joyful freedom on the high notes of the lyric soprano 's range , and the adaptability to move from the low tessitura and dramatic style of Sieglinde 's narrative to the tender lyricism of Massenet 's Manon or Puccini 's Angelica , then back again to ‘ Ozean , du Ungeheuer ’ and on to provide the delicacy of touch appropriate to Mozart 's Susanna and Cherubino . |
| 24 | A good deal of this was sold off early on to provide the Crown with an immediate supply of cash . |
| 25 | Gowing goes on to indicate the health hazard arising from the intense alpha activity of polonium at the Windscale site : ‘ Alpha handling procedures had to be greatly upgraded to deal with polonium , and for a time everyone had to work with respirators … |
| 26 | The IRA has admitted planting eight firebombs in Milton Keynes last week.The admission came in a statement which went on to accuse the police of endangering public safety by ignoring bomb warnings . |
| 27 | But the statement went on to accuse the police here of ’ deliberately ignoring IRA bomb warnings , or failing to clear areas targeted in warnings . |
| 28 | The aptly named Extraordinary Dancers who were booked to appear in the highly sophisticated Folies-Bergère and then went on to tour the world |
| 29 | Their insistence on selling only complete packages made the cost of buying the guides too expensive , but at the same time individual purchasing libraries have often gone on to modify the guides for local use ; and this is the greatest block to co-ordinated and centralized production — librarians prefer to prepare their own guides , tailor-made for their particular local needs . |
| 30 | My son Robert , since being fascinated by cereal packets as a child , went on to found the Museum of Advertising and Packaging in Gloucester . |