Example sentences of "on [to-vb] the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Outside my living day stretched on to poach the night while I cried . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He went on to compare the thesis title with the title of the paper , to determine whether a relationship might exist . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He goes on to report the gentleman 's recollections of his servant , perhaps revealing inadvertently something about Leapor 's difficulties in the house : |
| 12 | His mere re-election can be relied on to revive the market and solve those problems — without costing the public purse one penny . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Before Form 19(JP) was introduced this was often — still is , sometimes — relied on to establish the position . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A good deal of this was sold off early on to provide the Crown with an immediate supply of cash . |
| 18 | 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 … |
| 19 | The aptly named Extraordinary Dancers who were booked to appear in the highly sophisticated Folies-Bergère and then went on to tour the world |
| 20 | My son Robert , since being fascinated by cereal packets as a child , went on to found the Museum of Advertising and Packaging in Gloucester . |
| 21 | After graduating in law from Essex University , Neeta Mashru went on to pass the Law Society Finals Course at the Guildford branch of the College of Law in 1989 . |
| 22 | The additional dwellings are not added on to eliminate the problem . |
| 23 | In Act One he first of all introduces himself and his job and what this entails and then he goes on to set the scene by describing the general vicinity and its history . |
| 24 | The Cabinet Secretary went on to elaborate the case for keeping ‘ under a single Minister the supervision of both economic and fiscal policy , and both internal and external economic questions ’ . |
| 25 | After lunch Macmillan and Broad flew on to visit the commander of 13 Corps , Gen Harding , at Monfalcone . |
| 26 | Moreover , the covenant went on to restrict the defendant 's ability to accept any professional appointment . |
| 27 | He had , in fact , long cherished a secret fantasy in which he had joined the privileged ranks of Oxford undergraduates , racketed through three glorious years of academic and sexual triumphs , then gone on to lead the kind of effortlessly successful life from which working-class origins and a foreshortened education had in reality excluded him . |
| 28 | John Rennie , on two , then survived a sharp chance to Hutton at gully and went on to lead the recovery with a hard-hitting 84 . |
| 29 | Continue on to reach the road , turn right over it to cross the Nedd Fechan and go to the road junction . |
| 30 | ‘ We really upset those Belgians — and Apoel are n't anywhere near as good as Antwerp who went on to reach the final . |