Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] on to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years of close military co-operation , including joint work in missile development , have given Egypt valuable information about its former Iraqi ally , which has presumably been passed on to the Americans . |
| 2 | The virus has since been passed on to their children , their sexual partners and their partners ' partners . |
| 3 | But the process has also been a more subtle one , as new initiatives have apparently been tacked on to existing local government . |
| 4 | Then her eyes slowly began to focus and she realised that they had n't just been tossed on to the bed . |
| 5 | Dr Susan Blackmore , of the Brain and Perception Laboratory of the University of Bristol , suggests that a group of babies be trained to use a ‘ baby-operated tape player ’ invented by Tom Troscianko and herself , which will shortly be released on to the market . |
| 6 | It has come as a shock to realise that your magazine can no longer be relied on to present the relevant information in a straightforward factual manner . |
| 7 | The destruction of the monopolistic purchasing cartels , which was the commons ' real object , ensured that the tax would no longer be passed on to the producer in the form of lower prices , and the establishment of the Company of the Staple as a selling cartel enabled the real burden of the tax to be imposed upon the purchasers , the cloth manufacturers of Flanders . |
| 8 | However it ca n't just be bolted on to the tractor , and Mr Tomlinson had to spend further hours in the workshop matching it to the tractor 's backend and getting the gearing right . |
| 9 | The Doctor , the guy with the blue box , could normally be relied on to deal with problems of this magnitude , but on this occasion he had apparently failed to understand that Pool was made of human brains and was in any case crazy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | More faces can easily be loaded on to a machine , like stocking a larder with exotic ingredients . |
| 12 | It was known , also , that the old lady had been friendly with his mother ; and anyway , being a bachelor and retired , he could usually be counted on to take sufferers to hospital in emergency , or bring them home ; as well as visiting murderers in prison , and other tasks ( often called do-gooding by people who have never been remotely in need of that particular little world ) . |
| 13 | Nancy could always be relied on to be there in an emergency . |
| 14 | Jiang Qing could always be counted on to use her influence and pronounce in favour of the most extreme and disruptive policies . |
| 15 | In his place , the MP for Hamilton , George Robertson , who yesterday was voted on to the shadow cabinet for the first time . |
| 16 | Here the coal that was brought up from underground was tipped on to a slow-moving endless belt : the boys , standing alongside , took off the slag or rubbish that was mixed with the coal . |
| 17 | He is likely to fill the No 6 slot vacated by Ian Botham 's Test call , and could also be called on to bowl his leg spin . |
| 18 | Sections that have been saved to disk from other designs can also be imported on to the current grid , so a completely new pattern could be created simply by combining various sections from other designs . |
| 19 | If desired , a message could also be piped on to the middle band of the balloon . |
| 20 | They could also be taken on to rough pasture , to distant resources , or even kept in woodland ( their natural habitat ) , though milkers would not be taken too far from the settlement . |
| 21 | The metallic compounds may contaminate edible fish and drinking water supplies , and thereby be passed on to people . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The petition has now been passed on to Durham County Council . ’ |
| 24 | class has now been put on to Thursday morning |
| 25 | Certainly , while some type of guarantee scheme or bonding would seem to be desirable , the cost will inevitably be passed on to the consumer in the form of higher charges . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Within T IS , too , the work which was done to bring Caterdata and the Psion together can now be sold on to other Caterdata customers , and a section explaining how Psion works has been added to the Caterdata manual . |
| 28 | However , there are signs of change at some levels , because men are now being accepted on to the CARE course , which provides specialist training in how to deal with victims of sex crimes , although this might simply reflect a recognition that an increasing number of victims are young boys . |
| 29 | But there has been an additional image barrier : the CAB as a generalist advice agency was often labelled a ‘ signposting ’ service whereby clients will simply be referred on to other organisations . |
| 30 | Work on women can not simply be added on to existing , flawed bodies of thought but requires a revolution in the ways in which we think about men as well as women , about work as well as the family , about political and public as well as private issues . |