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

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1 The super smooth 2.5-litre intercooled turbo-diesel , quite the best of the bunch , is pepped up 4bhp to 98bhp ; the 3-litre V-6 petrol has been breathed on to the tune of an extra 8bhp , at 147bhp .
2 A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage .
3 ’ The other ship , ’ Posi said , confirming my thought as it formed , ’ has been locked on to our energy-field infrapattern , by means of the advanced Intelloid that controls it . ’
4 In recent years the entire MI5 registry has been transferred on to a computer at a Ministry of Defence office in Mount Row , Mayfair .
5 The financial effort the nation has been called on to make is a very large one , especially since the cost of construction per kW of nuclear capacity is about 25 per cent higher than the cost per kW of coal-fired capacity .
6 He is also proud that in 37 years he has never lost a single victim whose life he has been called on to save .
7 The cash has been sent on to HQ where it is sorely needed ( see our Spring issue ) .
8 The psychoanalysts might suggest that your own temporary alteration of intellectual function has been projected on to me . ’
9 The barbecue is hot and ready , and the water has been turned on to heat for their showers .
10 All the responsibility has been thrown on to the regulatory body OFTEL , when it might have been possible to help the market work better .
11 Elland Road 's under-soil heating has been switched on to beat the frost and give Batty his first game since suffering a hairline ankle fracture in October .
12 At least one set of potential buyers , from Holland , has been helicoptered on to Eigg to be shown around the island .
13 EASTENDERS star Letitia Dean lies bleeding , trapped inside a car which has been shunted on to a railway line .
14 By contrast , in the Devon village of Broadclyst , it is the middle-class estate of four-bedroomed detached dwellings that has been grafted on to an older core of smaller , less attractive houses .
15 All work has been concentrated on to what used to be the body plant .
16 Thank you for your fax of 19 May which has been passed on to me for action .
17 The Institute also received its first complaint about the way it has fulfilled its role as an RSB : this has been passed on to the Institute 's ombudsman Anthony Surtees for review .
18 Your letter dated the 19th May to Wales Wildlife and Countryside Link has been passed on to me in my capacity as Vice Chair of the Link , but more relevantly perhaps as Director of CPRW .
19 Thorough research conducted by Newcastle polytechnic has been passed on to me by the Rev. Paul Nicholson , who has done sterling work to highlight the problems of those on income support .
20 The matter has been passed on to detectives at Lisburn Road .
21 Both were villages with large numbers of Hinkley workers and which , a few years before , could have been relied on to toe the company line .
22 Clients have been known to send the factor invoices before the goods have been shipped , to create fictional ‘ fresh air ’ invoices , or to pocket payments that should have been passed on to the factor .
23 In any case , even if it were possible , the shares may have been passed on to a bona fide purchaser for value .
24 Those men , balding men with families , would have written their reports with a knowing smile , omitting anything too indelicate , and the contents would have been passed on to Urquhart 's boss , and then probably on to Spittals .
25 We hypothesized that heads would have tended to draw them to the attention of their more senior colleagues in the first instance and that the booklets might not subsequently have been passed on to the ‘ rank and file ’ .
26 A spokesman for Glenlight said without the subsidy a sixty-six per cent increase in freight charges would have been passed on to clients from tomorrow .
27 Having been placed on to three lengths of webbing , six men would be required to lift the shell and put it into the case ; the webs were then cut , as it would not have been possible to withdraw them .
28 The sleek , expressionless woman wore a silvery skintight jumpsuit which almost appeared to have been sprayed on to her limbs , not donned .
29 The delicacy of the children seems to have been passed on to them by their mother , and in any case a succession of pregnancies had very probably weakened her own constitution severely .
30 BSE , a disease which attacked the brain and nervous system , was believed to have been passed on to cattle through cattle feed containing the remains of sheep infected with scrapie , a similar disease endemic in the UK for over 200 years which apparently posed little risk to human health .
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