Example sentences of "be [vb pp] on to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Then the neighbours and family who are relied on to share some daily task become more evidently part of the social system , or family system of that elderly person . |
| 3 | Two passages are relied on to support that view from judgments of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in recent cases . |
| 4 | The initial writ requires to identify the licensing board 's failures and specify the circumstances which are relied on to show that the hoard erred ; it is not sufficient to recite without specification all the statutory grounds of appeal ( Sutherland v. City of Edinburgh District Licensing Board , 1984 S.L.T. 241 ) . |
| 5 | I told him the letter had been posted on to you and it was merely a matter of time before you got it . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She was wearing a tight sort of dress in shiny , slippery silk , which looked as if it had been painted on to her body . |
| 10 | Two square escutcheon plates , each incised with a cross , have been riveted on to the surface above and below the keyhole . |
| 11 | Radios 2 and 3 have irrevocably lost listeners now that they have been squeezed on to FM only ; so will Radio 1 , which is to meet the same fate . |
| 12 | But the press had already been tipped off : Mrs Simpson 's car had been booked on to the Channel steamer in her own name . |
| 13 | That is not the case when they are added on to the normal uprating statement , as has happened today . |
| 14 | The screens are slotted on to an amazing new printer which cost the company an arm and a leg a couple of years ago . |
| 15 | ‘ It should be stressed that no debts arising from non–payment of the community Charge have been added on to the Council Tax bills . ’ |
| 16 | Members of the TAC are represented on both committees , and other TAC members are coopted on to many of their working parties . |
| 17 | Bags of coloured wools are pegged on to scaffolding near the machine and sample lengths of fabric and felted scarves are swagged about the place . |
| 18 | After serving a further 20 per cent of their sentence in a semi-open regime , inmates are moved on to an open system ; |
| 19 | The pouches are sewn on to 2in wide webbing , which is fully adjustable to fit from 30in to 46in girth . |
| 20 | Since then , new benefits have been bolted on to Beveridge 's structure and some of these have compounded the ageism of the system . |
| 21 | Although probably built as a row by some Victorian property magnate , all the houses were slightly different from the front and all had been built on to or extended differently at the back . |
| 22 | In recent years the entire MI5 registry has been transferred on to a computer at a Ministry of Defence office in Mount Row , Mayfair . |
| 23 | Lateral and medial stabilisers are incorporated on to the outsole to prevent rollover while the design features a flex notch , which has been cut into the outsole to counter any restriction of movement . |
| 24 | Strobe lights are turned on to full effect for ‘ Bring It On Down ’ , which comes complete with a sample of Donna Summer 's old disco smash ‘ I Feel Love ’ , incongruous amidst the white English chaos — albeit a very controlled and theatrical type of chaos . |
| 25 | Strobe lights are turned on to full effect for ‘ Bring It On Down ’ , which comes complete with a sample of Donna Summer 's old disco smash ‘ I Feel Love ’ , incongruous amidst the white English chaos — albeit a very controlled and theatrical type of chaos . |
| 26 | Names of infant Mulverins had recently been scratched on to the wall . |
| 27 | She had either fallen or been pushed on to a spike on the plough ; the level of her blood alcohol gave some credence to the idea that she had fallen . |
| 28 | Candidates from both the UK and overseas are accepted on to the full-time programme . |
| 29 | Candidates from both the UK and overseas are accepted on to this full-time programme . |
| 30 | MORE than 500 Chinese who wanted to be smuggled into the United States have been moved on to an American base in the Marshall Islands after a six-week voyage from Hong Kong , the US Coast Guard said yesterday . |