Example sentences of "on to [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This again throws the emphasis on to skills rather than coverage of facts , although a comprehension of the structures of subject disciplines ( even the idea that subjects have structures ) is an important element . |
| 2 | They are thus forced to extend the area of cultivation on to land hitherto used by pastoralists for seasonal grazing . |
| 3 | Could it be relied on to work well in the United Kingdom ? |
| 4 | Go on to bed now . ’ |
| 5 | The Arts : Recycled jewels Alan Blyth welcomes on to CD more great performances from the age of black disc |
| 6 | But some irresistible compulsion drove him on to hazard again the life he relished so much , and to put at risk my happiness as well . |
| 7 | Since no more than 1,000 Russian citizens lived in Russian America at any one time in the history of the Russian-American Company , holding on to Alaska indefinitely was going to prove difficult . |
| 8 | However , rather than getting upset about this it spurs her on to try harder to show that they are worth watching . |
| 9 | ‘ And if you put a bullet into him before he can pass the information on to Bailey then Mobuto 's as good as dead . |
| 10 | Anyway Mr Kobold suggested that I press on to Manchester tonight . ’ |
| 11 | Yeah I know he does hold on to things really tight |
| 12 | She put her glasses on to peer once more at the vanished smear of mascara , and was amused to see the print of her face leap into sharp relief : a new trick , for her glasses are quite new . |
| 13 | We 'll now go on to correspondence then Pat please . |
| 14 | The form of intonation has now been described in some detail , and we will move on to look more closely at its functions . |
| 15 | Oldham 's joy was complete when , 10 minutes later , the effervescent Ritchie fed Irwin and then ran on to head home the full-back 's cross for his second goal and Oldham 's third . |
| 16 | Manchester Computing Centre is used to coping with multi-volume files , but a further problem arose when the file was too large to fit onto one of our backup cartridges ; as no one had ever needed to copy a file that large on to cartridge before , we had to devise a way of splitting it between two cartridges . |
| 17 | But that 's on to scale there . |
| 18 | Chamberlain 's cabinet was obsessed by the fear that if taxpayers ' money was used to shore up the refugee organisations , other countries , not least Germany , would be encouraged to hand on to Britain yet more of their unwanted citizens . |
| 19 | PC Software houses are turning on to Windows more quickly than the users — there are n't many who do n't have a Windows product in their portfolios these days — and Sage has joined the band of the enlightened few who package both DOS and Windows versions together with its second foray into the GUI market — Sterling + 2 . |
| 20 | He talked about those who had been fired by the spirit but had lost touch with the soul ; about unassimilated shadows which foisted evil on to enemies rather than bringing responsibility back home ; he talked of tight-ropes and sword-bridges and the narrow course between the clashing rocks . |
| 21 | They refer on to specialists only a tiny proportion of people with mental disorder , usually those with severely upsetting or difficult problems such as new psychotic illnesses , very severe depression or disabling anxiety disorders . |
| 22 | If anyone rings and asks for her , we 're to say she 's out , then pass the message on to Bob so that she can ring back . ’ |
| 23 | On to golf now and Colin Montgomerie has reached the last four of the Toyota World Matchplay at Wentworth . |
| 24 | Perfect pads : save the shoulder pads from your old blouses and dresses and glue them on to coathangers so that newer , delicate clothes do n't tear . |
| 25 | It 's a cold , wet night all the way down the West coast , but as we round the Lizard , about 7:00 in , it comes on to blow hard and there 's quite a storm up the Channel until the serene sounds of Dungeness ( at 9:40 ) leading to the mysterious aleatoricism of South Foreland . |
| 26 | By February 1916 pressure was mounting again , and resolutions calling for compulsory national service were flowing in ; the Executive refused to debate them , but passed them on to Law nevertheless . |
| 27 | Where the material to be used in enquiry work is audio-visual ( as for instance a filmstrip , perhaps with the accompanying booklet transcribed on to audio-cassette so that the eye can concentrate on the pictures and the slower readers have quick access to the text ) then of course suitable equipment must be available in sufficient quantity for the expected numbers of students at any one time . |
| 28 | Once we had worked together to help him regain his faith , he was able to go on to play just as well as he had done before ; indeed , now that he had remembered the feeling of success , he was able to play even better . |
| 29 | He could certainly arrange to come on to Rome afterwards though he did not think he had quite enough courage to join the parish party . |
| 30 | ‘ I hear the English faculty has been on to Humphrey already , ’ he volunteered . |