Example sentences of "on to [noun] the " in BNC.

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1 As irony would have it , however , an examiner that I did have passed on to Rowse the information that , in the paper on Political Institutions , in which I did badly , I had vigorously attacked Rowse 's pamphlet on ‘ The Question of the House of Lords ’ .
2 Rafaelo Falah , a Libyan-born Jew who lives in Rome , was downing his houmous alongside Israel 's tourist minister in the ceremony put on to welcome the Libyans to Israel .
3 A housewarming was impulsively decided on to mark the arrival of the new Alfoxden tenants , and on about 17 July Coleridge , seeking ‘ change of air ’ , arrived from Stowey in anticipation of the event .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Miners know the pressure is on to increase the British Coal 's competitiveness and save their jobs .
7 This potentially infringes the " undivided loyalty " rule , even if the information about B was unknown to the individual advising A. If the information was passed on to A the firm would , however , breach its duty of confidentiality to B. A final example is that of a broker/dealer carrying out an agency cross and matching the transactions of two clients .
8 But where the pre-existing obligation is a contractual duty owed to a third party , some other ground of public policy must be relied on to invalidate the consideration ( if otherwise legal ) …
9 Both Doherty and Stephen Beatty fired in decent crosses early on to test the Tbilisi keeper and then Johnston almost get on the end of a long punt upfield by Dornan .
10 Moreover , we may point out that even if corresponding attributive and predicative adjectives ( occurring with the same noun ) could be relied on to share the same referential locus , that would be no justification for leaping to an assertion that the two elements are actually " the same " tout court , and even less for claiming that the structural positions they occupy are alternative forms of each other .
11 The Department of Electrical Engineering , together with partners in Italy , Germany and Belgium , have developed training material for universities throughout Europe , passing on to others the benefits of Edinburgh 's first-rate research facilities in microelectronics .
12 They included gross and shifting uncertainties about money , great division of counsel in the General Assembly of the Company , fundamental differences of opinion between two at least of the engineers called on to survey the route , James Barnes and Thomas Telford , and , above all , the engineering of a very difficult route .
13 Until recently the products were confined to America and Europe but now the drive is on to spread the word in the Far East and Middle East .
14 No , but I mean there are other such reasons I mean there may be initially choosing clothes or something like that , but when I put them on in the morning I usually put them on to suit the weather and what 's clean and what I 've got tights to match .
15 From Muker by Ivelet and on to Gunnerside the dale is steep sided but pleasantly wooded while Gunnerside itself is on the site of an Old Norse settlement .
16 When we were all off-duty of an evening , Rosemary and I would get ourselves done up in our civvies ( strictly forbidden ) , and with our greatcoats and hats on to fool the eagle eye of the duty NCO in the Waaf Picquet Post , totter down the drive to await the arrival of the boys in the car .
17 I hold that on an appeal to the High Court under the Children Act 1989 the only findings of fact and the only reasons that may be relied on to support the decision of the justices under appeal , are those announced by the justices in accordance with rule 21 .
18 A member with a holding of a similar size will be quite unable to present a credible challenge to the board because in any contested vote the bulk of shareholders who bother to participate can be relied on to support the incumbent management team .
19 The curious facts of Ipswich v Fisons were being relied on to support the distinction .
20 … whether a valuation … is binding … must depend on the terms of the contract ( including any implied terms ) , on the nature of any circumstances relied on to vitiate the valuation , and the nature of the proceedings on which the issue arises .
21 What languages did they draw on to fracture the earlier consensus and what historical forces enabled them to orchestrate their campaign as a national protest ?
22 Jaq presumed that periodically these would be switched on to prune the jungle back .
23 Enthusiasm can spur one on to cram the border full of as many herbs as possible , but some of them are likely to die as a result , and others will be tall and weedy ; it is far better to plant with spaces between them to start with , allowing them room to grow to their full size so that their growth habit and leaf value can be made the most of in the context of the overall design .
24 Mr Charsley begins by pointing out that a Martian who found himself invited to a wedding would imagine that the whole affair had been laid on to honour the cake ( the question as to who would invite a Martian or to which side of the church the ushers would show him or why best men seem to turn into Martians when it comes to speeches , he quite wisely avoids ) .
25 By contrast , Jack Nicklaus made an eagle three and went on to birdie the next two holes , turning around a deficit of four shots to win the tournament .
26 The firm was not taken on to implement the proposals .
27 Mr Gandhi needs to win at least 200 seats nationally to be reasonably certain of being called on to form the next government .
28 Here are all my colleagues rushing upstairs with great enthusiasm , diving into the committee room , anxious to get on to curb the ever growing number of rules and regulations and whilst they 're upstairs merrily getting on with it , here we are downstairs passing more things which we say we do n't want to do .
29 In spite of the 190bhp power output capable of taking the little car from standstill to 60mph in under seven seconds and on to double the UK speed limit , it is that smoothness and flexibility that impress rather than the muscle .
30 Once the acidity is right , huge , mechanical , stainless steel forks are switched on to cut the curd into large chunks .
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