Example sentences of "be pass on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may share their syringes and if one of them has HIV , the needle will become infected and the virus could be passed on to the other person . |
| 2 | If one of these people has HIV , it may be passed on to the other person . |
| 3 | I mean y I think the charges that banks are making in order to make up some of their losses , they 're going to be passed on to the average investor , you know the average client , so erm you know the Halifax will do it free , I 've heard recently that they are actually charging for er holding your deeds . |
| 4 | With regard to Bury and Oldham , arrangements existed for referrals to be passed on to the respective social service departments . |
| 5 | It is a genetically-linked defect and will be passed on to the white offspring of the deaf mother . |
| 6 | Man is a god in ruins , thought Emerson , and perhaps at the end of the twentieth century much the same could be said of his world , a still beautiful but ravaged paradise which , regardless of the tenets of sustainable development will not be passed on to the next century in better or even the same condition , in fact , almost certainly in worse condition as a result of meeting the needs of another billion or so people . |
| 7 | But to the Lamarckians it seemed much more natural to assume that the wasting away of an individual 's eyes when there was no light would be passed on to the next generation , resulting in a rapid loss of eyesight in the whole population . |
| 8 | Hence , governments interested in reducing these disparities have introduced various taxes on large wealth holders , directed in particular at reducing the extent to which large accumulations of wealth can be passed on to the next generation . |