Example sentences of "passed on to the [adj] [noun] " 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 | This measure was intended to eliminate corruption and prevent unrecoverable loans being passed on to the Central Bank . |
| 4 | Tools , especially bellows , were passed on to the eldest boy , younger sons had the opportunity to rent workshops of their own . |
| 5 | It is her responsibility to make sure any relevant information is passed on to the regional managers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He quoted fully from Miller 's letters on pollination of tulips by bees and on cross-fertilisation of white and red cabbage , and these observations were passed on to the Royal Society ( Phil . |
| 8 | It is a genetically-linked defect and will be passed on to the white offspring of the deaf mother . |
| 9 | These requests ( except perhaps the ones for favourable examination results ) are passed on to the local prefecture , and the deputé has to show that he can deliver the goods . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The particles themselves remain separate and discrete when it comes to being passed on to the next generation . |
| 14 | Then those same genes either get passed on to the next generation or they do n't . |
| 15 | This hatred builds up and is then passed on to the next generation . |
| 16 | Only a proportion of these are passed on to the next stage of conscious analysis . |
| 17 | While physicians advised sparing use of the ointment , the quacks prescribed it liberally to great effect and had usually passed on to the next town before the inevitable relapses and the not infrequent deaths — results of over-treatment — had occurred . |
| 18 | Sean was so astonished that he almost swallowed the paten as well as the host and Paddy , his face bright red as his hair , hurriedly passed on to the next communicant . |