Example sentences of "[adv] pass the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the heavy diesel with its oil tank train slowly passed the box , he suddenly heard a noise outside . |
| 2 | After graduating in law from Essex University , Neeta Mashru went on to pass the Law Society Finals Course at the Guildford branch of the College of Law in 1989 . |
| 3 | Often the most one can learn from them is that the student stuck out the course and actually learned enough to pass the examination , retaining what he learned long enough to get it down on paper . |
| 4 | We must account for every idle word , never talk with anyone or undertake any trifling employment merely to pass the time of day . |
| 5 | Enoch Powell sat hunched and brooding , breaking his silence only to pass the time of day with John Biffen . |
| 6 | He not only passes the verdict , but also implements the sentence . |
| 7 | The reform of legal services , which may run into fiercer argument from the House of Lords than any measure for a decade , entirely passes the public by . |
| 8 | So pass the word to your guys . |
| 9 | The imbalance of supply and demand in popular fields results in Chairs setting guideline conditions to be met — for example , in order to get a favourable decision the student must not merely pass the field 's compulsory modules but should achieve grades of say , B , B , and B+ . |
| 10 | Any impression of calm and harmony is down to the fact that everyone close to the band has obviously passed the Krypton Factor -sponsored How To Tolerate Courtney test . |
| 11 | A charmer , she thought , although she had long passed the season for such things . |
| 12 | True , he was no oil painting , but she had long passed the age of needing good looks about her , and anyway , she admitted to herself with disarming frankness , her own beauty had long since gone . |
| 13 | If a computer salesman claims that the computer he is selling will run a particular software package and this claim turns out to be untrue , it will be for the company selling the computer to show that any exemption clause it hopes to rely on passes the test of reasonableness . |
| 14 | to and on successfully passing the Medau Teachers ' Examination . |
| 15 | Though Mel Brooks 's Spaceballs is principally a take-off of Star Wars , its opening march-past shot of an apparently endless spaceship , ever so slowly passing the camera , all lumps , bumps and ‘ functional ’ excrescences , could just as easily be harking back to 2001 . |
| 16 | He rarely passes the ball away , and in his role you need that . |
| 17 | We just passed the revenue , the capital , the revenue then goes on the base budget , is called the revenue consequence of capital expenditure and all the fire officers ask for is enough to build a fire station and the cost of running it is automatically going onto your bill . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , those waiting for the chance to go soon passed the age of seventeen , the upper limit for Youth Allyah emigration visas . |
| 19 | By the time that the OEEC Council agreed in October 1957 to set up the so-called Maudling Committee , named after Reginald Maudling who was appointed by the British premier , Harold Macmillan , in July 1957 to conduct the negotiations on Britain 's proposals for a wider free trade area , the Six had in a sense already passed the point of no return . |
| 20 | I must have done , as not only did the Old Bill and the Ritas ( as in Meter Maid ) ignore me , but a real cabbie parked nearby came over to pass the time of day . |
| 21 | Thus , a lease of a shop " with appurtenances thereto " was held not to pass the forecourt immediately in front of the shop ( Owens v Thomas Scott & Sons ( Bakers ) Ltd [ 1939 ] 3 All ER 663 ) . |
| 22 | Instead Ford has decided not to pass the Government 's tax cut on to the motorist but to pour it into its own pockets and profits . |
| 23 | Something in her voice made him ease back on the throttle , decide not to pass the Renault Turbo lorry he 'd been stalking . |
| 24 | Just to pass the time . ’ |
| 25 | In practice , if there is any doubt whether it is appropriate to charge theft or obtaining property by deception , it will be natural to charge the latter ; and in our opinion it would be wise to do so , because this will be a much easier offence to establish than is the present offence of obtaining by false pretences , as it will be unnecessary to show that the owner was deceived into intentionally passing the ownership but sufficient to show that he was tricked into parting with the possession . |
| 26 | ‘ I was just passing the door , orficer . |
| 27 | Our trusty shore controls informed us , somewhat naively in view of the fact that the black night outside was dotted with the myriad lights of fishing vessels , that they thought she was just passing the Manacles . |
| 28 | I looked in the direction he was pointing — Roman villa , vestal virgins ' tent , WI stalls with Aunt Bedelia and Mrs Cartwright frantically buttering and jamming home-made scones , street theatre , Punch and Judy , and there 's old Jeremiah just passing the jazz band with his fingers in his ears . |
| 29 | If you ask me , he 's one of those chaps whose marriage was so close and idyllic that he 'll never get over his wife 's death : he 's just passing the time as usefully as he can . |
| 30 | Mass , the most accomplished veteran of Sportscar racing , was just passing the pits entrance when the slight drizzle turned into a downpour : he had a torrid time out there on Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez , spending almost 3 minutes slithering around to the pits . |