Example sentences of "passed on [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Before that time , knowledge and wisdom were passed on through the spoken word , as they still are in much of the world .
2 It is a responsibility passed on through the generations . ’
3 It 's a skill passed on through the generations .
4 A spokesman for the Scottish Office said its £1 million was handed over to Shetland Islands Council and claims against it would be passed on through the IOPCF .
5 As land is passed on over the generations , it gradually ceases to be a viable unit .
6 He hoped that the code would be passed on via the Institution of Environmental Health Officers network and adopted by EHOs throughout the country .
7 Infection occurs with the transfer of data and is often passed on via an infected floppy disk .
8 Infection occurs with the transfer of data and is often passed on via an infected floppy disk .
9 It ca n't be passed on without the consent of the victim .
10 It does this through sensors which monitor speed and body movement , and this information is passed on to a computer .
11 Most serious cases of sex abuse are passed on to a unit which is designed for this purpose and has specially trained staff .
12 ‘ In this way ’ he declared in 1895 , ‘ they would do a thousand times more good than by denouncing Roman Catholics , Unitarians or anyone else. , There were united missionary services and neighbourhood ‘ visitations ’ after which the names of those visited were passed on to a minister of their denomination .
13 The slide-rules had been passed on to a Swedish group known as Bread and Fish , which was packing them together with clothes and medicines for southern Africa , when arsonists burned down the warehouse .
14 This would be detected by loops buried in the road at what are called key junctions and the data passed on to a computer which would issue the bills later .
15 Both the boys and the videos were passed on to a network of men which included school teachers and youth workers in Birmingham , Stoke on Trent , Holland and Belgium .
16 She sought to discover where he had obtained the information he was supposed to have passed on to a Sunday newspaper .
17 Problems arising from faults in carpet manufacture or fitting may be passed on to a body like the British Carpet Technical Centre , which can sometimes offer a testing or arbitration service .
18 In any case , even if it were possible , the shares may have been passed on to a bona fide purchaser for value .
19 The findings of these investigations , together with the Chief Constable 's proposed course of action , are passed on to a key monitoring and supervisory body , the Police Complaints Authority ( PCA ) , which may , if it has reason to be dissatisfied , overturn the Chief Constable 's decision .
20 You may want to be sure a certain heirloom — perhaps worth little financially — will be passed on to a particular person .
21 This is passed on to a set of inference rules cast in an appropriate non-monotonic logic which operate over the knowledge base to determine an appropriately helpful answer .
22 Failing a settlement , a dispute would be passed on to a binational panel , on which non-NAFTA members could serve to enhance their impartiality .
23 They claim that by the time a pushchair is passed on to a second or third child it 's brakes are often defective .
24 Although in adults it exhibits flu like symptoms , it can be disastrous if passed on to a baby .
25 At least some of the extra cost of stockholding is likely to be passed on to the caterer .
26 He received about 20 letters from ex-regimental POWs who were in need ; these were passed on to the regiment .
27 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 .
28 Years of close military co-operation , including joint work in missile development , have given Egypt valuable information about its former Iraqi ally , which has presumably been passed on to the Americans .
29 Nutrients from the sap are passed on to the ants in the mealybugs ' excrement .
30 At that time the tax that banks deducted from interest payments to depositors was passed on to the taxmen each quarter .
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