Example sentences of "passed on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems certain that hidden teachings on sacred geometry — form , shape , proportion , number , measure and materials — were passed on into Christian times and were incorporated into much church architecture , including the great cathedrals . |
| 2 | A male 's vigour in display may also indicate to the female a mate with whose genes hers can mix with a high chance of being passed on through future generations . |
| 3 | The extra costs of £9.60 a year per household are thought likely to be passed on through local taxation . |
| 4 | In the West , reincarnation is ‘ packaged ’ in more attractive terms , with the talents and gifts of each life being passed on to succeeding lives . |
| 5 | But while Stalin lived , Lysenko derived great power by espousing the politically seductive claim that characteristics acquired by one generation — in seeds and men — could be passed on to succeeding generations . |
| 6 | This arrangement is particularly suited to a society where wealth is concentrated in the ownership of land , because it ensures that an undivided estate can be passed on to succeeding generations in the family . |
| 7 | If the effect of use and disuse is to alter the nature of the proteins in the body , and if the replicable information passed on to future generations is carried by DNA , then Weismann has to be right if the central dogma is right . |
| 8 | Only the Maronites felt able to drink from the cup of French tutelage and even they quickly found that the chalice contained a special , colonial poison , the effects of which would be passed on to future generations ; for by adding such large areas of Muslim Syria to the new ‘ Lebanon ’ , the French ensured that the Christians ' precarious status as the largest religious community would — once the Muslim birthrate increased — be lost . |
| 9 | Genetic engineering involves the manipulation of DNA , the basic chromosomal unit that exists in all cells and which contains genetic information that is passed on to future generations . |
| 10 | If this happens in a germ cell , it has the chance of being passed on to future generations . |
| 11 | They influence development , and they get passed on to future generations . |
| 12 | In Britain , gene transplants like Carly 's have been limited by the ethics committee to operations which produce changes that will not be passed on to future generations — effectively allowing only treatments little different in ethical terms from ordinary organ transplants . |
| 13 | If so , any school or group of schools in consultation with the College and the leader of the in-service team may decide to depart from a particular syllabus or portions of it and develop in its place new material which after being tried out and improved upon may be passed on to other schools and colleges for use on a wider scale with the approval of the Ministry . |
| 14 | Unisys will add its own management applications to the framework , including critical resource management and software distribution modules , which will be passed on to other Tivoli users , such as Pyramid and Tendem , through Unix System Labs ( UX No 409 ) . |
| 15 | Over four years , Ukraine would receive 75,000 million cubic metres of gas and 50,000,000-70,000,000 tons of oil , some of which would be passed on to other European countries . |
| 16 | They are passed on to other specialist Hospitals , and in this case the Southampton General where they believed surgeons would n't accept smokers … |
| 17 | As a result , there are large bills to be paid — bills which are being passed on to ordinary community charge payers . |
| 18 | Funds allocated from central to local government are passed on to individual schools . |
| 19 | I wonder how much of that information is passed on to individual police officers . |
| 20 | In addition , there are other ways in which property can be passed on to specific people without a will . |
| 21 | The range and richness of sport as a component of popular culture has been overlooked by those who take a ‘ diffusionist ’ view , concentrating on how middle-class games and values were passed on to industrial workers via muscular Christians and social reformers . |
| 22 | They are compressional waves , the energy being transmitted by an initial compression of particles which is then passed on to adjacent particles . |
| 23 | The case was passed on to German Self Aid , who Rave £50 . |
| 24 | Plainly such action is only relevant to the objective if the rise in rates is passed on to would-be borrowers in the commercial and personal sectors . |
| 25 | Where the savings rate is high , a large proportion of windfall gains is passed on to subsequent generations whose expected gains are lower . |
| 26 | There appeared to have been cross-party complicity in dividing up funds from " commissions " taken by party officials ( and in some cases passed on to national party headquarters ) , amounting to 5-10 per cent of the total cost of projects . |
| 27 | THE EC would almost certainly respond to any US tariff rise with duty increases of its own , the cost of which could be passed on to British consumers . |
| 28 | is , is , in London and we deal with the British Section which is are the particular bits , but the prisoners have to be vatted and looked at and found by the International Secretaires , then they 're passed on to British Section who pass them on to us and a great deal of research goes into making sure that they really are truly prisoners of conscience , that they 've been in prison for some er possibly because of their belief or religion or their race erm and they 've not taken or advocated violence not taken part in or advocated violence and then , then they are full prisoners of conscience erm we maybe allocated them . |
| 29 | For all these reasons , the unexpected visit of the clergyman was passed on with ponderous confidentiality . |
| 30 | Different lessons were passed on by other grandparents . |