Example sentences of "[noun] [be] pass down the " in BNC.

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1 As messages are passed down the autonomic nervous system , the blood vessels in erectile tissue everywhere — penis , walls of the vagina , ear lobes , nose ( notice the stuffiness ? ) — are engorging .
2 Now scientists working at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford believe they 've made a significant discovery in how asthma is passed down the family tree .
3 It is generally done in a vertical packed bed reactor , in which water is passed down the column , with air passing up the column .
4 One day when the King was passing down the Thames in his barge , Cranmer , hearing the royal music , came out on Lambeth Bridge to greet him .
5 Word was passed down the long column to close up , and to be ready to make a dash for the ford .
6 When a fibreoptic bronchoscope is passed down the tube of the laryngeal mask a dynamic view of the vocal cords is possible in most patients .
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