Example sentences of "[noun] was passed on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time the tax that banks deducted from interest payments to depositors was passed on to the taxmen each quarter . |
| 2 | Although the wool producers seem to have borne part of the tax costs , the substantial increase in cloth production during the war is most easily explicable if a large part of the wool tax was passed on by the exporters to the foreign buyers , while the English cloth manufacturers were able to undercut their Continental rivals ( 88 , pp.39–40 ) . |
| 3 | Yet , not all this increase in bulk costs was passed on to the consumers in retail tariffs . |
| 4 | Documentation was passed on to the Director of Public Prosecutions but Prime minister John Major indicated in the House of Commons on May 19 that the government would take no further action , while the US Defence Department stated on May 19 that it considered the case closed . |
| 5 | ‘ However , in fairness to Price Waterhouse , it should also be stressed that on other occasions — for example , in April and October 1990 — when the firm had made its audit report to the directors of BCCI , it ensured that some information was passed on to the Bank of England . |
| 6 | That impression was passed on to the children , and then to David . |