Example sentences of "[is] passed on [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The insights gained from computational models of visual perceptions are facilitating the interpretation of findings of physiological studies of the visual cortex and a picture is emerging of a modular system in which different attributes of the image are processed in different cortical areas before the information is passed on to higher order systems .
2 I wonder how much of that information is passed on to individual police officers .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Where the savings rate is high , a large proportion of windfall gains is passed on to subsequent generations whose expected gains are lower .
6 All the complex information which is passed on from one generation to the next is coded using specific arrangements of just four molecules !
7 The distinctive property of cultural behaviour , as ethologists use the term , is the way it is passed on from one generation to the next .
8 In essence , culture is a distinctive way of life of a people , not biologically transmitted but learned behaviour that is passed on from one generation to the next , evolving and changing over time .
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