Example sentences of "[was/were] passed on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He received about 20 letters from ex-regimental POWs who were in need ; these were passed on to the regiment . |
| 2 | This prompted a question on the place in Britain of a lower level of Capital Transfer Tax if the farm were passed on to the son at a much earlier age ? |
| 3 | He quoted fully from Miller 's letters on pollination of tulips by bees and on cross-fertilisation of white and red cabbage , and these observations were passed on to the Royal Society ( Phil . |
| 4 | When the messages were decoded they emerged as apparently meaningless blocks of letters , and these were passed on to the linguists in Hut 3 who turned them into intelligible German . |
| 5 | Following the report of its working group , recommendations concerning this were passed on to the newly appointed UKCC on its inception in July 1983 . |
| 6 | Cuts last year in the Dutch health budget were passed on to the national applied research organization ( TNO ) , whose own grant is being halved by 1994 . |
| 7 | Significant quotes from players were passed on to the writers who heard , for example , that the Europeans had a " quiet " lunch after the opening foursomes , that Tony Jacklin did n't sleep too well one night , that Strange and Kite do n't hit it as far as some , that the Americans were " stunned " after the first day and that , mostly , players thought the crowds behaved reasonably well . |
| 8 | Tools , especially bellows , were passed on to the eldest boy , younger sons had the opportunity to rent workshops of their own . |
| 9 | We asked the prime ministers office for a comment — and were passed on to the treasury , which told us that the conditions for economic recovery are very much in place , but people in Cheltenham we spoke to were having none of it . |
| 10 | We asked the prime ministers office for a comment — and were passed on to the treasury , which told us that the conditions for economic recovery are very much in place , but people in Cheltenham we spoke to were having none of it . |
| 11 | Before that time , knowledge and wisdom were passed on through the spoken word , as they still are in much of the world . |
| 12 | At that time the tax that banks deducted from interest payments to depositors was passed on to the taxmen each quarter . |
| 13 | This was passed on to the Bank but no action was taken — partly , says Bingham , because PW 's report did not convey its concerns ‘ in a blunt and unmistakable way ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | Yet , not all this increase in bulk costs was passed on to the consumers in retail tariffs . |
| 16 | That impression was passed on to the children , and then to David . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |