Example sentences of "be passed [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , for example , the idea is simply to produce text files that can then be passed on disk to a typesetting bureau you 'll probably need no more equipment than a basic word processing system . |
| 2 | They 're living proof that asthma can be passed from generation to generation . |
| 3 | Like other trades and ‘ mysteries ’ , chemical or pharmaceutical knowledge was to be passed from father to son , or master to apprentice , or wise woman to her daughter , and not broadcast to the world . |
| 4 | Women were still seen as a valuable commodity , to be passed from father to husband , and at the accession of James I , any property a woman might hold would immediately become her husbands on marriage . |
| 5 | Some of the features of a status society , such as peerages , can be passed from father to son : the inheritance is founded in law . |
| 6 | A letter had arrived from Asba Tafari addressed to the head of my escort ; it had been passed from chief to chief . |
| 7 | It had been passed from hand to hand along a chain of trusted men until it came into his own , its message comprehensible only to his eyes . |
| 8 | Once she 'd got known for being presentable , turning up sober and on time , not leaving early with the spoons and able to tell left hand from right , word got round and she 'd been passed from college to college by grateful manciples . |
| 9 | According to whale scientist Dr Roger Payne , the toxins are passed from generation to generation through the mother 's milk , with the toxin concentration increasing with each successive generation , eventually threatening the species with extinction . |
| 10 | ‘ As a biologist , my main interest has for some years been human genetics , the study of the way in which various characteristics are passed from parent to offspring . |
| 11 | The overall law of this country is laid down and maintained by Parliament by means of Acts which are passed from time to time . |
| 12 | Diseased organs are passed from doctor to doctor on plastic lunch trays . |
| 13 | A little scared , very curious , ravenously hungry and ready to argue the toss with anyone after being passed from person to person like so many yards of parcelled muslin . |
| 14 | A drink was thrust into her hand and within five minutes she was being passed from group to group as though she were the prize exhibit ; asked numerous questions she did n't know how to or have time to answer ; told endless tales of this person or that person ; until eventually , somewhat bewildered , she ended up in the bar with someone called Patrick who began regaling her with tales of old Ireland . |
| 15 | Manuscripts of his treatise The Ladder of Perfection were passed from monastery to monastery and were soon found as far afield as southern France . |
| 16 | ( 2 ) The recognition of a recognised body shall expire where a winding-up order or an administration order under Part II of the Insolvency Act 1986 is made with respect to the body or where a resolution for voluntary winding-up is passed with respect to the body or where a person is appointed administrative receiver of the body . |
| 17 | The marking of Part-numbers only comes into its own when text containing a Part-number is passed by Guide to the dispatch system : the dispatch system can readily identify part numbers within the material passed to it , and there is no ambiguity between true part numbers and other strings of characters which might happen to look like part numbers . |
| 18 | Dr Julian Hopkin says that although the altered gene is passed from generation to generation by both sexes , the mother appears to be the final passage for the development of the illness . |
| 19 | Perhaps people can only address the meeting when they hold a certain talisman ( which is passed from speaker to speaker ) . |
| 20 | Stigma is attached to AIDS because of strong social disapproval of the ‘ risk activities ’ by which HIV is passed from person to person and because of ignorance and fear . |
| 21 | Each time credit is passed from rule to rule , the rule which passes it keeps back a little for itself . |
| 22 | Each time a bucket is passed from hand to hand , a little water is spilt . |
| 23 | For example , one sage quoted by Bodine railed against the custom of saying that X and Y were married , or worse , that Mr X was married to Miss Y. Propriety would be better served , he pointed out , if this fact were always expressed in terms of the woman being married to the man , since it is the woman who is passed from father to husband and loses her identity . |
| 24 | The Act was passed in response to the situation of conflict which had developed between fascists and anti-fascists in the East End , but had a wider purpose — to exert greater social control through increased police powers and the threat to public order posed by political extremism in general . |
| 25 | As the story was passed from lip to lip , the level of destruction became greater and greater , as did the area of the land destroyed . |
| 26 | Nina was passed from person to person . |
| 27 | She was passed from hand to hand . |
| 28 | Champagne corks popped inside the East Ham home and there was a special chocolate pudding for Farrah , who was passed from hand to hand . |
| 29 | Then , on D'Arcy 's insistence , he was passed from extension to extension . |
| 30 | At two Mina was passed from father to husband . |