Example sentences of "were passed [adv prt] [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 | The money collected went to the feast fund , but the cakes and biscuits were passed around among the villagers gathered outside the pub . |
| 13 | The interim report of the Degree Courses Review Group was discussed and DAB 's concerns were passed back to the group . |