Example sentences of "passed on [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a responsibility passed on through the generations . ’ |
| 2 | It 's a skill passed on through the generations . |
| 3 | As land is passed on over the generations , it gradually ceases to be a viable unit . |
| 4 | probably by going to these meetings I can pick up the be best practice for ideas which can be passed on to the others |
| 5 | A hot potato is being passed on to the courts and ministers are safe in the knowledge they can hold up their hands and say : ‘ We tried everything we could ’ . ’ |
| 6 | The document is basically a briefing document in order that every piece of information erm that is available to the police is then able to be passed on to the officers who are actually going to do the job . |
| 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 | Those costs have been passed on to the residents , so the gap has widened . |
| 9 | If the last is the case then those profits will either be retained in the company and reinvested , or they will be passed on to the shareholders as increased dividends . |
| 10 | In a highly competitive market the returns would be a satisfactory performance measure ; for a monopolist it might merely reflect that any inefficiencies in service have been passed on to the customers who have no choice but to pay the higher prices . |
| 11 | Years of close military co-operation , including joint work in missile development , have given Egypt valuable information about its former Iraqi ally , which has presumably been passed on to the Americans . |
| 12 | At that time the tax that banks deducted from interest payments to depositors was passed on to the taxmen each quarter . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There is no contact-tracing as such , but , because it is felt that most of the problem is due to prostitutes ( an unlikely truth in any European country ) , the examining doctor can fill in a form which is then passed on to the police who will undertake a search . |
| 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 | In addition , the heavy tax rates of the late-Seventies would have made it virtually impossible , had one or other of the pair died , for the company in its entirety to be passed on to the children , Laura 's most cherished ideal . |
| 18 | If the recession is hitting mums and dads , it 's certainly not being passed on to the children . |
| 19 | He repeated the information he 'd passed on to the Abigails and to Mr Plant : that George Joseph Smith had bought fish for the late Miss Munday , and eggs for Mrs Burnham and Miss Lofty . |
| 20 | Nutrients from the sap are passed on to the ants in the mealybugs ' excrement . |
| 21 | To meet with the department to discuss with them how objectives can be passed on to the pupils . |
| 22 | It is something that is passed on down the generations , from each High King or Queen to the direct heir . ’ |
| 23 | The deputy chief of France 's air and border police , Mr Pierre Quilici , said the warning had been passed on by the Americans several days ago . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |