Example sentences of "[noun] pass the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How is it that Television South West passed the quality threshold , offered by far the most money but still lost ? |
| 2 | Horsley passed the test and went off to see Thornton , who was still simmering and had nothing but dire warnings for him . |
| 3 | Employers passed the burden on to workers via higher prices . |
| 4 | After several days of heated debate , the Congress of People 's Deputies passed the programme , outlined by Mr Ryzhkov last week , without amendment . |
| 5 | The Chamber of Deputies passed the bill on Aug. 31 after modifying some of its provisions , so that in its final form the law cut state subsidies by only 50 per cent and these would be restored in full on expiry of the 180 days ; provisions for a moratorium on unpaid taxes and greater flexibility on contracts and salaries for senior government employees were voted out . |
| 6 | Our experience passed the limits of abhorrence : I lost all my earthly faculties and fought like an angel . |
| 7 | No other aircraft were produced and Harlow passed the war years in subcontract work . |
| 8 | Sarah passed the child to her and took a deep drink of her tea . |
| 9 | As Rosie and Sarah passed the toast and the boiled eggs , Ernest turned to a visiting industrial engineer from Tallin , and said : ‘ This will interest you , sir . |
| 10 | Has Iain Banks passed the Scottish writer 's mid-life crisis ? |
| 11 | But when the large hand of his watch passed the twelve , he did not move . |
| 12 | Local types were beginning to be noticed , and in 1709 the English parliament passed the first of a series of Enclosure Acts which , indirectly , would lead to breed development by curtailing the traditional practice of communal grazing and random mating . |
| 13 | In 1700 Parliament passed the Act of Settlement , laying down that if Anne died without any surviving children , as now seemed highly likely , the throne should pass to her nearest Protestant relative . |
| 14 | Parliament passed the bill and thereafter a creditor no longer had the power to detain a debtor already in prison at his pleasure , since the man could at once petition the Court for Relief of Insolvent Debtors for his discharge on the terms of his whole property , present and future , being given up for distribution among his creditors — and not only in London but to Commissioners who made circuits to hear such petitions in country districts . |
| 15 | Until the British parliament passed the Naturalisation Act in 1870 , the Queen 's subjects had been unable to renounce their citizenship . |
| 16 | If a minister clearly states the effect of a provision and there is no subsequent relevant amendment to the Bill or withdrawal of the statement it is reasonable to assume that Parliament passed the Bill on the basis that the provision would have the effect stated . |
| 17 | In my judgment there can be no doubt that , if Parliamentary privilege does not prohibit references to Hansard , the Parliamentary history shows that Parliament passed the legislation on the basis that the effect of sections 61 and 63 of the Act was to assess in-house benefits , and particularly concessionary education for teachers ' children , on the marginal cost to the employer and not on the average cost . |
| 18 | In 1885 , Parliament passed the Criminal Law Amendment Act . |
| 19 | In order to provide for such a constitutional amendment , Parliament passed the European Communities Act in 1972 , which stated that the requirements arising now or subsequently from the Treaty ‘ are without further enactment to be given legal effect or used in the United Kingdom ’ ( European Communities Act , section 2(1) ) . |
| 20 | On July 13 parliament passed the necessary legislation to privatize 7,600 state enterprises which comprised 80 per cent of the economy . |
| 21 | On June 21 , parliament passed the Internal Security and Intimidation Bill to reform the 1982 Internal Security Act under which the government had powers to ban organizations , to restrict publications and individuals , and to detain terrorism suspects without trial . |
| 22 | The motion , tabled when the government invoked a technical measure to pass the first reading of the 1993 budget without a division , failed when the Communist Party ( PCF ) deputies once again refused to back it , saying that they would not vote with the right . |
| 23 | On the following day , Franco took the salute at a victory parade which took five hours to pass the towering dais on which he stood , flanked by military officers , Party officials , Church dignitaries and government ministers . |
| 24 | I do n't want to go all the way to the left of the knitting to pass the point cam at 60 on the left . |
| 25 | Although Sharif controlled a sufficient parliamentary majority to pass the necessary legislation , he had argued in favour of reaching a consensus in order to avoid deepening social divisions in the country . |
| 26 | It was then that the feeling of utter boredom would assail him and he would be driven to join the crowd for the buses and the queue for a seat in the pictures in Hereford to pass the Saturday afternoon away . |
| 27 | All Bailey had to do was tell the Mossad why you were here and they would have got Al-Makesh to pass the information on to Bernard . |
| 28 | The march of uniformed members took more than an hour to pass the saluting base . |
| 29 | The purpose of this relief is to permit the bobbin case hook to pass the needle without touching it . |
| 30 | He forced a reluctant Parliament to pass the Statute of Uses 1535 , under which the use was " executed " so that the legal estate vested in the cestui que use ( beneficiary ) and then feudal taxes would be payable . |