Example sentences of "it be passed on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asthma kills two thousand people a year , but the new research shows that the gene which can cause it is only active when it 's passed on by the mother . |
| 2 | I 'd like to move a petition containing seven hundred and twelve signatures , residents of Broadstone who request the installation of a pedestrian crossing on Broadstone Lane , bottom end of Shakespeare Drive and propose that it is passed on to the environment committee for consideration . |
| 3 | It is passed on from generation to generation in a chain , and is very difficult to break . |
| 4 | The distinctive property of cultural behaviour , as ethologists use the term , is the way it is passed on from one generation to the next . |
| 5 | It was passed on to me , as your commanding officer , to take whatever steps I felt necessary . |
| 6 | When he died it was passed on to my father and then to me . |