Example sentences of "[conj] passing the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Avoiding the crossing of a busy road , climbing a steep hill , or passing the shops can be much more important to parents than having to walk an extra few hundred yards . |
| 2 | Perhaps to the beach here , or passing the time . |
| 3 | Critics of the plan claimed that passing the burden of expenditure to states and local authorities would mean increased fuel taxes and higher train and bus fares . |
| 4 | Leo McKern has some fun answering frequent calls of nature and waving a huge condom around , but he 's doing no more or less than passing the time until the phoney climax of the First Act curtain , by which time you 're aware that as a play Boswell is a fraud . |
| 5 | Should n't we now be acknowledging blame rather than passing the buck ? |
| 6 | They were floppy with laughter , leaning against each other and passing the magic atoms backward and forwards like little kids playing clapping games in the cement playgrounds of primary schools . |
| 7 | Follow Dušní Street to your left towards the river , turning right into U milosrdných and passing the Church of SS Simon and Jude of 1615–20 on your left . |
| 8 | It 's precious meeting the odd soul on a high top and passing the time of day with them , knowing that no matter who or what they are , you share the same interests in wildlife , wilderness and solitude . |
| 9 | After a few days had passed , an old woman was walking from the Doon bridge into Alloway village and passing the partially ruined Kirk Alloway , when she heard a loud bellowing sound coming from the church . |
| 10 | Handsome , glossy blue-black , red-throated , white breasted , fork-tailed adult swallows dipped and twisted and soared , snatching winged insects from the sky and passing the insect ‘ packets ’ to their wire clinging young . |
| 11 | Study rather to understand the subject — following our suggestions in chapters 2 and 4 on studying and note-making — and passing the examination will be assured as a by-product ; the examination need hold no terrors for you . |
| 12 | The point must not be pressed too far , since the statute obviously has a broad purpose ( or , to speak more precisely , those who collaborated in framing and passing the statute had a broad purpose ) which is expressed in the words . |
| 13 | There is also a strong argument for using several of the machines as word processors or graphics generators and passing the data on to a larger central system for final assembly . |
| 14 | With a certain creepy deference to the impassive head on its platter , the governor opened the meeting by onswitching a tridvid record and passing the conch to Dr Groome . |
| 15 | They were in the station now , reaching and passing the moment when deceleration made the blurred nameboards legible . |
| 16 | Although passage through the gut did not improve germination rates , it must be remembered that the birds are the only frugivores large enough to deal with some of the fruits , e.g. Casuarius casuarius in Queensland taking Beilschmiedia ( Lauraceae ) fruits and passing the seeds more or less intact even though they are 6 cm diameter and weigh 52g . |
| 17 | Thanks Dick I says to him , taking it from him and passing the bottle , perhaps I will , I 'd no idea it might be valuable , I just like copper and brass bits and pieces . |
| 18 | But for some strange reason , and I do n't know whether they direct it to Christian the last shot of the film , almost unnoticeable because the credits were going up she went back into church and it was a communion service and all you saw was her receiving the bread and passing the plate and the plate was to the young black lad on the farm and you thought , he 's come back ! |
| 19 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 20 | As we sat on her open decks in the fresh , warm air , we realised how sensible this was when passing the other 200-odd cruisers on the river : big and flat-topped like aircraft-carriers , almost hermetically-sealed and air-conditioned throughout ; most with television in every cabin , shops , disco and Muzak . |
| 21 | It may be as fleeting as a look of acknowledgement when passing the patient 's bed ; or it may be less transient , for example helping the patient through the stages of accepting and coping with chronic illness ; or when a patient has a mental illness , it may be the major emphasis for most interactions . |
| 22 | The basic task of the judge when construing legislation is to ascertain Parliament 's intention when passing the Act . |
| 23 | Looking at the matter generally , I can not believe that that could conceivably have been the intention of Parliament when passing the Children Act 1989 and thereby , if Judge Galpin is right , taking away from children within England and Wales the right to have an order made in their best interests by returning them to where they ought to be , which was a right which those children had , and parents acting on their behalf were able to claim in the courts , until 14 October 1991 . |
| 24 | The Hague Convention had been signed on behalf of the United Kingdom in March 1970 and was undoubtedly in the contemplation of the legislature when passing the Act of 1975 , notwithstanding that the Convention was only ratified by the United Kingdom on 16 July 1976 : see In re Westinghouse Electric Corporation Uranium Contract Litigation M.D.L. Docket No. 235 ( Nos. 1 and 2 ) [ 1978 ] A.C. 547 , 608 . |
| 25 | The triumphant jockey , whose only previous win at Classic level was in the Italian St Leger , gave a victory salute with his whip when passing the post . |
| 26 | He was satisfied that what parliament had in mind when passing the act was that there must be a person in life when the injuries were sustained . |
| 27 | When passing the 1976 act , it might have been that no particular attention had been paid to a situation in which injuries were sustained before birth , but parliament had clearly stated that a person had to sustain injuries and die from them before relatives could claim damages . |
| 28 | He was satisfied that what parliament had in mind when passing the act was that there must be a person in life when the injuries were sustained . |
| 29 | The bar student must , according to the quaint custom , eat dinners at his Inn of Court as well as passing the Bar examinations before he can be called . |