Example sentences of "[adv] passed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comte produced his ‘ law of the three stages ’ of societal development which maintained that all societies , past , present and future , necessarily passed through the same three stages of development . |
| 2 | The logic of such a development was that previous allegiances to Nizan were necessarily passed over in silence . |
| 3 | The house was close-carpeted in turquoise , but there was some antique furniture , obviously passed down through the family . |
| 4 | Any impression of calm and harmony is down to the fact that everyone close to the band has obviously passed the Krypton Factor -sponsored How To Tolerate Courtney test . |
| 5 | Once the war between France and the Vietminh had begun , the time had obviously passed when American operational decisions such as this would affect the fortunes of either side . |
| 6 | Oh yeah , well you 've obviously passed if they . |
| 7 | Hulme , are either garbled or entirely passed over . |
| 8 | Other gaffes include one from an Acapulco hotel which states : ‘ The manager has personally passed all the water served here . ’ |
| 9 | A girl of twelve turned her face to the wall , refused all nourishment , and so passed away . |
| 10 | The next half-hour or so passed quietly but for the sound of happy munching and quaffing . |
| 11 | The San Giorgio case is also of interest for present purposes in that it accepts that Community law does not prevent a national legal system from disallowing repayment of charges where to do so would entail unjust enrichment of the recipient , in particular where the charges have been incorporated into the price of goods and so passed on to the purchaser . |
| 12 | Five years or so passed and the boy even went to school there . |
| 13 | His pen-and-ink drawings provided Minton with unrelieved amusement , as Lyttelton has recalled : Humphrey Lyttelton 's presence at Camberwell helped make it a centre for the beginnings of ‘ trad ’ , a jazz revival which replaced ‘ the polite and effete noise which had hitherto passed for genuine jazz ’ with a new vitality and energy . |
| 14 | Polio , apparently passed on from a human epidemic in the region , had already reduced their numbers . |
| 15 | Some members of the Committee did raise the problem of the ‘ long-term costs to the community ’ likely to be brought about by the closure of Village school , but this objection was apparently passed over with no request for clarification , consultation , or serious study of the problem . |
| 16 | A tall man with an exoskeleton frightened her by demanding a retina-scan but the contacts in her eyes apparently passed muster because he let her through . |
| 17 | Although polling apparently passed off peacefully , the election campaign period had reportedly been characterized by months of repression , severe restrictions and official harassment of candidates and political activists , as the military regime continued the clampdown on the pro-democracy movement which it had brutally repressed in September 1988 [ see pp. 36221-25 for background ] . |
| 18 | A demonstration in Yaoundé on May 4 by a reported 5,000 people demanding a democratic system apparently passed off peacefully . |
| 19 | This point apparently passed unnoticed , and the practice was never mentioned again in the review , nor was any acknowledgement of it included in the final report despite protestations by the Head of Department when its contents were being negotiated . |
| 20 | Management had merely passed from private hands into those of state appointees ; society continued to be divided between those who rule and those who must obey . |
| 21 | ‘ They 've all passed over now . |
| 22 | This is a test that the English , Irish , Scots and Welsh have all passed time and again . |
| 23 | But now the earlier generations have all passed on , and today William 's home is crowded with his wife , several small children , an assortment of chickens and a gaggle of small , excitable black pigs . |
| 24 | The place has all the appropriate externals , chimneys choked with ivy , windows with jasmine , worm-eaten shutters , mossy thatch , all of which ‘ under the quiet light of a sky marbled with high clouds would have made a sort of picture which we have all passed over as a ‘ charming bit ’ , touching other sensibilities than those which are stirred by the depression of the agricultural interest , with the sad lack of farming capital , as seen constantly in the newspapers of that time ’ . |
| 25 | The tents and rucksacks all passed muster |
| 26 | Nevertheless , I got to know many of the leading linguists of the subsequent generation : , , , all passed through the MIT graduate school at that time . |
| 27 | She had only passed her driving test after her marriage and this was the first time that she had driven unaccompanied by night . |
| 28 | And if he did something dreadful to Hepzibah it would be all Carrie 's fault , though she had n't meant any harm , only passed on a message . |
| 29 | Genetical evolution is necessarily slow , because genes are only passed on once per generation : gene frequencies can therefore only change once per generation . |
| 30 | Unfortunately life is not so simple , you have only passed the first hurdle . |