I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bill is passed by parliament (= it is made into a law )
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The bill was passed by Parliament last May.
a bus pass (= a card that allows you to make several bus journeys )
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Most of the students have a termly bus pass.
a car passes/overtakes sb
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A small black car overtook me on my left.
a deadline passes (= the date or time by which you must do something goes past )
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The deadline had already passed for him to raise the money.
a month passes/goes by
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Seven months went by before he returned.
a mountain pass (= a path or road between mountains )
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Their journey took them through river valleys and over mountain passes.
a passing comment (= a quick comment made without thinking about it very carefully )
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She got upset about a passing comment I made about her clothes.
a passing mention (= a brief mention when other things seem more important )
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There was only a passing mention of the event in the paper.
a passing reference (= one that you make while you are talking about something else )
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He made only a passing reference to his injury.
a passing resemblance (= slight )
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There was no more than a passing resemblance between the sisters.
a passing stranger (= one you pass in the street )
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Do not give your camera to a passing stranger and ask him to take a picture of you.
a passing thought (= a quick, not very serious thought )
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He never gives his appearance more than a passing thought.
a shudder ran/passed/went through sb
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A shudder ran through him at the touch of her fingers.
a storm abates/passes
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We sat and waited for the storm to pass.
an examination pass
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To apply, you need at least two A-level examination passes.
become legend/pass into legend
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The incident became legend.
boarding pass
bus pass
come/go/pass etc through an entrance
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People passed in single file through the narrow entrance.
danger passes (= there is no longer any danger )
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At last the sound of bombing had stopped and the danger had passed.
go/pass through a cycle
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Advanced economies seem to go through a regular cycle.
go/pass unnoticed
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His remark went unnoticed by everyone except me.
Hail Mary pass
hand/pass/give/send out a leaflet
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Students were handing out election leaflets at the station.
have a passing/nodding acquaintance with sth (= have only slight knowledge or experience of something )
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He has a passing acquaintance with a lot of different subjects.
mention sth in passing (= mention something without much detail, especially while you were talking about something else )
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She mentioned in passing that she had an eight-year-old son.
mourn sb’s death/loss/passing
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She still mourns the death of her husband.
mourn...passing
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The old steam trains were much loved, and we all mourn their passing .
pass (a) comment British English (= give an opinion )
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He looked at my photos but he didn’t pass comment.
pass a law
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New Jersey passed a law requiring helmets for scooter riders.
pass a test (= succeed in it )
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She passed her driving test first time.
pass an act
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Once Parliament has passed an act, it becomes the law of the land.
pass an exam (= succeed in it )
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Did you pass your final exam?
pass an examination (= succeed in it )
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I really hope that Suzie passes the examination.
pass an inspection
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The supermarket can only trade if it passes the cleanliness inspection.
pass judgment (on sth) (= give your opinion, especially a negative one )
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Our aim is to help him, not to pass judgment on what he has done.
pass legislation (= officially approve it so that it becomes law )
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Legislation was passed banning the use of child labour.
pass on a disease ( also transmit a disease formal )
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They may pass the disease on to their children.
pass on a gene (= pass a gene to your children )
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All animals try to maximize their chances of passing on their genes to the next generation.
pass on a tip
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The writer passes on many tips that she has learned over the years.
pass on some advice (= give someone advice that you have learned or been given )
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Readers can pass on advice about gardening.
pass on/relay/deliver a message (= give someone a message from someone else )
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I asked Rob if he would pass on a message for me.
pass sentence formal (= officially say what someone’s punishment will be )
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It is now my duty to pass sentence.
pass sth from one generation to the next
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Traditional customs are passed from one generation to the next.
pass the time (= spend a period of time doing something )
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The prisoners pass the time reading, or writing letters.
pass/approve a resolution
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The Security Council passed a resolution condemning the country’s aggression.
pass/carry/approve a motion (= accept it by voting )
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The motion was carried unanimously.
passed...death sentence on
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In 1987, the government passed a death sentence on the river by granting permission for the new dam.
passed...vote of no confidence
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On April 22 the National Assembly passed a vote of no confidence in the government.
pass/fail a course
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If you pass the course, you get a diploma in psychology.
passing fancy (= the feeling did not last long )
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Wanting to go to Mexico was just a passing fancy .
Things have come to a pretty pass
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Things have come to a pretty pass , if you can’t say what you think without causing a fight.
throw away/pass up/turn down a chance (= not accept or use an opportunity )
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Imagine throwing up a chance to go to America!
time passes/goes by
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As time passed, she thought less and less about her family back home.
transmit/pass on a virus (= pass it from one person or animal to another )
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The rabies virus is transmitted in saliva when one animal bites another.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
on
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What matters is how many genes are passed on .
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We look this problem firmly in the eye and pass on .
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Mr Fitton passed on , he did.
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If they agree on a pardon, it is passed on to the White House.
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For a start there was the gloomy news he had to pass on to Jacqui.
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I have a tip to pass on to other readers.
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Phoenix Councilman Craig Tribken passed on the offer, sort of.
■ NOUN
act
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Once Parliament has passed an act , it becomes the law of the land.
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Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to accelerate the transition of telephone and video services from regulated to competitive markets.
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I have to be loyal to the decision of Parliament, which passed the War Crimes Act 1991.
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Then, a couple of weeks ago, Congress passed the Telecommunications Reform Act , which eases restrictions on cross-ownership of media.
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She passed several acts to make legal strikes all but impossible, and to imprison her opponents at will.
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At the same time, Congress passed an act reducing tariff rates.
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The basic task of the judge when construing legislation is to ascertain Parliament's intention when passing the Act .
bill
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As a result, there are large bills to be paid - bills which are being passed on to ordinary community charge payers.
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In any case, the amendment was lost when the bill failed to pass .
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The Bill will soon pass through the House and go to the House of Lords.
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Three, in one form or another, are still in the budget bill passed by Congress and vetoed by President Clinton.
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The dissenting Tory peers stayed away; and the Bill was passed .
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Under the bill the House passed yesterday, individuals still would not have to prove insolvency.
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A bill was passed reducing the tax profit level from 50 to 40 percent and 35 percent in agriculture.
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At issue is the telecom bill , passed by Congress overwhelmingly last week.
buck
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If in doubt, pass the buck .
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Shouldn't we now be acknowledging blame rather than passing the buck ?
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I personally refuse to pass the buck .
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We were in the happy position of being able to pass the buck .
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Some patients and carers were also unhappy about what they saw as sub-optimal care or different services passing the buck .
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Mr. Loyden Is not the Minister passing the buck ?
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When anything like this happened, every office-holder in the community made speeches passing the buck on to the police department.
comment
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I feel that I can not allow this statement to pass without due comment .
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In years past, the president sent the budget over and the Chamber dutifully passed it with little comment .
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Because persuading people to be unpaid referees is difficult it could be argued that editors have to pass the comments on.
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Anyone recording or passing on such a comment is in danger now that records are open.
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I trust you will pass the above comments to the Licensing Sub-Committee when they meet to determine this case.
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All this makes for a sea change in our lives, yet passes without comment during this campaign.
exam
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She had to pass her exams .
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Anyone who has passed an exam to get into an important university is dedicated enough to do well for the firm.
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Reply: It was the day I passed my exam .
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Nevertheless, fifteen of the eighteen students passed the exam .
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If teachers only got paid for pupils passing their exams , there are some pupils who'd never get any education at all.
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She graduated and passed bar exams in two states on her first try.
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I want to pass all my exams , I want my mum and dad to be proud of me.
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Students had to pass oral and written exams before moving up.
generation
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The songs of some birds are passed down the generations by education.
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The narratives help parents become conscious of the negative and positive traditions passed down through the generations .
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A generation passed , an entire generation.
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They're living proof that asthma can be passed from generation to generation.
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The particles themselves remain separate and discrete when it comes to being passed on to the next generation .
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Such tastes are passed from one generation to the other, reinforced by the environment in which a family exists.
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They are part of the culture of society and are passed on from one generation to the next.
hand
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Iris passed a hand over her forehead.
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The dew vanished from the flowers; they began to lose their freshness and to wilt, passing from hand to hand.
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Coins, jewelry, postage stamps, a Matisse litho, all passed through my hands .
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Directors Share Protection provides for the shares of a director who dies to pass into the right hands .
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Many of the germs that cause disease pass from our hands into our mouths; so can environmental metal toxins like lead.
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She closed her eyes and passed her hand over them and looked again.
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I put the gun down and passed my hand over my eyes.
information
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The Senate panel decided that it wanted to question Fiers and George concerning whether they had passed the information on to Gates.
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Informed by the two farmers, local authorities passed the information up the chain of command.
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It passed this information on in a terrible hushed whine that seemed to creep in and fill the head.
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A paddle stroke is like any other model or diagram which is used to pass on information .
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Ubaldo Valesio reckoned that some one in the family was passing on information .
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Most of us have tendencies to pass information outwards rather than to allow it inwards.
law
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It was very good to pass a special law for that.
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He lobbied the legislature at Albany to pass a law limiting electric currents to eight hundred volts.
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In due course, the government's response was to pass a law and appoint an Alkali Inspector named Angus Smith.
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I see well. meaning legislators across the land passing laws against themselves as if the victim will always be some one else.
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Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan all passed laws to restrict benefits and introduce time limits.
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Could they possibly have passed any laws against those odds?
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The final version of the Weimar Constitution was passed into law on 11 August 1919.
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Catholics passed laws against intermarriage between people of the two faiths.
legislation
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Both states have recently passed legislation to make securitisation simpler.
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They passed legislation that often made it impossible for ordinary citizens to sue for their injuries.
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Franklin placed his own hopes on the idea that the Westminster Parliament would pass legislation to set up a union.
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After the meeting, some Democrats, recognizing the difficulty of passing taggant legislation , called for a study of the matter.
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Twenty three states have passed term limits legislation restricting the amount of time their congressional members may serve.
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To pass , the legislation needed 31 votes.
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If the Legislature fails to pass enabling legislation , some will place their product elsewhere.
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Last week, the House passed , 418-9, legislation that was later adopted by the Senate on a voice vote.
message
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I was in the middle of them both and passing on horrible messages from one to the other.
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Nor did Bo ever meet his superior, who passed him messages through an intermediary.
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The way horses pass messages between themselves will be the way that they will try and impart a message to us.
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And because of this luxury, the women used me to pass messages .
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I should have told her it was important to pass the message on immediately.
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The book trade should have an interest in passing on that message .
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He might try you again, but I said I'd pass the message along.
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We can always pass the message on to other runners.
resolution
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Following a debate on Nov. 23 it passed a resolution giving Gorbachev two weeks to produce detailed plans.
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Such use of the will is far different from what ordinarily passes for resolution in the everyday world.
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Parliament would have unlimited access to the funds, but would have to pass specific resolutions to appropriate money.
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Despite the southern opposition, both houses passed the resolution .
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In such cases the company's directors pass a resolution that the company be wound up.
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The House passed the resolution by 409 to 3, while it went through the Senate by 8-to 3.
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Did it pass resolutions to spend more money and get itself organised to ensure that the police could run themselves properly?
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Then in 1758 the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting passed a surprising resolution to exclude slave buyers and sellers.
sentence
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She felt suddenly, confusedly, a little like a man who had voluntarily passed a death sentence on himself.
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Lord Taylor's main point is to suggest that judges should pass sentence with an eye to the public's expectations.
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They will have to pass shorter sentences .
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The law must be changed to allow the courts to pass severe prison sentences on these so-called joyriders.
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Read in studio Magistrates watched the seven minute video before passing sentence .
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Judge Gerald Butler told him he had no option but to pass a custodial sentence .
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But the disappearance of his son, Larry, in the war has passed its own sentence on the family.
test
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I could use you - if you pass the tests , of course.
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The disabled could be shut out of gun ownership because of difficulty passing a proficiency test .
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If he passes the test , he ascends D4 feet that round.
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In that eventuality, such an algorithm, if it could be found, would presumably pass the Turing test .
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Have I passed the memory test ?
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Even this, however, gives little clue about what life-forms may pass the survival test .
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Such joints are said to pass most of the tests in the specifications for wood adhesives.
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Caldwell passed a high-school proficiency test and left home at 17.
time
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She knew all that and, more, she had actually been passing at the time .
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He passes through it every time he rides to the old earth fort on the crest.
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The pilots consequently had nothing to do and passed their time playing cards.
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He passed the time of day with Two Coats the tramp.
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Today, I am patient about the passing of time .
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I heard you at it so I thought I'd pop in and pass the time of day.
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I passed my time watching the inmates do exercises.
vote
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A drive in a limousine is passed by silent vote .
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The Presidio bill and the huge parks package it was tied to passed by unanimous voice vote .
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The bill was passed by 241 votes to 55, with 55 abstentions.
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A few hours later, it passed by seventy votes to twenty-three.
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Congress formally passed a vote of thanks to the new president.
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The motion to continue proceedings on the bill was passed by 319 votes to 316 with seven deliberate Conservative abstentions.
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With the new dynamic of California politics, getting any ballot measure passed with just Anglo votes is fast becoming impossible.
■ VERB
let
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They knocked against linked bodies, which parted to let them pass .
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As they had need, they drew aside to let ore wagons pass with their loads of concentrate and matte.
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He stood aside to let it pass .
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Darkness threw a cloak over my strangeness, so that people let me pass with a nod or a softly called greeting.
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I let two more minutes pass then tap Des on the shoulder.
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I let three beats pass before I said anything.
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She was simply more aggressive, less able to let things pass than Lisbie.
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People got clear off the trail to let them pass .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
come to a pretty pass
make/pass water
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For example, to make water , burn one weight of hydrogen with eight of oxygen.
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How often should I make water changes, and how should I mix the salt?
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I can not pass water without a forgotten claimant reaching for what is his.
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Pollutions which are high in suspended solids make water appear murky and leave deposits on the beds and banks of watercourses.
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The highest-performance combination of rocket propellants is hydrogen and oxygen, which burn to make water .
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The same device, run backwards, reacts hydrogen and oxygen together to make water and generate electrical power.
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Topping up is by a hose, placed soas to pass water through the filter before reaching the pond.
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Zubrin proposes using the Sabatier process to react hydrogen with carbon dioxide to make water vapor and methane.
mention/note sth in passing
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He noted, in passing , that he had lasted longer than Texas Sen.
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In Exodus the quails were mentioned only in passing .
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Like many more, presumably, we mention Ribblehead in passing .
pass muster (as sth)
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Although they hail from Quebec, the hurdy-gurdy of this ensemble is sure to pass muster with the average colonial.
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And Mel Gibson does pass muster as a filthy freedom fighter with a talent for decapitation.
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As pitchforks they certainly pass muster .
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Critically surveying her reflection, she told herself she would pass muster .
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It is based on a true story so outrageous that it would never in a million years have passed muster as fiction.
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It may pass muster as television commentary but on the page its studied neutrality rings false.
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The schools might not have been able to offer courses that would pass muster .
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When it came to the physical attributes that Fred plainly valued, Lou Spooner passed muster .
pass the buck
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a bunch of politicians all trying to pass the buck
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Diplomats say NATO is clearly at fault, and that officials there are trying to pass the buck .
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It's easy to pass the buck and blame someone else for your failure.
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It was his mistake but he tried to pass the buck to another manager.
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You were in charge of that project, so don't try to pass the buck .
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I personally refuse to pass the buck .
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If in doubt, pass the buck .
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Mr. Loyden Is not the Minister passing the buck ?
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Shouldn't we now be acknowledging blame rather than passing the buck ?
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Some patients and carers were also unhappy about what they saw as sub-optimal care or different services passing the buck .
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We were in the happy position of being able to pass the buck .
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When anything like this happened, every office-holder in the community made speeches passing the buck on to the police department.
pass the hat around
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Airbus will anyway soon be passing the hat around again for an enormous 700-seat aeroplane, much bigger than the Boeing 747.
pass the time of day (with sb)
passing days/weeks/years etc
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As a young woman, she was pretty, slender, and graceful and she remained so with the passing years.
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Dent is a throwback to medieval times bypassed by modern progress, an anachronism that has survived the passing years.
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Over the passing years, time had been cruel to nearly everybody else.
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Over the passing years, time had been kind to Caduta Massi.
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The passing years took their toll, of course, and he did go into a decline when Grandmother died.
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Through the passing days, the biting cruelty of it all slowly healed, leaving only the scar tissue.
the passing of time/the years
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The passing of the years has not weakened his artistic ability.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Do you want to go fishing Saturday?" "Sorry, I'll have to pass this time."
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"I'm taking my driving test today." "Do you think you'll pass ?"
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A big Cadillac passed us as we walked up the hill.
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A police car passed us doing 90 miles an hour.
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As time passes, the disease progresses through several distinct stages.
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Congress has passed an education-reform law.
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Could you pass the salt, please?
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Dan's worried he won't pass calculus.
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Details of the attack had been passed to enemy agents.
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Do you think you'll pass ?
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Dr. Todd said the pain would pass in a day or two.
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Each car has to be passed by a team of inspectors before it leaves the factory.
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Ellis quickly passed the note to the woman, looking around to check that no one had noticed.
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Hey, pass me the ball!
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His blood pressure was rather high so the doctor couldn't pass him as fit for the job.
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I'll get you some aspirin - I pass the drugstore on the way to work.
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I pass her house every day on my way to work.
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If he stays injury-free, Stumpel should pass his personal best of 76 points.
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Johnson passes to White, White passes to Eliot, and Eliot scores!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Actually, they ran better than they passed, although they passed spectacularly on occasion.
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He drums his fingers on the chairback as he passes.
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In August that year $ 25 million worth of vaccine was backlogged and in danger of passing its six-month expiration date.
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Moreover, the most important legislation for bond market investors -- the 1996 budget bill -- has already been passed.
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Taylor receive discounts from publishers, which they agree to pass along to customers.
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This falling from the branch business, she thought, made you realise how the years were passing.
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Who ever had it then still had it, or had passed it on.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
back
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Joe Worrall who had a good game otherwise, decided this was a back pass .
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I was astonished how fast the game has become since the back pass rule has changed.
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Possession is nine-tenths of the law and the back pass is safe and sure.
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A back pass to McConnell saw the keeper mis-hit the clearance to Ferguson who provided the perfect lob into the net.
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This time the keeper made a hash of a back pass from Brown.
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He can not handle the back pass ... never has done.
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The defence as a whole do not deal with the back pass rule well.
free
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They may soon be getting free bus passes but they know how to rock.
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But a free pass to first base is not help.
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Langbaurgh and Stockton are both considering either scrapping free passes or asking pensioners to contribute towards them.
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Bus pass reprieve: Langbaurgh pensioners' free bus passes have been given a reprieve until the end of April.
high
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The Hercules made another, much higher pass , its whine almost lost in the roaring sea.
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From the highest mountain pass to the busiest city centre.
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This is a high pass , and closed for seven months in the year.
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If he shouted aloud then - as in the high alpine passes - the rocks would crash down on him.
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Snow may linger on the high passes as late as June.
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And then, at last, I crossed a high mountain pass to discover smoke drifting across my route.
long
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The Springboks poured forward, long passes threatening to release Paulse and Williams.
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If they could get over a long and difficult pass in the mountains, they would be safe.
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First his long pass , and a short one from Daniel Gartner, set up a simple second for Rigon.
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On a long pass route, the legs of Michael Irvin and Rod Woodson became entangled.
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Further, his long passes , very frequently missing out one player, always threatened something interesting in the middle.
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As a result Chelsea became increasingly reliant on the ability of Gianfranco Zola to thread long passes through thickets of players.
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A long pass by Andy Gregory almost conceded an early try but Graeme Hallas knocked on as he went for the interception.
low
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Long, low passes confused the most dogged defences to create scoring chances.
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At first, it appeared as if Hostetler completed a low , third-down pass to Tim Brown.
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I had wanted to cross a relatively low pass at the western end of the range.
short
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The Quakers relied too heavily on the mighty hit rather than short passes .
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Hostetler dumped one short pass to Derrick Fenner, who rambled into the end zone.
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Brad Johnson, filling in for the injured Warren Moon, completed three short passes .
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The Lions play a perplexingly soft defense, where they willingly allow teams to throw short , underneath passes .
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This means that the parasites live shorter lives and pass through more generations in a given time than their hosts.
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Williams is the blocker and catcher of short passes .
■ NOUN
bus
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I can't even get a bus pass .
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They may soon be getting free bus passes but they know how to rock.
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I got a social worker and she suggested I get a bus pass , so I could get to town.
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Townspeople are being asked to sign a petition to help save the bus passes of Langbaurgh's 22,000 pensioners and disabled.
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All the aggravation about replacing by bus pass , credit cards and library cards etc, all because I was thoughtless.
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Free bus passes offered to parents in return for acting as supervisors.
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Bus pass reprieve: Langbaurgh pensioners' free bus passes have been given a reprieve until the end of April.
mark
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It is not a pass mark and yet all children are supposed to aspire to it.
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Instead, the pass mark was set higher for girls!
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For example, what pass mark would they set for an examination they are about to sit?
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How would students react to you setting a pass mark of say 80%?
mountain
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From the highest mountain pass to the busiest city centre.
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Employees try to avoid mountain passes , commercial airports and major cities.
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Its passengers swing around like boxed chickens in the back of a livestock lorry on a mountain pass .
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Their bags were filled with food and provisions light to carry but strong enough to bring them over the mountain passes .
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One of the bulls had been bitten by a wildcat one night, on a mountain pass coming down from Dolpo.
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I knew that true love, real love, could not make its way through the mountain passes to North Chittendon.
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And then, at last, I crossed a high mountain pass to discover smoke drifting across my route.
rate
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In addition, the pass rates go up and down like a yo-yo.
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In November 1988 the pass rate was 15%.
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These courses proved highly popular with our lads and there was practically a hundred percent pass rate .
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The results are astonishing-more than twice the average A-C pass rate for the school.
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He maintains he achieved his high pass rate by year-long cramming with similar papers.
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But the crux of the change is the end of the grade C, generally accepted as a pass rate .
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The widespread confusion between raw number of passes and percentage pass rates is illustrative here.
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These included the effects on the pass rate of different pass marks, and of different aggregation procedures.
rusher
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Bruce should provide help as a run defender while Wallace would be used as a designated pass rusher .
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Of the Jones guys, Marcus is rated the better pass rusher .
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A defensive coach, Tobin selected defensive end Simeon Rice of Illinois, regarded as the best pass rusher in the draft.
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When you get a chance to get a first-rate pass rusher , you better take it.
touchdown
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He was beaten on three touchdown passes , two by the Seahawks' Joey Galloway.
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Hostetler capped the drive by evading the pass rush, scrambling to his left and lofting a four-yard touchdown pass to Jett.
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Hostetler connected with his old favorite, Brown, for a 19-yard touchdown pass .
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In one game in the exhibition season, Raiders coach Mike White challenged a call on a touchdown pass .
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He threw 17 touchdown passes and only five interceptions to finish with a 100. 7 rating.
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Troy Aikman threw a six-yard, third-down touchdown pass to tight end Eric Bjornson after a six-play, 15-yard drive.
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That one sent the Raiders spiraling into a realm of hopelessness after Elway threw a late game-winning touchdown pass .
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They had done the same on a game-winning touchdown pass against Kansas City in Week 2.
■ VERB
board
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After that for ferries, but not other classes of vessel, boarding passes were introduced.
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You will have to see him Patel was handed his boarding pass .
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He gestured to me to push my way up to the front and then pressed a precious boarding pass into my hand.
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At the airport, they provide that number along with photo identification to receive a boarding pass .
catch
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Floyd has also caught 16 passes .
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He had nine carries for 47 yards and caught three passes for 48 yards.
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Michael Irvin caught six passes and never once signaled for his own first down.
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Jeff George threw for 260 yards, with Tim Brown catching seven passes for 107 yards.
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Truitt caught 10 passes for 131 yards.
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Ismail caught only three passes for 95 yards, while nursing a minor ankle injury.
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He caught just three passes for 25 yards and seemed to be used as a decoy most of the game.
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Starting wideout James Jett ran up and down the field busily, but he never caught a single pass .
complete
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He has completed 121 of 218 passes for 1, 354 yards and eight touchdowns with five interceptions this season.
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Junior Marquez Shaw showed a lot of poise in completing nine of 12 passes for 150 yards and three touchdowns.
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He completed five of nine passes , including a touchdown.
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Junior Tim Carey completed 7 of 11 passes but had one perfectly thrown 40-yard bomb dropped by a backup wide receiver.
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He completed 25 of 37 passes for 271 yards, but threw two interceptions and only one touchdown pass.
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Remember how Dameyune Craig completed seven-of-28 passes against the press-man?
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Elway completed 14 of 23 passes for 227 yards, and tight end Shannon Sharpe had eight receptions for 174 yards.
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Hobert quickly released the ball on third-and-eight, completing a 10-yard pass to Daryl Hobbs at the Kansas City 14.
drop
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Weinke threw off-target and the Seminoles' receivers dropped passes on many occasions when they were open.
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But Andre Hastings dropped a pass on first down.
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There was a fumble on the 1-yard line and Brown dropped a sure touchdown pass .
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Dudley also dropped one pass and watched Ray Lewis wrest away another for an interception.
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They dropped passes and blew assignments.
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And in that one, Yancey Thigpen dropped a sure touchdown pass that would have won the game.
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Do you remember any 49ers dropping passes this season?
make
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He'd recognize him again, and make the pass .
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She goes on to make two great passes , two assists, and then sink another three-point basket.
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He made some measure of pass at me.
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He looks too much to make a big pass rather than do what comes naturally, which is score.
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By the by Sylvia de Charmante made a huge pass at him and he turned her down flat.
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He made several passes in the dark, shot down one B-24 and badly damaged a second.
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He is at his best when he comes inside, makes a positive pass and then gets on his bike.
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He swept down the gorge, circled round, and made a second pass at the Falls to lose altitude.
score
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Mr Foecke has claimed he scored passes in 13 out of 13 final exam papers.
throw
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When Hostetler returns, he will no longer throw passes toward Ismail.
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When Zeier finally found an open man downfield, he threw a pass off the head of umpire Bob Wagner.
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For every breakaway, or thrown pass , there is some one willing to hustle down court to play defense.
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But that was before Mike Catt began to throw out his wonder passes .
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He threw 17 touchdown passes and only five interceptions to finish with a 100. 7 rating.
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It was the sturdy Bates who fielded Morris's kick in the last second and threw the long pass inside to Davies.
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Humphries responded by throwing four touchdown passes , including three to Tony Martin.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
come to a pretty pass
come to pass
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And so it came to pass.
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But it's not really surprising that this accommodation should come to pass.
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It really did come to pass.
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It will come to pass, shortly I presume, that others will come forward to claim they wrote the book.
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None of this may come to pass, but all efforts to prevent it so far have backfired.
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Such regulations may someday come to pass, but perhaps not soon enough for the butternut.
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The odds on this coming to pass are daunting.
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Whatever the priestess at Delphi said would happen infallibly came to pass.
make/pass water
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For example, to make water , burn one weight of hydrogen with eight of oxygen.
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How often should I make water changes, and how should I mix the salt?
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I can not pass water without a forgotten claimant reaching for what is his.
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Pollutions which are high in suspended solids make water appear murky and leave deposits on the beds and banks of watercourses.
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The highest-performance combination of rocket propellants is hydrogen and oxygen, which burn to make water .
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The same device, run backwards, reacts hydrogen and oxygen together to make water and generate electrical power.
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Topping up is by a hose, placed soas to pass water through the filter before reaching the pond.
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Zubrin proposes using the Sabatier process to react hydrogen with carbon dioxide to make water vapor and methane.
pass muster (as sth)
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Although they hail from Quebec, the hurdy-gurdy of this ensemble is sure to pass muster with the average colonial.
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And Mel Gibson does pass muster as a filthy freedom fighter with a talent for decapitation.
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As pitchforks they certainly pass muster .
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Critically surveying her reflection, she told herself she would pass muster .
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It is based on a true story so outrageous that it would never in a million years have passed muster as fiction.
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It may pass muster as television commentary but on the page its studied neutrality rings false.
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The schools might not have been able to offer courses that would pass muster .
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When it came to the physical attributes that Fred plainly valued, Lou Spooner passed muster .
pass the time of day (with sb)
passing days/weeks/years etc
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As a young woman, she was pretty, slender, and graceful and she remained so with the passing years.
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Dent is a throwback to medieval times bypassed by modern progress, an anachronism that has survived the passing years.
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Over the passing years, time had been cruel to nearly everybody else.
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Over the passing years, time had been kind to Caduta Massi.
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The passing years took their toll, of course, and he did go into a decline when Grandmother died.
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Through the passing days, the biting cruelty of it all slowly healed, leaving only the scar tissue.
the passing of time/the years
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The passing of the years has not weakened his artistic ability.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a narrow mountain pass
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Comet Shoemaker-Levy passed through our solar system and crashed into Jupiter July 16, 1994.
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Davis scored on a 40-yard pass from Elway.
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Students must obtain a pass before leaving campus.
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They scored a direct hit of the target on their second pass .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He has completed 121 of 218 passes for 1, 354 yards and eight touchdowns with five interceptions this season.
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He looks too much to make a big pass rather than do what comes naturally, which is score.
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The Bruins set up a play for Johnson in the low post, but Dollar traveled while trying to make the pass .
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The harvester moved round the field in a strict square, so that the standing crop grew smaller and smaller with every pass .
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This is a classic hail Mary pass .