• Iron has the property of readily passing from one valency condition to the other, as connects iron with the rhythmic breathing process.
• We show that channels pass through a dilated condition with altered selectivity as they are becoming defunct.
• But if the copyright is not worth even $1 to the owner, then we believe the work should pass into the public domain.

• After my father passed away, my sisters got married, but I told my mother I didn't want to get married so soon.
• Life was difficult after her father passed away in 1946 and eventually the family farm was sold.
• Sadly, my father, Roy, passed away in August 2001 after a two-year battle with cancer.

• Changes in the market started way back when the Nasdaq passed its peak last year.
• At some point the limit of acceptable risk has been passed.
• On the plus side the group has already passed its peak capital investment on the network.

• He saves the first with a fine backhand volley but is passed by his opponent on the next.
• He began the finals last week in his customary way of drawing Richards, the best volleyer in the world, to the net so that he could win points by passing him.

• The villagers pass the long winter nights by listening to stories.
• Without television, radio, or books, the bath was one way to pass the cold winter days.
• When I was awake I passed the time by munching on bags of sweets.

Synonyms

• The issue has waited until well after electoral danger has passed before emerging.
• They holed themselves up until the danger had passed.
• Remember that half-hardy and tender plants should not be planted out until all danger of frost has passed.

Synonyms

• Even now, after all that passed between us, I think what he told us was basically true.
• It seems reasonably clear that something passed between them on the subject.
• Something else had passed between them, she felt sure of it.

Synonyms

• As Mrs Bennet complained, it was cruel for the estate to pass to a Mr Collins ‘whom nobody cared about’.
• Both landlord and tenant have legal estates which may pass to others on sale, by way of gift or under the rules of testate or intestate succession.
• It is well known that cells from the blood of the foetus can pass to the mother during pregnancy.

Synonyms

• Everybody wants to dunk and showboat, but few can make free throws or pass the ball.
• But Todd was disappointed with only a point and felt his side should have passed the ball a lot better.
• The game starts and the ball is passed from player to player.

Synonyms

• One of my earlier cases was investigating a bad cheque that had been passed at a local merchant.
• When the FBI grabs him for passing counterfeit money, he cuts a deal.
• She was given community service after admitting passing counterfeit currency.

• The rent currently passing under the lease is £10, 660.00 per annum.
• Does it matter that there is real money passing in some and not others?
• The significant difference here is that no money passed at the first meeting.

• I have a license with the Nevada State Athletic Commission and they have passed me fit to box.
• In fact, if he is passed fit to play following his ankle ligament injury, he will suffer from a serious lack of match fitness.
• He was passed fit to ride by the doctor on Saturday morning.

• They watch the corporate owned media and accept the garbage passed as news.
• We feel obliged to come up with something that passes as native.
• We have to accept that most of what passes for knowledge cannot be proved beyond all doubt.

Synonyms

• Harry had been ready to let it pass, to accept his confession, and he had refused that.
• I feel that he does not believe me and although this is hard for me to accept I let it pass.
• A boy was bitten by his neighbour's dog but his parents just let it pass because they thought the boy was not seriously injured.

• That plan passed the Senate but died in the House as lawmakers wrapped up work to adjourn for the year.
• While the voucher scheme did not pass Congress, the testing proposals passed both the House and the Senate.
• The bill was removed from the legislature's schedule, together with other bills that failed to pass committee review.

Synonyms

• Everyone thought they had the right to pass comment and judgement on her.
• Justine said that when in company some people had passed remarks such as: ‘Have you tried to kill yourself?’
• They were young guys themselves and they kept passing comments.

• In the theory of our legal system that is a matter for a jury to pass upon, not for judges, though judges have to do it in the retrospective courts of criminal appeal.
• Why do we not think in terms of your right, prima facie, unless it is a very clear case, to have the matter passed upon by a jury of fellow citizens?
• If the hypothesis is that good practice suggests that the jury should pass upon the differentiation, then procedure just has to bend to the resolution of the question.

• A fellow was asked a few questions on 20th Century Irish history, and he kept saying ‘pass’, to every question.
• It is easy enough to say ‘Pass’ at once when I know that I don't know and have never known the answer to a question.

• When the Company passed its dividend in 1867, the value of its shares fell sharply.
• They'll have to pass their dividend.
• It passed its halfyear dividend and turnover fell almost 30 per cent.

• Some play that if the first three players pass, the dealer is not allowed to pass, but must bid.
• If at least one bid was made, the auction ends when two players have passed.
• Each bid must be higher than the previous one, and a player who does not wish to bid can pass.

• Before the startled girl could move, the witch made a pass with her hands and muttered a spell and the girl was instantly transformed into a bird.
• As he spoke, he made a magician's pass, and a microphone appeared in his hand.

• He fells them with one sweeping pass of his sword.
• He cut off the attacker's hand with a single pass, but another blade had already found his left side exposed.

• You can also overwrite the disk with one or more passes of random data, though this additional step is not necessary.
• In all honesty, I have yet to create a regular expression in my work without a couple of passes to get it exactly right.

• The University of London revealed she only achieved a pass in her degree.
• He went on to Christ's College, Cambridge, took a pass degree, and became a clergyman.

• She protested against women having to carry passes in the 1950s.
• About 10,000 people marched to the local police stations to turn themselves in for not carrying their passes.