Example sentences of "be [vb pp] from one person to " in BNC.

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1 As suggested above , what Community law seems to require national courts positively to do is to identify an organisational function and then to ascertain whether control of that function has been transferred from one person to another in such a way that the function retains its operational structure .
2 ‘ No risk ’ activity is safe as no infectious body fluids ( for example blood , semen , vaginal secretions ) can be transferred from one person to another .
3 They can be acquired from other people and any form of interpersonal contact may allow microorganisms to be transmitted from one person to another .
4 " It should be obvious that in the crowded habitations of the poor , who live , cook , eat , and sleep in the same apartment and pay little regard to the washing of hands , the evacuations of cholera victims which are almost colourless and without odour can be passed from one person to another .
5 " But first , ladies and gentlemen , you should know that Dr McNab holds the discredited belief that you catch cholera by drinking … more precisely , that in cholera the morbific matter is taken into the alimentary canal causing diarrhoea , that the poison is at the same time reproduced in the intestines and passes out with the discharges , and that by these so-called " rice-water " discharges becoming mingled with the drinking water of others the disease is communicated from one person to another continually multiplying itself as it goes .
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