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

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1 This is a result of the increased knowledge of the biochemistry of life and of the way in which individual characteristics are transmitted from one generation to another .
2 These are learned patterns of behaviour that are transmitted from one generation to another .
3 These mutations can be transmitted from one generation to the next in breeding studies .
4 But many migratory creatures have such precise geographical instincts that one wonders just how so detailed a knowledge of local terrain can be transmitted from one generation to another without the involvement of any learning process .
5 The inference is quite clear : blacks are innately whites , these differences are genetic and so can be passed from one generation to the next , and they have a critical effect on sporting performance .
6 Scrapie , the form of the disease that infects sheep , can be passed from one generation to the next but there exists no evidence of maternal transmission in other species .
7 That has allowed medical genealogists to draw up family trees , showing how breast and ovarian cancer has been inherited from one generation to the next .
8 Generally they are passed from one generation to another .
9 Such tastes are passed from one generation to the other , reinforced by the environment in which a family exists .
10 Nevertheless , the Templars continued meeting in secret , each coven acting like a small community , the mysteries of the Order being passed from one generation to another . ’
11 Such phrases confuse the way in which coded information is transmitted from one generation to another with the regularities of a nervous system , which itself is the outcome of an ordered developmental process .
12 It is through this concretion that the religion is conveyed from one generation to another .
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