Example sentences of "be passed [adv prt] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But psychological violence stays with you , it festers , it can be passed on from generation to generation . ’ |
| 2 | Staff at Slimbridge say their 7,000 waterfowl are unlikely to be affected by the outbreak , which ca n't be passed on from bird to bird . |
| 3 | It remains a secret , though it is said to be passed on from chairman to chairman in a discreet whisper . |
| 4 | The shape-specific polymers continued to be passed on from potency to potency even after none of the original solute was left in the solution . |
| 5 | Folklore has been passed down from generation to generation , some of it full of deep and obvious truth , some mere dogma of doubtful veracity . |
| 6 | The laws of mikva have been passed down from mother to daughter in a continuous chain from biblical times . |
| 7 | As her bobbin shot back and forward between the wools , she sang the old Gaelic songs that had been passed down from mother to daughter for centuries . |
| 8 | Skills that are passed on from mother to daughter . |
| 9 | The idea that acquired characteristics or congenital injuries ( or calluses on the knees of camels , for example ) are passed on from father to offspring , was once taught by the Lamarckian school and is now discredited . |
| 10 | Another is that as gooseberry growing is one of those traditions which are passed down from generation to generation , and fathers were still able to pass their bushes on to their sons . |
| 11 | Their status was hereditary , land and titles being passed on from father to son . |
| 12 | We want to see wealth and security being passed down from generation to generation . |
| 13 | This means that harem females are being passed down from father to son in a patrilineal fashion . |
| 14 | The report on the experience of the Birmingham Money Advice Centre ( Appendix III ) describes how the weekly credit caller can become deeply ingrained in a poorer family 's circumstances , perhaps even being passed down from mother to daughter . |
| 15 | The Row was a highly-traditional society where the skills of the trade were passed on from generation to generation . |
| 16 | So stable were these chemical compounds that they were passed on from prey to predator by their accumulation in fatty tissue , involving a metabolic process which led to higher concentrations as the insecticide was passed along the chain . |
| 17 | Thereafter , the fieldworkers were passed on from person to person within the communities ; thus , the informant groups were self-recruited in that the speakers were not known to the investigators beforehand . |
| 18 | By exaggerating these postures the differences were obvious but as the paddle strokes were passed on from instructor to instructor the artificial distortions were slowly adopted into reality . |
| 19 | ‘ Arts ’ , or crafts , relied on practice ; and these traditional activities were passed on from father to son , or at least master to apprentice , as Faraday learned bookbinding , and as Davy had begun to learn medicine . |
| 20 | The specific components of chromosomes in turn are called genes , that familiar word describing how detailed information about the whole organism is passed on from generation to generation . |
| 21 | It is passed on from generation to generation in a chain , and is very difficult to break . |
| 22 | This is one of the methods by which the history of the people is passed on from generation to generation . |
| 23 | In fact , the problem seems to be determined genetically , which means that the tendency to hyperkinesis is passed down from parent to child . |