Example sentences of "be passed from one [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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1 | " 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 . |
2 | Any information on parents should not be passed from one school to another . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Any sex which does not allow infected blood , semen or vaginal fluids to be passed from one partner to the other is safer sex . |
6 | Much emphasis is placed on the ease with which data can be passed from one program to another , information from the customer data base can be used to update a spreadsheet model for instance . |
7 | Generally they are passed from one generation to another . |
8 | Such tastes are passed from one generation to the other , reinforced by the environment in which a family exists . |
9 | The delay time is governed by two factors , which are the number of stages in the circuit , and the speed at which the samples are passed from one stage to the next . |
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 | Though the system is quite helpful to divorcees , it does involve the assumption that women are a piece of property being passed from one man to another ! |
12 | However , in the process of being passed from one office to another Joyce was making contacts who might prove of some use . |
13 | In all communities , but most particularly in the poorer inner-city areas ( largely as a consequence of the denser , more multiplex structure of local networks ) they were passed from one family to another , being received with warmth , friendliness and trust . |
14 | Messages were passed from one cell to another by chemical messengers , and many drugs imitated , obstructed , or prolonged the activity of the messengers . |
15 | During conjugation , DNA is passed from one bacterium to another ; this DNA may be the plasmid which caused the conjugation , or the bacterial chromosome itself , or both . |
16 | Norman Baillie-Stewart had suffered three years of bureaucratic delay while his application was passed from one office to another and back again . |
17 | Their firm had been given short shrift and was passed from one office to the next . |