Example sentences of "passed on [prep] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It remains a secret , though it is said to be passed on from chairman to chairman in a discreet whisper . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is passed on from generation to generation in a chain , and is very difficult to break . |
| 5 | Sometimes a trait gets passed on from generation to generation , and sometimes it can be missed out altogether . |
| 6 | But psychological violence stays with you , it festers , it can be passed on from generation to generation . ’ |
| 7 | This is one of the methods by which the history of the people is passed on from generation to generation . |
| 8 | The Row was a highly-traditional society where the skills of the trade were passed on from generation to generation . |
| 9 | So this is how one chance question at evening classes gets passed on from machine to machine . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Skills that are passed on from mother to daughter . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Their status was hereditary , land and titles being passed on from father to son . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He could also play a variety of instruments ( and passed on this ability to his children ) and knew songs and melodies which had never been written down — just passed on from ear to ear via generations of Dalesmen . |