Example sentences of "from generation to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Even the duck used for Tai Bai Duck ( a dish handed down from generation to generation and named after the Tang dynasty poet Li Tai Bai ) despite being supplied by Cherry Valley , is , promises Jermey , authentic , because the company supplied much of China 's duck breeding stock . |
2 | He was aware that famous players of those roles had developed their own ways of interpretation and tricks , which were then handed down from generation to generation . |
3 | Before we leave this topic , with some doubtless well-received witticisms about the American ateliers that are called Schools of Creative Writing , let us ask ourselves how an artistic tradition is transmitted from generation to generation in England , if it is not transmitted in the way that Pound took for granted . |
4 | Culture may be defined as those ideas , traditions , points of view and modes of behaviour which exist amongst a particular people , and which are transmitted , through learned behaviour , from generation to generation . |
5 | They drag on from generation to generation and emigration to Britain makes very little difference . |
6 | At that time , thanks in particular to the work of Morgan and his colleagues on Drosophila , we had an abstract model of how genes are arranged on chromosomes , and of how they are transmitted from generation to generation , but we did not understand the chemistry of genes , or their replication , or their role in protein synthesis . |
7 | And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation . |
8 | That added to the bitterness which has lived on from generation to generation . |
9 | We want to see wealth and security being passed down from generation to generation . |
10 | The study of interactions and relationships that constitute the social structure of these various rearing units has begun to provide a description of the rules whereby the structure is maintained from generation to generation . |
11 | Folklore has been passed down from generation to generation , some of it full of deep and obvious truth , some mere dogma of doubtful veracity . |
12 | Joseph had mused : ‘ perhaps there is at work here a process , apparent in many situations but imperfectly understood , by which problems reproduced themselves from generation to generation ’ ( Joseph , 1972 ) . |
13 | It is an oral history , passed on from generation to generation . |
14 | Older people have absorbed these attitudes which they once held as young people , and lead their lives in ways which confirm the stereotyped images , and perpetuate the myths of ageism from generation to generation . |
15 | How is the knowledge transmitted from generation to generation ? |
16 | There were unpaid , unqualified ‘ nurses ‘ , usually senior ladies of the dale who possessed all the medical folklore and herbal remedies handed down from generation to generation . |
17 | Mr Engel is a journalist of rare erudition and humour , and cricket is a pastime and an art form which has won the devotion of a vast public , including great men of many sorts from generation to generation . |
18 | In a free society , the regulation of such material is always problematic , with social mores shifting from generation to generation — and not always in the same direction . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | These will differ from generation to generation and from temperament to temperament , but it is wise to know the types of doubt to which we are most prone . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | It also masks the fact that Anglo-Saxon ‘ villages ’ probably moved about in roughly the same area from generation to generation . |
23 | Shipbuilding skills have been handed down from generation to generation and now these proud men who helped to put the ‘ Great ’ into Britain are tossed aside because the Government does n't know how to get out of the hole it has dug . |
24 | It is passed on from generation to generation in a chain , and is very difficult to break . |
25 | During the journey , the Chaplain had already inducted the Necromundan boys into proper worship , with a strong emphasis on adoration of Rogal Dorn , whose own gene-seeds — bred on from generation to generation of Imperial Fists within their implanted progenoid glands — would kindle the neophyte cadets into Marines , true Marines of the chapter . |
26 | ‘ Your new organs and glands have only one ultimate source — namely the gene-seed of the godly Rogal Dorn enshrined from generation to generation within the temples of our bodies . |
27 | Sometimes a trait gets passed on from generation to generation , and sometimes it can be missed out altogether . |
28 | Although the detailed patterns change from generation to generation — as both C clusters and D clusters expand , collide , and fragment — the asymptotic overall fraction of sites occupied by C , f C , fluctuates around 0.318 for almost all starting proportions and configurations . |
29 | For our purposes , culture is simply a convenient term to describe the sum of learned knowledge and skills — including religion and language — that distinguishes one community from another and which , subject to the vagaries of innovation and change , passes on in a recognizable form from generation to generation . |
30 | ‘ The idea was to pass on the information from generation to generation , so children traditionally played a very important part , ’ said a spokeswoman for the Open Spaces Society . |