Example sentences of "[vb pp] on from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Gavin Scott has now moved on from science to other things ( he is reading the news on TV-am 's Good Morning Britain ) , so we shall not , presumably , see the further development of his short career in science . |
2 | He was , was he just moved on from time to time , or were they voluntary moves ? |
3 | Confidence was handed on from patient to patient . ’ |
4 | It remains a secret , though it is said to be passed on from chairman to chairman in a discreet whisper . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | It is passed on from generation to generation in a chain , and is very difficult to break . |
8 | Sometimes a trait gets passed on from generation to generation , and sometimes it can be missed out altogether . |
9 | But psychological violence stays with you , it festers , it can be passed on from generation to generation . ’ |
10 | This is one of the methods by which the history of the people is passed on from generation to generation . |
11 | The Row was a highly-traditional society where the skills of the trade were passed on from generation to generation . |
12 | So this is how one chance question at evening classes gets passed on from machine to machine . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Skills that are passed on from mother to daughter . |
17 | Their status was hereditary , land and titles being passed on from father to son . |
18 | ‘ 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | That added to the bitterness which has lived on from generation to generation . |