Example sentences of "[vb pp] down from [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had spent thousands of years being handed down from nome to nome without ever saying a word or lighting a light . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | What do they say , those bloody know-alls whose wisdom is handed down from generation to generation ? |
| 5 | Dyeing is considered a science , whose secrets are handed down from generation to generation , and when the dyer is working , only other dyers may speak to him . |
| 6 | Some of these rules are concerned with the different components which go to make up a traditional story — the kind of story which is orally handed down from generation to generation . |
| 7 | TRADITION ( SOCIAL ) — refers to the values , standards , beliefs , sentiments and , in general , the ways of thinking in a social group , which have been handed down from generation to generation . |
| 8 | Songs and styles of singing are handed down from mother to daughter , unchanged over centuries or even millennia . |
| 9 | It was in fact , a closed shop , and those working practices and skills were handed down from mother to daughter . |
| 10 | The bone-setting power is often handed down from father to son . |
| 11 | The centuries ' old recipe has been handed down from father to son . |
| 12 | However , what is also handed down from father to son these days is the importance of seeking a higher-paid and higher-status job elsewhere as soon as possible . |
| 13 | This is a district where old crafts are handed down from father to son . |
| 14 | Money was handed down from father to son ; it lost its merit as a token of worth ; the idle and nasty could be a great deal more rich than the hardworking and good . |
| 15 | A child , named Lewis after his father , was born to Goram and his wife 18 months ago , and added another stabilising dimension to the life of a player now consumed by the need to make the most of the gifts that were handed down from father to son . |
| 16 | They were closed down from time to time and checked the day prior to our morning operation . |
| 17 | The look on the devil-man 's face was a foolish , exaggerated astonishment , like the face he wore when Lucifer was cast down from Heaven to Hell against all his expectations . |
| 18 | We want to see wealth and security being passed down from generation to generation . |
| 19 | Folklore has been passed down from generation to generation , some of it full of deep and obvious truth , some mere dogma of doubtful veracity . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | These massive constructions of bamboo and paper , often passed down from year to year and re-covered for the next May festival by a new team , were far beyond the capacity of any individual flyer . |
| 22 | In fact , the problem seems to be determined genetically , which means that the tendency to hyperkinesis is passed down from parent to child . |
| 23 | This means that harem females are being passed down from father to son in a patrilineal fashion . |
| 24 | Swords are often passed down from father to son , and may be extremely ancient family heirlooms that have drawn blood in thousands of battles . |
| 25 | They were easily built and repaired using tools and skills often passed down from father to son . |
| 26 | The laws of mikva have been passed down from mother to daughter in a continuous chain from biblical times . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |