Example sentences of "[vb pp] on from [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems probable that all tools were handed on from one generation to the next ; their frequency in Kent may reflect a greater overall wealth and the ability to dispose of such items as grave-goods . |
| 2 | Mistakes and ignorance can be handed on from one generation to another , habit can blind , and tradition can bind . |
| 3 | They are part of the culture of society and are passed on from one generation to the next . |
| 4 | All the complex information which is passed on from one generation to the next is coded using specific arrangements of just four molecules ! |
| 5 | For Dr Eugene Nida ‘ culture ’ is ‘ all nonmaterial traits which are passed on from one generation to another . |
| 6 | The distinctive property of cultural behaviour , as ethologists use the term , is the way it is passed on from one generation to the next . |
| 7 | Darwinian , genetical evolution takes place because genes are passed on from one generation to the next , and if some genes build better bodies than others , they are favoured by natural selection , become commoner , and evolutionary change will take place . |
| 8 | Genes are , essentially , segments of DNA Deoxyribonucleic Acid , a complex chemical compound constituting the basis material of the chromosomes through which the individual traits of an organism are passed on from one generation to the next . |
| 9 | In essence , culture is a distinctive way of life of a people , not biologically transmitted but learned behaviour that is passed on from one generation to the next , evolving and changing over time . |
| 10 | It 's a sort of passed on from one generation to the next and it is you know , you will see people , hear people talking about it as if it was yesterday . |