Example sentences of "pass [adv] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , enzyme defects are inherited — passed on from parents to children in the form of an abnormal gene . |
| 2 | It is an oral history , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 3 | For hundreds and indeed thousands of years , this knowledge has only been intuitive , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 4 | CUSTOM — A well-established , traditional mode of socially relevant behaviour passed on from generation to generation that prescribes the proper ways of behaving in given situations or under given conditions . |
| 5 | The agronomists ’ reports on the spring-sowing campaign reveal a long list of mainly unfulfilled bureaucratic resolutions passed down from Moscow . |
| 6 | What I knew about the Legion was based on a series of rumours and pieces of misinformation passed down from recruit to recruit . |
| 7 | He is armed with the Sword of Justice , an ancient weapon passed down from Champion to Champion through the reigns of successive Emperors . |
| 8 | Rejecting Galen 's theory , that blood passes directly from right to left ventricle , he proposed a vital role for the lungs , where a vital spirit emerged from the mixture of air and blood . |
| 9 | It needs a firm beginning , a detailed and carefully prepared centre that passes logically from item to item , and an ending that rounds it off . |
| 10 | He was alderman from 1542 and lord mayor in 1552–3 , when the Crown passed precariously from Edward VI to Mary . |
| 11 | And so they passed imperceptibly from phrases such as ‘ the author 's intention is clearly ’ to ‘ the text clearly says ’ , and then to ‘ the reader clearly infers ’ . |
| 12 | High up on the other side of the square is a sign on which words pass rapidly from right to left across a bank of lights . |
| 13 | The snake caught him again savagely round the legs with its jaws , but he managed to tear himself away and keep running until he finally passed out from shock and blood-loss . |
| 14 | ‘ The teachers do n't teach , the priests do n't bother , and they 're releasing all the lunatics into the community so they do n't get looked after and they 'll either pass out from exposure or starvation or kill people because they 're mad , and then they 'll be slung into prison to add to the overcrowding , and all in all it does n't make a lot of sense . |
| 15 | First , the agreement that risk should pass independently from property was not express but inferred by the court from the circumstances of the case . |
| 16 | It remains a secret , though it is said to be passed on from chairman to chairman in a discreet whisper . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Genetics deals with how genes are passed on from parents to their offspring and a great deal is known about the mechanisms governing this process . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is passed on from generation to generation in a chain , and is very difficult to break . |
| 21 | Sometimes a trait gets passed on from generation to generation , and sometimes it can be missed out altogether . |
| 22 | But psychological violence stays with you , it festers , it can be passed on from generation to generation . ’ |
| 23 | This is one of the methods by which the history of the people is passed on from generation to generation . |
| 24 | The Row was a highly-traditional society where the skills of the trade were passed on from generation to generation . |
| 25 | So this is how one chance question at evening classes gets passed on from machine to machine . |
| 26 | after an anonymous telephone call that had been passed on from Scotland Yard . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Skills that are passed on from mother to daughter . |