Example sentences of "have been handed [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The self-destructive streak in Scottish football is a legacy that has been handed down from Hughie Gallacher in the '20s to Mo Johnston in the present day , but it finds its most bloated expression in Slim Jim , a player whose massive reputation was built on his slender athletic frame but whose downfall has been a rake 's progress of late nights , seedy bars and relentless beer bellies . |
| 2 | The centuries ' old recipe has been handed down from father to son . |
| 3 | The word had been handed down from the so-called serial killer , Alan Yentob , the newly-appointed BBC1 controller . |
| 4 | The clock and barometer have been handed on from Kevin 's father 's yacht |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Now , although St Petersburg is full of some of the greatest treasures of the world , full of riches that have been handed down from the imperial days , there is very little about the tsar and his family at the time of the revolution . |
| 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 . |