Example sentences of "passed from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A letter had arrived from Asba Tafari addressed to the head of my escort ; it had been passed from chief to chief . |
| 2 | Four years had elapsed since that splendid wedding but somehow although she herself had passed from childhood to early womanhood , Anne had still pictured Richard as he had been then . |
| 3 | According to whale scientist Dr Roger Payne , the toxins are passed from generation to generation through the mother 's milk , with the toxin concentration increasing with each successive generation , eventually threatening the species with extinction . |
| 4 | They 're living proof that asthma can be passed from generation to generation . |
| 5 | Dr Julian Hopkin says that although the altered gene is passed from generation to generation by both sexes , the mother appears to be the final passage for the development of the illness . |
| 6 | ‘ As a biologist , my main interest has for some years been human genetics , the study of the way in which various characteristics are passed from parent to offspring . |
| 7 | The hydra 's psychic spores would remain dormant in human brains for untold generations , passed from parent to child . |
| 8 | Among the habits and values passed from parent to child are political ones . |
| 9 | It is a role passed from character to character , each of whom makes different use of it . |
| 10 | George 's wits began to return and he realised that he would have soon passed from sleep to death , if Elizabeth had not found him . |
| 11 | James Hamilton had passed from aggressiveness to fuddled good nature , calling everyone his best friend , pressing more drinks upon them . |
| 12 | As the story was passed from lip to lip , the level of destruction became greater and greater , as did the area of the land destroyed . |
| 13 | Yu was a new recruitment campaign ; a rallying call ; a word passed from lip to ear ; a look , perhaps , between two sympathetic to the cause . |
| 14 | Indeed , they are keen to advertise the fact by stamping their personalities on their home , something which is evidenced by looking at homes in Britain which have passed from public to private ownership . |
| 15 | Perhaps people can only address the meeting when they hold a certain talisman ( which is passed from speaker to speaker ) . |
| 16 | Nina was passed from person to person . |
| 17 | A little scared , very curious , ravenously hungry and ready to argue the toss with anyone after being passed from person to person like so many yards of parcelled muslin . |
| 18 | HIV is not easily passed from person to person . |
| 19 | Stigma is attached to AIDS because of strong social disapproval of the ‘ risk activities ’ by which HIV is passed from person to person and because of ignorance and fear . |
| 20 | Once the funeral was over and they were back in the parlour of the cosy farmhouse , the atmosphere lightened and Victoria was passed from group to group , chattering like an enchanting little doll . |
| 21 | A drink was thrust into her hand and within five minutes she was being passed from group to group as though she were the prize exhibit ; asked numerous questions she did n't know how to or have time to answer ; told endless tales of this person or that person ; until eventually , somewhat bewildered , she ended up in the bar with someone called Patrick who began regaling her with tales of old Ireland . |
| 22 | We know that we have passed from death to life because we love brother Christians ’ ( 3:13f ) . |
| 23 | Christ borne that judgement for us and we have passed from death into life life ! |
| 24 | So glorious and yet so very real that if we by faith , and if we have by faith looked to Jesus Christ dying on the cross for us and received him , now , not there of course , but risen , and ascended , and glorified is promising that we ha will pass , or we have passed from death unto life . |
| 25 | The Marquess of Salisbury had become Prime Minister in 1895 , and in 1889 his government introduced death duties which were to lead to the gradual breaking up of the wealthy estates , which previously had passed from father to son — or some other relative — without any loss . |
| 26 | For example , one sage quoted by Bodine railed against the custom of saying that X and Y were married , or worse , that Mr X was married to Miss Y. Propriety would be better served , he pointed out , if this fact were always expressed in terms of the woman being married to the man , since it is the woman who is passed from father to husband and loses her identity . |
| 27 | Like other trades and ‘ mysteries ’ , chemical or pharmaceutical knowledge was to be passed from father to son , or master to apprentice , or wise woman to her daughter , and not broadcast to the world . |
| 28 | Women were still seen as a valuable commodity , to be passed from father to husband , and at the accession of James I , any property a woman might hold would immediately become her husbands on marriage . |
| 29 | At two Mina was passed from father to husband . |
| 30 | Some of the features of a status society , such as peerages , can be passed from father to son : the inheritance is founded in law . |