Example sentences of "were [vb pp] on from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Row was a highly-traditional society where the skills of the trade were passed on from generation to generation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Arts ’ , or crafts , relied on practice ; and these traditional activities were passed on from father to son , or at least master to apprentice , as Faraday learned bookbinding , and as Davy had begun to learn medicine . |