Example sentences of "been [vb pp] down from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Invisible earnings for the month are projected to have been £100million , while their contribution in October has been revised down from £300million to the same level . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The centuries ' old recipe has been handed down from father to son . |
| 5 | Folklore has been passed down from generation to generation , some of it full of deep and obvious truth , some mere dogma of doubtful veracity . |
| 6 | The laws of mikva have been passed down from mother to daughter in a continuous chain from biblical times . |
| 7 | As her bobbin shot back and forward between the wools , she sang the old Gaelic songs that had been passed down from mother to daughter for centuries . |