Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] generations " in BNC.
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| 1 | Political prejudices pass down the generations . |
| 2 | Dawkins ( 1976 , 1978 ) has argued strongly that considering the individual animal as the unit of selection is a form of shorthand for what is actually selected down the generations is the gene , or over short time spans , groups of associated genes . |
| 3 | Genes for failure to resist enslavement by cuckoos can easily be passed down the generations of robins or dunnocks . |
| 4 | Genes for failure to enslave foster-parents can not be passed down the generations of cuckoos . |
| 5 | A thirteenth-century man who was free to leave his own tithing ( or who absconded ) for a nearby town would not long be called Matthew atte Middele ( Matthew who lives in the middle of the village ) , or such , but rather Matthew Longback or Matthew of ( or from ) Thornbury , depending on which struck his new friends as the more appropriate , and the new identification may well have turned into a surname and passed down the generations . |
| 6 | The Japanese treat valuable fish much like Bonsai , handing them down the generations as living heirlooms . |
| 7 | Where an old person is still to be seen at the centre of a web of relationships that extend down the generations and through the individual members to the community beyond it can be quite startling how the pleasure derived from life remains undiminished despite quite severe physical and material handicaps . |
| 8 | Designed to ensure , in John Major 's words , that wealth will not ‘ cascade down the generations ’ , this tax system envisages that a wealthy family will hand over approximately 40% of its wealth each generation . |
| 9 | Examples made famous by the exploits of their chiefly owners acquired names of their own and passed down the generations as heirlooms . |
| 10 | Think of that story getting passed down the generations , each time they handed it on it became more colourful and exaggerated . |
| 11 | The ancestral crystal structure is preserved down the generations unless there is an occasional mistake in crystal growth , an occasional alteration in the pattern of laying down of atoms . |
| 12 | For 1,000 years the Venetian Republic stood in the forefront of naval power and development , and down the generations ships of every kind , warlike and peaceful , simple and grandiose , displayed themselves to the world in these waters . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's how the Pooleys have held on to it down the generations . |
| 14 | Bodies do n't get passed down the generations ; genes do . |