Example sentences of "[vb pp] on from [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Double Silk , owned and still ridden at home by retired , 66-year-old farmer Reg Wilkins , was plunged on from 7–2 to 5–2 favourite .
2 Left : Fish of this size and quality were all grown on from 4–6 inch youngsters in only a year .
3 Not s in a sense just by individual feudal landlords , but by landlords saying well I 'm , I 'm not really feudal anyway , that I 've moved on from that , I am a commercial landlord rather than a feudal landlord .
4 Once more it was the terms used by people such as the Iroquois , who were believed to have moved on from this stage , who provided the evidence for its previous existence .
5 Generalizing a little , we might plot the stress trajectories , that is the direction in which the stress is handed on from one atomic bond to the next , very much as in Figure 2 of this chapter .
6 It seems probable that all tools were handed on from one generation to the next ; their frequency in Kent may reflect a greater overall wealth and the ability to dispose of such items as grave-goods .
7 Mistakes and ignorance can be handed on from one generation to another , habit can blind , and tradition can bind .
8 Now 22 , Debbie 's guitar collection has progressed on from that all-important first guitar .
9 ‘ We 've now had two further years when we do n't seem to have gone on from that .
10 They are part of the culture of society and are passed on from one generation to the next .
11 All the complex information which is passed on from one generation to the next is coded using specific arrangements of just four molecules !
12 For Dr Eugene Nida ‘ culture ’ is ‘ all nonmaterial traits which are passed on from one generation to another .
13 The distinctive property of cultural behaviour , as ethologists use the term , is the way it is passed on from one generation to the next .
14 Darwinian , genetical evolution takes place because genes are passed on from one generation to the next , and if some genes build better bodies than others , they are favoured by natural selection , become commoner , and evolutionary change will take place .
15 Genes are , essentially , segments of DNA Deoxyribonucleic Acid , a complex chemical compound constituting the basis material of the chromosomes through which the individual traits of an organism are passed on from one generation to the next .
16 In essence , culture is a distinctive way of life of a people , not biologically transmitted but learned behaviour that is passed on from one generation to the next , evolving and changing over time .
17 It 's a sort of passed on from one generation to the next and it is you know , you will see people , hear people talking about it as if it was yesterday .
18 Tuberculosis spreads easily and it is often passed on from older members of the family to the children .
19 The bid approved by the county 's police committee is for 18 extra constables and two more sergeants to be taken on from 1993 .
20 The proposal approved by the county 's police committee is for 18 extra constables and two more sergeants to be taken on from 1993 .
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