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 . |