Example sentences of "passed from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So glorious and yet so very real that if we by faith , and if we have by faith looked to Jesus Christ dying on the cross for us and received him , now , not there of course , but risen , and ascended , and glorified is promising that we ha will pass , or we have passed from death unto life . |
| 32 | The Marquess of Salisbury had become Prime Minister in 1895 , and in 1889 his government introduced death duties which were to lead to the gradual breaking up of the wealthy estates , which previously had passed from father to son — or some other relative — without any loss . |
| 33 | For example , one sage quoted by Bodine railed against the custom of saying that X and Y were married , or worse , that Mr X was married to Miss Y. Propriety would be better served , he pointed out , if this fact were always expressed in terms of the woman being married to the man , since it is the woman who is passed from father to husband and loses her identity . |
| 34 | Like other trades and ‘ mysteries ’ , chemical or pharmaceutical knowledge was to be passed from father to son , or master to apprentice , or wise woman to her daughter , and not broadcast to the world . |
| 35 | Women were still seen as a valuable commodity , to be passed from father to husband , and at the accession of James I , any property a woman might hold would immediately become her husbands on marriage . |
| 36 | At two Mina was passed from father to husband . |
| 37 | Some of the features of a status society , such as peerages , can be passed from father to son : the inheritance is founded in law . |
| 38 | and one boy chose to write about plumbing and do you know , he found that there was nothing written down about plumbing in the early nineteen seventies there were one or two plumbing text books , they were very expensive and you could only get them through The Institute of Plumbers plumbing is something that until about nineteen seventy five was passed from father to son or uncle to nephew it was a sort of secret craft you know , you can |
| 39 | The patronage of the living and estates passed from Robert de Percy to Whitby Abbey , then through the years to several different families , eventually being sold in 1947 to the Crown estates who are still the owners . |
| 40 | Well could you , could you expand on that , cos you 're not saying that they , it 's actually passed from people 's D N A ? |
| 41 | The overall law of this country is laid down and maintained by Parliament by means of Acts which are passed from time to time . |
| 42 | My story was that I was the orphaned son of my father 's long-lost younger brother , and only staying on occasional extended holidays on the island while I was passed from relative to relative and my future was decided . |
| 43 | Unfortunately his paintings passed from fashion and the public eye and much has been lost and awaits discovery . |
| 44 | Then , on D'Arcy 's insistence , he was passed from extension to extension . |
| 45 | Manuscripts of his treatise The Ladder of Perfection were passed from monastery to monastery and were soon found as far afield as southern France . |
| 46 | Once she 'd got known for being presentable , turning up sober and on time , not leaving early with the spoons and able to tell left hand from right , word got round and she 'd been passed from college to college by grateful manciples . |
| 47 | The plates have a long and illustrious history , being passed from print dealer to dealer and were at various times published by Watelet , Basan and Jean . |
| 48 | And there was a ripple of laughter that grew to a delighted roar as the words Great Missin 'em time passed from mouth to mouth . |
| 49 | Since that distant time the Runefangs have served the counts of the Empire , having passed from ruler to ruler until the present day . |
| 50 | This did not mean the end of large-scale sheep-farming , which was still the basis of large fortunes in the nineteenth century : migrant merino flocks still passed from summer pastures in the Sierras along the sheep roads to Estremadura and the south ; but with the destruction of animal stock in the War of Independence , the disruption of the sheep routes , and the general decline of wool the great transhumant flocks persisted only in those regions where no other method of feeding was possible — in the more remote parts of the bleak province of Soria for example . |
| 51 | Each time credit is passed from rule to rule , the rule which passes it keeps back a little for itself . |
| 52 | She felt that all compassion must have passed from Emilia with the emptying of her womb except for this last residue that smouldered in the promise she exacted now . |
| 53 | What we see is a little temple-state , the economic and social structures of which had been shattered by the recent wars between Antiochus III and Ptolemy V. Palestine had passed from Egyptian to Syrian control . |
| 54 | Talk in the Red Lion became increasingly spirited as the season wore on , and the rumours passed from farm cottage to town hovel . |
| 55 | Over the centuries the title of Count has passed from family to family as old dynasties withered away , intermarried or perished in battle . |
| 56 | Suddenly everyone was talking about One Flew Over The Cuckoo 's Nest and a copy passed from hand to hand . |
| 57 | She was passed from hand to hand . |
| 58 | There was scarcely a divinity student in Cambridge , says a contemporary , who ‘ made not himself a disciple of Mr Andrewes by resorting to his lectures and transcribing his notes , and ever since they have in many hundreds of copies passed from hand to hand and have been esteemed a very library to young divines ’ . |
| 59 | Champagne corks popped inside the East Ham home and there was a special chocolate pudding for Farrah , who was passed from hand to hand . |
| 60 | Each time a bucket is passed from hand to hand , a little water is spilt . |