Example sentences of "passed from [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 In the Middle Ages a stream of inventions , such as gunpowder , paper , and the mariner 's compass , passed from China to Europe .
2 The major burden would be the cost of dealing with unexploded shells and bombs on former military ranges , many of which had passed from Pentagon control to that of the BLM .
3 The rotating chairmanship of EFTA 's governing body , the Council , passed from Sweden ( January-June 1990 ) to Switzerland ( July-December 1990 ) , to Austria ( January-June 1991 ) and then to Finland ( from July 1991 ) .
4 But long before the appearance of the ESA , European leadership in space had passed from Britain to France .
5 Only the truth had passed from Timothy Gedge , the unarguable strength of it , the power and the glory of it .
6 Operation of the network is being passed from PTT Telecom to its Unisource Business Networks joint venture , which will run it from its International Network Management Centre in The Hague .
7 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 .
8 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 .
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