Example sentences of "[noun] [be] passed from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As a biologist , my main interest has for some years been human genetics , the study of the way in which various characteristics are passed from parent to offspring . |
| 2 | According to whale scientist Dr Roger Payne , the toxins are passed from generation to generation through the mother 's milk , with the toxin concentration increasing with each successive generation , eventually threatening the species with extinction . |
| 3 | Each time credit is passed from rule to rule , the rule which passes it keeps back a little for itself . |
| 4 | At two Mina was passed from father to husband . |
| 5 | Stigma is attached to AIDS because of strong social disapproval of the ‘ risk activities ’ by which HIV is passed from person to person and because of ignorance and fear . |
| 6 | Each time a bucket is passed from hand to hand , a little water is spilt . |
| 7 | Nina was passed from person to person . |
| 8 | As the story was passed from lip to lip , the level of destruction became greater and greater , as did the area of the land destroyed . |
| 9 | Once the funeral was over and they were back in the parlour of the cosy farmhouse , the atmosphere lightened and Victoria was passed from group to group , chattering like an enchanting little doll . |
| 10 | Diseased organs are passed from doctor to doctor on plastic lunch trays . |
| 11 | Manuscripts of his treatise The Ladder of Perfection were passed from monastery to monastery and were soon found as far afield as southern France . |
| 12 | Dr Julian Hopkin says that although the altered gene is passed from generation to generation by both sexes , the mother appears to be the final passage for the development of the illness . |