Example sentences of "[verb] on from [noun sg] to generation " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an oral history , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 2 | For hundreds and indeed thousands of years , this knowledge has only been intuitive , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 3 | CUSTOM — A well-established , traditional mode of socially relevant behaviour passed on from generation to generation that prescribes the proper ways of behaving in given situations or under given conditions . |
| 4 | They drag on from generation to generation and emigration to Britain makes very little difference . |
| 5 | During the journey , the Chaplain had already inducted the Necromundan boys into proper worship , with a strong emphasis on adoration of Rogal Dorn , whose own gene-seeds — bred on from generation to generation of Imperial Fists within their implanted progenoid glands — would kindle the neophyte cadets into Marines , true Marines of the chapter . |
| 6 | The ie was more than a group of individuals ; it was a continuing entity carrying on from generation to generation embracing people , property and reputation . |
| 7 | The specific components of chromosomes in turn are called genes , that familiar word describing how detailed information about the whole organism is passed on from generation to generation . |
| 8 | It is passed on from generation to generation in a chain , and is very difficult to break . |
| 9 | Sometimes a trait gets passed on from generation to generation , and sometimes it can be missed out altogether . |
| 10 | But psychological violence stays with you , it festers , it can be passed on from generation to generation . ’ |
| 11 | This is one of the methods by which the history of the people is passed on from generation to generation . |
| 12 | The Row was a highly-traditional society where the skills of the trade were passed on from generation to generation . |
| 13 | That added to the bitterness which has lived on from generation to generation . |