Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] from [noun sg] to generation " in BNC.
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1 | He was aware that famous players of those roles had developed their own ways of interpretation and tricks , which were then handed down from generation to generation . |
2 | Shipbuilding skills have been handed down from generation to generation and now these proud men who helped to put the ‘ Great ’ into Britain are tossed aside because the Government does n't know how to get out of the hole it has dug . |
3 | What do they say , those bloody know-alls whose wisdom is handed down from generation to generation ? |
4 | Dyeing is considered a science , whose secrets are handed down from generation to generation , and when the dyer is working , only other dyers may speak to him . |
5 | Some of these rules are concerned with the different components which go to make up a traditional story — the kind of story which is orally handed down from generation to generation . |
6 | TRADITION ( SOCIAL ) — refers to the values , standards , beliefs , sentiments and , in general , the ways of thinking in a social group , which have been handed down from generation to generation . |
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 | We want to see wealth and security being passed down from generation to generation . |
14 | Folklore has been passed down from generation to generation , some of it full of deep and obvious truth , some mere dogma of doubtful veracity . |
15 | Another is that as gooseberry growing is one of those traditions which are passed down from generation to generation , and fathers were still able to pass their bushes on to their sons . |
16 | That added to the bitterness which has lived on from generation to generation . |