Example sentences of "down from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He is armed with the Sword of Justice , an ancient weapon passed down from Champion to Champion through the reigns of successive Emperors .
2 It had spent thousands of years being handed down from nome to nome without ever saying a word or lighting a light .
3 What I knew about the Legion was based on a series of rumours and pieces of misinformation passed down from recruit to recruit .
4 Even the duck used for Tai Bai Duck ( a dish handed down from generation to generation and named after the Tang dynasty poet Li Tai Bai ) despite being supplied by Cherry Valley , is , promises Jermey , authentic , because the company supplied much of China 's duck breeding stock .
5 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 .
6 We want to see wealth and security being passed down from generation to generation .
7 Folklore has been passed down from generation to generation , some of it full of deep and obvious truth , some mere dogma of doubtful veracity .
8 There were unpaid , unqualified ‘ nurses ‘ , usually senior ladies of the dale who possessed all the medical folklore and herbal remedies handed down from generation to generation .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 What do they say , those bloody know-alls whose wisdom is handed down from generation to generation ?
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 It is not surprising that the skills of Chinese herbal medicine handed down from generation to generation are viewed with scepticism by many outsiders .
16 That 's right , a family thing , you hand it down from generation to generation
17 In fact , the problem seems to be determined genetically , which means that the tendency to hyperkinesis is passed down from parent to child .
18 These massive constructions of bamboo and paper , often passed down from year to year and re-covered for the next May festival by a new team , were far beyond the capacity of any individual flyer .
19 They scrape me down from head to foot — my torn clothes , my hands , my broken knees , the nose on my face .
20 They were closed down from time to time and checked the day prior to our morning operation .
21 We analysed these data ourselves , and found that many subject departments sent individuals or small groups to the library in connection with subject or project work , while others seem to have brought whole classes down from time to time .
22 The laws of mikva have been passed down from mother to daughter in a continuous chain from biblical times .
23 Songs and styles of singing are handed down from mother to daughter , unchanged over centuries or even millennia .
24 The report on the experience of the Birmingham Money Advice Centre ( Appendix III ) describes how the weekly credit caller can become deeply ingrained in a poorer family 's circumstances , perhaps even being passed down from mother to daughter .
25 It was in fact , a closed shop , and those working practices and skills were handed down from mother to daughter .
26 As her bobbin shot back and forward between the wools , she sang the old Gaelic songs that had been passed down from mother to daughter for centuries .
27 The bone-setting power is often handed down from father to son .
28 This means that harem females are being passed down from father to son in a patrilineal fashion .
29 The centuries ' old recipe has been handed down from father to son .
30 Swords are often passed down from father to son , and may be extremely ancient family heirlooms that have drawn blood in thousands of battles .
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