Example sentences of "transmitted from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Before we leave this topic , with some doubtless well-received witticisms about the American ateliers that are called Schools of Creative Writing , let us ask ourselves how an artistic tradition is transmitted from generation to generation in England , if it is not transmitted in the way that Pound took for granted .
2 At that time , thanks in particular to the work of Morgan and his colleagues on Drosophila , we had an abstract model of how genes are arranged on chromosomes , and of how they are transmitted from generation to generation , but we did not understand the chemistry of genes , or their replication , or their role in protein synthesis .
3 How is the knowledge transmitted from generation to generation ?
4 This attitude becomes part of their subculture and is transmitted from generation to generation .
5 They know the formulae , they have been transmitted from generation to generation down the years .
6 Culture , in the sense of " patterns of learned behaviour transmitted from generation to generation by learning rather than by genetic endowment " , is a characteristic of many other species besides man .
7 The organism can be transmitted from fowl to fowl in the egg of Heterakis and in earthworms containing hatched larvae of the worm .
8 Malaria is primarily a disease of the blood , and is transmitted from person to person by the bite of females of certain species of anopheline mosquitoes .
9 HIV is not easily transmitted from person to person except by ‘ high risk ’ activity .
10 It has been accidently transferred from animals to man and has been experimentally transmitted from man to calves and mice .
11 One becomes a member of a caste by being born into one of its lineages which are always transmitted from male to male .
12 If the ostriches were indeed infected with BSE by this route , it would be the first recorded case of the disease being transmitted from cattle to birds [ see Eds passim ] .
13 In part , these beliefs may be acquired through childhood ‘ socialisation ’ , being transmitted from parent to offspring .
14 Such groups may cohere together according to a wide variety of principles , e.g. by identification with a particular locality , a particular herd of livestock , a particular parcel of seed ( annually replaced ) , a particular lineage name transmitted from parent to child , and 50 on .
15 The liability of each person is assumed to be determined by the independent contribution of a major locus ( g ) ( a locus that causes a displacement of more than one phenotypic standard deviation between normal and abnormal genotypes on the liability scale ) ; a multifactorial component ( c ) , attributable in theory to a large number of genetic or environmental influences , or both , acting additively and transmitted from parents to their children ; and a random , non-transmitted environmental factor ( e ) .
16 Chomsky has claimed that the principles underlying the structure of language are so specific and so highly articulated that they must be regarded as being biologically determined ; that is , as constituting part of what we call " human nature " and as being genetically transmitted from parents to children .
17 The upthrust is transmitted from wing to coracoid and the whole body is raised .
18 When he has mastered this type of movement kneeling , more advanced work might involve sitting on his heels and then shifting his weight towards his hemiplegic side to practise controlling his arm and the side of his trunk while some of his bodyweight is transmitted from side to side .
19 Mathematical knowledge is transmitted from teacher to pupil ; telling , showing and explaining are the order of the day .
20 In many societies occupational status has been or still is transmitted from father to son and from mother to daughter .
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