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

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1 Staff at Slimbridge say their 7,000 waterfowl are unlikely to be affected by the outbreak , which ca n't be passed on from bird to bird .
2 So this is how one chance question at evening classes gets passed on from machine to machine .
3 Perhaps we should think about it , instead of drifting on from day to day .
4 In these last years of the war , he was simply continuing with his life , going on from day to day without much hope for the future .
5 She had not liked him very much but she judged him to be one of those unfortunate men who dislike their neighbours even more than they dislike themselves and as such he was to be pitied , plodding on from day to day among his bingo-playing telly-watching parishioners .
6 It remains a secret , though it is said to be passed on from chairman to chairman in a discreet whisper .
7 Confidence was handed on from patient to patient . ’
8 One view is that , even though the current physical self will perish , the spirit goes on from life to life ; if this is the case , one of the things that spirit has to learn is how to deal with all areas of negativity. 1 believe that , by the time the spirit enters the body , it has already chosen the lessons it wishes to learn and the difficulties it wishes to overcome during that lifetime .
9 Vincent would move on from evangelist to artist , and the great Russian , determined to live a life modelled on Christ , was beginning to regard all art as frivolous .
10 The account goes on from year to year , for as long as you want .
11 That may change and as we move out of the recession hopefully , er the er erm position will improve , but it does mean that for next year we are not in a position to er achieve the level of income that the , the current year 's budget er required us to and which er on a normal knock-on basis as this element of the budget moves on from year to year , we would n't er have very much hope I would er put to you of actually meeting the level of income that would allow us to operate er a standstill budget in , in this area .
12 Oh you can go on from year to year ?
13 Thereafter , the fieldworkers were passed on from person to person within the communities ; thus , the informant groups were self-recruited in that the speakers were not known to the investigators beforehand .
14 So stable were these chemical compounds that they were passed on from prey to predator by their accumulation in fatty tissue , involving a metabolic process which led to higher concentrations as the insecticide was passed along the chain .
15 They drag on from generation to generation and emigration to Britain makes very little difference .
16 That added to the bitterness which has lived on from generation to generation .
17 It is an oral history , passed on from generation to generation .
18 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 .
19 It is passed on from generation to generation in a chain , and is very difficult to break .
20 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 .
21 Sometimes a trait gets passed on from generation to generation , and sometimes it can be missed out altogether .
22 But psychological violence stays with you , it festers , it can be passed on from generation to generation . ’
23 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 .
24 This is one of the methods by which the history of the people is passed on from generation to generation .
25 For hundreds and indeed thousands of years , this knowledge has only been intuitive , passed on from generation to generation .
26 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 .
27 The Row was a highly-traditional society where the skills of the trade were passed on from generation to generation .
28 Gavin Scott has now moved on from science to other things ( he is reading the news on TV-am 's Good Morning Britain ) , so we shall not , presumably , see the further development of his short career in science .
29 The idea that acquired characteristics or congenital injuries ( or calluses on the knees of camels , for example ) are passed on from father to offspring , was once taught by the Lamarckian school and is now discredited .
30 Their status was hereditary , land and titles being passed on from father to son .
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