Example sentences of "[vb pp] from generation to [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ Your new organs and glands have only one ultimate source — namely the gene-seed of the godly Rogal Dorn enshrined from generation to generation within the temples of our bodies . |
| 8 | According to whale scientist Dr Roger Payne , the toxins are passed from generation to generation through the mother 's milk , with the toxin concentration increasing with each successive generation , eventually threatening the species with extinction . |
| 9 | They 're living proof that asthma can be passed from generation to generation . |
| 10 | Dr Julian Hopkin says that although the altered gene is passed from generation to generation by both sexes , the mother appears to be the final passage for the development of the illness . |
| 11 | The study of interactions and relationships that constitute the social structure of these various rearing units has begun to provide a description of the rules whereby the structure is maintained from generation to generation . |