Example sentences of "[be] handed [adv] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The centuries ' old recipe has been handed down from father to son . |
| 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 | Songs and styles of singing are handed down from mother to daughter , unchanged over centuries or even millennia . |
| 6 | This is a district where old crafts are handed down from father to son . |
| 7 | It had spent thousands of years being handed down from nome to nome without ever saying a word or lighting a light . |
| 8 | A child , named Lewis after his father , was born to Goram and his wife 18 months ago , and added another stabilising dimension to the life of a player now consumed by the need to make the most of the gifts that were handed down from father to son . |
| 9 | It was in fact , a closed shop , and those working practices and skills were handed down from mother to daughter . |
| 10 | What do they say , those bloody know-alls whose wisdom is handed down from generation to generation ? |
| 11 | Confidence was handed on from patient to patient . ’ |
| 12 | Money was handed down from father to son ; it lost its merit as a token of worth ; the idle and nasty could be a great deal more rich than the hardworking and good . |