Example sentences of "on [prep] [art] [num ord] generation " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Hinrich and Senta Medau are no longer with us , their work and inspiration live on through the second generation , while in this country the Medau Society celebrates its 35th Anniversary in 1987 . |
| 2 | What specific advice would Pearce pass on to the next generation of senior executives ? |
| 3 | I would like to end with a plea to all those out there of similar mind to keep alive the trivial names , the odd stories , the quirky characters and the strange anecdotes , and to pass these on to the next generation with a simple message . |
| 4 | If we translate the colloquial meaning of ‘ nice guy ’ into its Darwinian equivalent , a nice guy is an individual that assists other members of its species , at its own expense , to pass their genes on to the next generation . |
| 5 | The generations of this century will , in their turn , hand on to the next generation the archaic unconscious problems , unless the guilt becomes too strong , the rebellion so great , the need to kill and be killed so overwhelming that we hand on nothing at all . |
| 6 | But to the Lamarckians it seemed much more natural to assume that the wasting away of an individual 's eyes when there was no light would be passed on to the next generation , resulting in a rapid loss of eyesight in the whole population . |
| 7 | Hence , governments interested in reducing these disparities have introduced various taxes on large wealth holders , directed in particular at reducing the extent to which large accumulations of wealth can be passed on to the next generation . |
| 8 | The particles themselves remain separate and discrete when it comes to being passed on to the next generation . |
| 9 | Then those same genes either get passed on to the next generation or they do n't . |
| 10 | In every generation , REPRODUCTION takes the genes that are supplied to it by the previous generation , and hands them on to the next generation but with minor random errors — mutations . |
| 11 | This hatred builds up and is then passed on to the next generation . |