Example sentences of "pass [adv] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , enzyme defects are inherited — passed on from parents to children in the form of an abnormal gene . |
| 2 | It is an oral history , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 3 | For hundreds and indeed thousands of years , this knowledge has only been intuitive , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | What I knew about the Legion was based on a series of rumours and pieces of misinformation passed down from recruit to recruit . |
| 6 | He is armed with the Sword of Justice , an ancient weapon passed down from Champion to Champion through the reigns of successive Emperors . |
| 7 | Rejecting Galen 's theory , that blood passes directly from right to left ventricle , he proposed a vital role for the lungs , where a vital spirit emerged from the mixture of air and blood . |
| 8 | It needs a firm beginning , a detailed and carefully prepared centre that passes logically from item to item , and an ending that rounds it off . |
| 9 | High up on the other side of the square is a sign on which words pass rapidly from right to left across a bank of lights . |
| 10 | It remains a secret , though it is said to be passed on from chairman to chairman in a discreet whisper . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Genetics deals with how genes are passed on from parents to their offspring and a great deal is known about the mechanisms governing this process . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is passed on from generation to generation in a chain , and is very difficult to break . |
| 15 | Sometimes a trait gets passed on from generation to generation , and sometimes it can be missed out altogether . |
| 16 | But psychological violence stays with you , it festers , it can be passed on from generation to generation . ’ |
| 17 | This is one of the methods by which the history of the people is passed on from generation to generation . |
| 18 | The Row was a highly-traditional society where the skills of the trade were passed on from generation to generation . |
| 19 | So this is how one chance question at evening classes gets passed on from machine to machine . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | By exaggerating these postures the differences were obvious but as the paddle strokes were passed on from instructor to instructor the artificial distortions were slowly adopted into reality . |
| 23 | Skills that are passed on from mother to daughter . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Their status was hereditary , land and titles being passed on from father to son . |
| 26 | ‘ Arts ’ , or crafts , relied on practice ; and these traditional activities were passed on from father to son , or at least master to apprentice , as Faraday learned bookbinding , and as Davy had begun to learn medicine . |
| 27 | The shape-specific polymers continued to be passed on from potency to potency even after none of the original solute was left in the solution . |
| 28 | He could also play a variety of instruments ( and passed on this ability to his children ) and knew songs and melodies which had never been written down — just passed on from ear to ear via generations of Dalesmen . |
| 29 | We want to see wealth and security being passed down from generation to generation . |
| 30 | Folklore has been passed down from generation to generation , some of it full of deep and obvious truth , some mere dogma of doubtful veracity . |