Example sentences of "is passed from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Perhaps people can only address the meeting when they hold a certain talisman ( which is passed from speaker to speaker ) . |
| 3 | Stigma is attached to AIDS because of strong social disapproval of the ‘ risk activities ’ by which HIV is passed from person to person and because of ignorance and fear . |
| 4 | Each time credit is passed from rule to rule , the rule which passes it keeps back a little for itself . |
| 5 | Each time a bucket is passed from hand to hand , a little water is spilt . |
| 6 | For example , one sage quoted by Bodine railed against the custom of saying that X and Y were married , or worse , that Mr X was married to Miss Y. Propriety would be better served , he pointed out , if this fact were always expressed in terms of the woman being married to the man , since it is the woman who is passed from father to husband and loses her identity . |