Example sentences of "passed from [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A letter had arrived from Asba Tafari addressed to the head of my escort ; it had been passed from chief to chief . |
| 2 | In the Middle Ages a stream of inventions , such as gunpowder , paper , and the mariner 's compass , passed from China to Europe . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They 're living proof that asthma can be passed from generation to generation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The hydra 's psychic spores would remain dormant in human brains for untold generations , passed from parent to child . |
| 7 | Among the habits and values passed from parent to child are political ones . |
| 8 | ‘ As a biologist , my main interest has for some years been human genetics , the study of the way in which various characteristics are passed from parent to offspring . |
| 9 | It is a role passed from character to character , each of whom makes different use of it . |
| 10 | George 's wits began to return and he realised that he would have soon passed from sleep to death , if Elizabeth had not found him . |
| 11 | As the story was passed from lip to lip , the level of destruction became greater and greater , as did the area of the land destroyed . |
| 12 | Yu was a new recruitment campaign ; a rallying call ; a word passed from lip to ear ; a look , perhaps , between two sympathetic to the cause . |
| 13 | But long before the appearance of the ESA , European leadership in space had passed from Britain to France . |
| 14 | Indeed , they are keen to advertise the fact by stamping their personalities on their home , something which is evidenced by looking at homes in Britain which have passed from public to private ownership . |
| 15 | Perhaps people can only address the meeting when they hold a certain talisman ( which is passed from speaker to speaker ) . |
| 16 | Nina was passed from person to person . |
| 17 | A little scared , very curious , ravenously hungry and ready to argue the toss with anyone after being passed from person to person like so many yards of parcelled muslin . |
| 18 | HIV is not easily passed from person to person . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Once the funeral was over and they were back in the parlour of the cosy farmhouse , the atmosphere lightened and Victoria was passed from group to group , chattering like an enchanting little doll . |
| 21 | A drink was thrust into her hand and within five minutes she was being passed from group to group as though she were the prize exhibit ; asked numerous questions she did n't know how to or have time to answer ; told endless tales of this person or that person ; until eventually , somewhat bewildered , she ended up in the bar with someone called Patrick who began regaling her with tales of old Ireland . |
| 22 | We know that we have passed from death to life because we love brother Christians ’ ( 3:13f ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Women were still seen as a valuable commodity , to be passed from father to husband , and at the accession of James I , any property a woman might hold would immediately become her husbands on marriage . |
| 25 | At two Mina was passed from father to husband . |
| 26 | The Marquess of Salisbury had become Prime Minister in 1895 , and in 1889 his government introduced death duties which were to lead to the gradual breaking up of the wealthy estates , which previously had passed from father to son — or some other relative — without any loss . |
| 27 | Like other trades and ‘ mysteries ’ , chemical or pharmaceutical knowledge was to be passed from father to son , or master to apprentice , or wise woman to her daughter , and not broadcast to the world . |
| 28 | Some of the features of a status society , such as peerages , can be passed from father to son : the inheritance is founded in law . |
| 29 | and one boy chose to write about plumbing and do you know , he found that there was nothing written down about plumbing in the early nineteen seventies there were one or two plumbing text books , they were very expensive and you could only get them through The Institute of Plumbers plumbing is something that until about nineteen seventy five was passed from father to son or uncle to nephew it was a sort of secret craft you know , you can |
| 30 | The overall law of this country is laid down and maintained by Parliament by means of Acts which are passed from time to time . |