Example sentences of "[adv prt] from generation " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the duck used for Tai Bai Duck ( a dish handed down from generation to generation and named after the Tang dynasty poet Li Tai Bai ) despite being supplied by Cherry Valley , is , promises Jermey , authentic , because the company supplied much of China 's duck breeding stock . |
| 2 | He was aware that famous players of those roles had developed their own ways of interpretation and tricks , which were then handed down from generation to generation . |
| 3 | We want to see wealth and security being passed down from generation to generation . |
| 4 | Folklore has been passed down from generation to generation , some of it full of deep and obvious truth , some mere dogma of doubtful veracity . |
| 5 | There were unpaid , unqualified ‘ nurses ‘ , usually senior ladies of the dale who possessed all the medical folklore and herbal remedies handed down from generation to generation . |
| 6 | Another is that as gooseberry growing is one of those traditions which are passed down from generation to generation , and fathers were still able to pass their bushes on to their sons . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | What do they say , those bloody know-alls whose wisdom is handed down from generation to generation ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Some of these rules are concerned with the different components which go to make up a traditional story — the kind of story which is orally handed down from generation to generation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is not surprising that the skills of Chinese herbal medicine handed down from generation to generation are viewed with scepticism by many outsiders . |
| 13 | That 's right , a family thing , you hand it down from generation to generation |
| 14 | They drag on from generation to generation and emigration to Britain makes very little difference . |
| 15 | That added to the bitterness which has lived on from generation to generation . |
| 16 | It is an oral history , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is passed on from generation to generation in a chain , and is very difficult to break . |
| 19 | During the journey , the Chaplain had already inducted the Necromundan boys into proper worship , with a strong emphasis on adoration of Rogal Dorn , whose own gene-seeds — bred on from generation to generation of Imperial Fists within their implanted progenoid glands — would kindle the neophyte cadets into Marines , true Marines of the chapter . |
| 20 | Sometimes a trait gets passed on from generation to generation , and sometimes it can be missed out altogether . |
| 21 | But psychological violence stays with you , it festers , it can be passed on from generation to generation . ’ |
| 22 | The ie was more than a group of individuals ; it was a continuing entity carrying on from generation to generation embracing people , property and reputation . |
| 23 | This is one of the methods by which the history of the people is passed on from generation to generation . |
| 24 | For hundreds and indeed thousands of years , this knowledge has only been intuitive , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Row was a highly-traditional society where the skills of the trade were passed on from generation to generation . |