Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv prt] from father " in BNC.
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| 1 | The centuries ' old recipe has been handed down from father to son . |
| 2 | This is a district where old crafts are handed down from father to son . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A child , named Lewis after his father , was born to Goram and his wife 18 months ago , and added another stabilising dimension to the life of a player now consumed by the need to make the most of the gifts that were handed down from father to son . |
| 5 | Their status was hereditary , land and titles being passed on from father to son . |
| 6 | This means that harem females are being passed down from father to son in a patrilineal fashion . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Money was handed down from father to son ; it lost its merit as a token of worth ; the idle and nasty could be a great deal more rich than the hardworking and good . |