Example sentences of "[be] passed from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're living proof that asthma can be passed from generation to generation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Some of the features of a status society , such as peerages , can be passed from father to son : the inheritance is founded in law . |
| 5 | A letter had arrived from Asba Tafari addressed to the head of my escort ; it had been passed from chief to chief . |
| 6 | It had been passed from hand to hand along a chain of trusted men until it came into his own , its message comprehensible only to his eyes . |
| 7 | Once she 'd got known for being presentable , turning up sober and on time , not leaving early with the spoons and able to tell left hand from right , word got round and she 'd been passed from college to college by grateful manciples . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | The overall law of this country is laid down and maintained by Parliament by means of Acts which are passed from time to time . |
| 11 | Diseased organs are passed from doctor to doctor on plastic lunch trays . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Manuscripts of his treatise The Ladder of Perfection were passed from monastery to monastery and were soon found as far afield as southern France . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Perhaps people can only address the meeting when they hold a certain talisman ( which is passed from speaker to speaker ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Each time credit is passed from rule to rule , the rule which passes it keeps back a little for itself . |
| 19 | Each time a bucket is passed from hand to hand , a little water is spilt . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Nina was passed from person to person . |
| 23 | She was passed from hand to hand . |
| 24 | Champagne corks popped inside the East Ham home and there was a special chocolate pudding for Farrah , who was passed from hand to hand . |
| 25 | Then , on D'Arcy 's insistence , he was passed from extension to extension . |
| 26 | At two Mina was passed from father to husband . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | My story was that I was the orphaned son of my father 's long-lost younger brother , and only staying on occasional extended holidays on the island while I was passed from relative to relative and my future was decided . |
| 29 | 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 . |