Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , enzyme defects are inherited — passed on from parents to children in the form of an abnormal gene . |
| 2 | It is an oral history , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 3 | For hundreds and indeed thousands of years , this knowledge has only been intuitive , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | What I knew about the Legion was based on a series of rumours and pieces of misinformation passed down from recruit to recruit . |
| 6 | He is armed with the Sword of Justice , an ancient weapon passed down from Champion to Champion through the reigns of successive Emperors . |
| 7 | The main Jacobite army now moved on from Dalwhinnie to Perth , and from there to Edinburgh . |
| 8 | I wandered in from time to time looking , usually , for something which was out of print or which no other bookseller had come around to stocking . |
| 9 | Earnings per share moved up from 14.04p to 15.36p and the company is raising the final dividend from 4.34p to 4.57p , to boost the total by 5.3 per cent to 6.36p . |
| 10 | SEVENTY-EIGHT-year-old Pop Staples belongs to that great generation of bluesmen who moved up from Mississippi to Chicago in the 1930s . |
| 11 | In my day and at a good school , it was easy , as you moved up from class to class , to miss out totally on some period of English history — the only history that was taught . |
| 12 | Yeah , I mean , obviously erm , I think we originally moved back from Thursdays to Wednesdays because on Thursdays I think erm |
| 13 | The next phase of Haslam 's career was one where he moved about from company to company rather than from function to function . |
| 14 | At least there was someone to look after them as they wandered about from place to place . |
| 15 | From Cambridge it is , yes , er that 's actually one of its great strengths , because it is n't a thing which has been revised and added on to , it is completely new , and before we actually made it , our editor , David Crystal , er actually is probably the only person in the world to have sat and read through from cover to cover four other encyclopaedias , to find out what was wrong with them , how they could be improved . |
| 16 | One couple came down from London to the art gallery and have seen some very interesting works . |
| 17 | Following the graduation ceremonies and Convocation Ball on that first Friday of May , 1929 , my father and I drove back from Saskatoon to Moose Jaw on Saturday . |
| 18 | If our English binge had been held in a medieval university we should have had , mixed with the bawdy songs , tragical and even devotional pieces , equally authorless and handed on from mouth to mouth in the same way , with the same individual variations . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It is not surprising that the skills of Chinese herbal medicine handed down from generation to generation are viewed with scepticism by many outsiders . |
| 22 | The cab hurtled along from pool to pool of the bleak , unnerving light , struggling over the large brown lumps that bulged like bubbles in the roadway . |
| 23 | P Cygni , in the Swan , flared up from obscurity to magnitude 3 in 1600 , and then declined ; for well over a century now it has hovered around the fifth magnitude , easy to estimate with binoculars . |
| 24 | In 1600 it flared up from obscurity to the third magnitude ; ever since 1715 it has fluctuated around 5 , and may be compared with 28 Cygni ( 4.8 ) and 29 Cygni ( 5.0 ) . |
| 25 | He had had to conceal his revulsion at the creased and thumbed photographs handed round from desk to desk at school — those grey girls with their balloon breasts and gaping hairy forks . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The electricity package powered on from £2453 to £3040 , a 24 p.c. rise . |
| 28 | So they need fresh enemies ordered up from time to time just to keep their chins jutting . |
| 29 | Rapid embarkation and unloading is achieved via metal steps shuffled around from door to door . |
| 30 | Lost in the malai chain of command , shuffled round from captor to captor , I would not have given a great deal for my chances . |