Example sentences of "have passed from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the centuries the title of Count has passed from family to family as old dynasties withered away , intermarried or perished in battle . |
| 2 | This is admittedly an extreme case since Germany has passed from the , in theory , most complete pan-German political unity under Hitler to a situation where at least two states coexisted which could claim to be all or part of the German nation . |
| 3 | By the time a name , a word , a phrase , a sentence , a statement has passed from spoken Hebrew or Aramaic , to written Greek , to written Latin , and then to one or another modern language , it has often become utterly divorced from its original meaning . |
| 4 | So the memory has passed from a disordered state to an ordered one . |
| 5 | Our present party system and the way it works in elections has passed from being nearly useless to being pretty dangerous . |
| 6 | However , notwithstanding that registration has not occurred , the beneficial interest in the shares may have passed from the transferor to the transferee . |
| 7 | She felt that all compassion must have passed from Emilia with the emptying of her womb except for this last residue that smouldered in the promise she exacted now . |
| 8 | Since that distant time the Runefangs have served the counts of the Empire , having passed from ruler to ruler until the present day . |
| 9 | Having passed from the Mediterranean to the Indus without attracting the attention of a single government official , Battuta , like so many subsequent travellers , crossed the Indian frontier only to find himself caught up in an impenetrable web of bureaucracy : no sooner had they set foot on the east bank of the Indus than intelligence officials ‘ wrote to Delhi informing the king of our arrival and giving him all the details concerning us . ’ |
| 10 | She suddenly realised she had passed from the survival phase to a phase where she could see that The Body Shop had become a retailing institution that was going from strength to strength . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | By 1317 the manor had passed from the hands of the de Costentin family into those of the de Caversham family who , in turn , passed it on to the Herberts in 1550 . |
| 13 | By 1830 , the mill had passed from the Clissold family and was being run by Evans , Robson and Severs , who were London-based textile merchants . |
| 14 | By the time these results had been achieved , World War 11 had passed from the uneasy calm of its first winter into the violence of the European devastation of 1940 . |
| 15 | Now Diego was a man in years , and his strength had passed from him , so that he could not take vengeance , and he retired to his home to dwell there in solitude and lament over his dishonour . |
| 16 | What happened to a trust where the property had passed from the trustee to a third party is a matter for the next section . |
| 17 | The monarchy had passed from the Bruces to the Stewarts and Robert was the first of a new and long lasting dynasty . |
| 18 | Four years had elapsed since that splendid wedding but somehow although she herself had passed from childhood to early womanhood , Anne had still pictured Richard as he had been then . |
| 19 | There w–s no sense that we had passed from the holy world of church to secular life : there was a wholeness and a holiness about the whole experience which is difficult to describe . |
| 20 | James Hamilton had passed from aggressiveness to fuddled good nature , calling everyone his best friend , pressing more drinks upon them . |
| 21 | Even before this , the mantle of planning had passed from the Board of Trade to the Treasury and in the process its nature had changed from the planning of physical resources to financial planning . |
| 22 | Within government , power had passed from charismatic political leaders to committee men . |
| 23 | In the six years which followed his resignation as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster , Mosley himself had passed from Labour minister to Fascist leader . |
| 24 | But long before the appearance of the ESA , European leadership in space had passed from Britain to France . |
| 25 | Probably as a result of Leotychidas ' intervention of 476 the tageia had passed from the Aleuads , Pindar 's hosts . |
| 26 | The original Greek word had passed from meaning ‘ leisure ’ to the ‘ employment of leisure in disputation ’ and from that to both the institutional meaning and the more general description of a tendency . |
| 27 | Thirty minutes had passed from his initial inspection to the point where he now marked down another match . |
| 28 | Joe 's dad had passed from being a weekend to an entirely absent father and it was n't long before even the sporadic invitations for his son to holiday in the States petered out altogether . |
| 29 | What we see is a little temple-state , the economic and social structures of which had been shattered by the recent wars between Antiochus III and Ptolemy V. Palestine had passed from Egyptian to Syrian control . |
| 30 | Only the truth had passed from Timothy Gedge , the unarguable strength of it , the power and the glory of it . |