Example sentences of "[pron] derive from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Such ideas , which derive from views about the place of humanity in nature that long pre-date Darwin and the birth of modern biology , very much misunderstand evolutionary theory .
2 Hence , the abolition of the state , of representative institutions , of parties and of all loyalties which derive from acts of political will and reason rather than natural kinship .
3 It is necessary for you to take this kind of positive approach ; think in terms of maximizing the number of nutrients that you derive from food by eating the right kind of balance of different foods during meals .
4 Another of our clients who thought that the pleasure we derive from works of art increases in ratio to the difficulties we experience in arriving in front of them , was a Russian emigrant who had started his career in the Hermitage Museum .
5 But behind this victimised female self , whose actions and desires are assumed to be not truly ‘ her own ’ , since they derive from processes of force , conditioning or psychological manipulation , there is seen to be an authentic female self , whose recovery or discovery it is one of the aims of feminism to achieve .
6 The problem with these models is that they are inductive in nature : they derive from analysis of a set of data which may , or may not , be characteristic of the whole universe of discourse .
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