Example sentences of "[adv] derived from [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lower unit is characterised by an average porosity of about 13% which is largely derived from vugs produced by leaching of replacement anhydrite . |
| 2 | Braitenberg says these internal connections are of two kinds : local interconnections of about 1 mm , which are largely derived from collaterals of axons leaving one region of neocortex and carrying messages elsewhere ; and long-range , distant connections carried by the axons I have just mentioned . |
| 3 | Support for this comes from the finding that faecal protease activity , largely derived from bacteria , is increased threefold in colitis . |
| 4 | Chief Constables , for example , are n a different position from other chief officers by holding executive authority in their own right ( and not derived from councillors ) , an arrangement which lies at the heart of suggestions that the police are less accountable for their actions than other local-authority employees ( Oliver , 1987 ) . |
| 5 | The clubmosses , which created most of the coal seams , are more closely related to ferns than they are to pine trees , and oil — from which most synthetics are obtained — is not derived from plants at all . |
| 6 | Whether such , perhaps resulting from crosses with male plants not far away , would have survived competition with those possibly derived from crosses with more distant fathers , in a mixed infructescence is not clear but this example and several others show how unrestrictive certain ‘ syndromes ’ are . |
| 7 | From a variationist point of view , however , this is not necessarily conclusive , as language is variable at all times ; thus , it could be the case that modern [ h ] -ful and [ h ] -less varieties are each equally derived from varieties in which [ h ] -loss was variable — not categorically absent or categorically present . |
| 8 | Some of it was undoubtedly derived from associations with British India , where graveyards abounded in miniature pagodas and obelisks . |
| 9 | In the late 1790s and early 1800s , when the poems mentioned above were written , Wordsworth was trying to justify and illustrate educational theories ultimately derived from books like Rousseau 's Émile ( see page 75 ) . |
| 10 | In tropical rural areas , rainfall may average pH 4.5 , due mainly to natural organic acidity , most likely derived from emissions of volatile organic acids from vegetation , such as isoprene and terpene ( Bridgman , 1989 , 1990 ) . |