Example sentences of "derive from [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once a scientist has universal laws and theories at his disposal , it is possible for him to derive from them various consequences that serve as explanations and predictions . |
| 2 | It is now necessary to draw some of these strands together and reach some general conclusions about the merit of the Essex project , and to derive from them some prescriptions for action for anyone seeking to enhance library provision in similar ways . |
| 3 | ‘ Sexuality ’ has in many ways been most resistant to this challenge , precisely because its power seems to derive from our biological being , but there have recently been several sustained challenges to sexual essentialism , from quite different theoretical approaches : the interactionist ( associated particularly with the work of Gagnon and Simon , and in Britain Kenneth Plummer ) ; the psychoanalytic ( associated with the reinterpretation of Freud initiated by Jacques Lacan , and taken up by feminist writers such as Juliet Mitchell ) ; and the discursive , taking as its starting point the work of Michel Foucault . |
| 4 | ‘ Dixie ’ — a nickname said to derive from his swarthy complexion and curly black hair — preferred to augment his income by making bets with bookmakers on the basis of the number of goals he could score in a game ( one goal was evens , two goals 5–2 , and three 10- 1 ) , Sportsmen , especially footballers , had since the 1880s been used on cigarette cards as free advertising for a brand . |
| 5 | The Dutch biotechnology company , Gist Brocades , is working on a scheme by which pigs could be fed with a product deriving from their own waste . |
| 6 | The inherently authoritarian structure of the prison , deriving from its main functions of control and security , relies upon explicit threats of force which would be unacceptable elsewhere in a liberal democratic state . |
| 7 | But this streak of obsessionality , deriving from his loss-all those years ago , not only haunts him , it 's made him a remarkably untrusting person even towards his own children . |
| 8 | We can observe that she is happy only when she is furious , and do not need to have it suggested that her earlier nickname of ‘ Thatcher Milk-Snatcher ’ derived from her own breast-deprivation , which denies her all happiness and allows her ‘ only the sadistic triumphs of tawdry political and military victories . ’ |
| 9 | These authors find empirical support to be lacking for the basic postulates of the theory which Levy and Reid derived from their original observations . |
| 10 | But it was Eliot who in the end loosened the hold of the " modernists " on English culture — not only did he assert the public role and " social usefulness " of the writer in an almost nineteenth-century manner , but he also announced that the principles he derived from his religious belief were more enduring than literary or critical ones . |
| 11 | Sotheby 's declared their full-year figures on 19 March which showed an overall profit of $21 million , of which $12.1 derived from their auctioneering activities and the rest from real estate and financial activities . |
| 12 | Led by a man named William Shorter , the gang had begun as a small group of poachers , their nickname derived from their dark clothing and blacked up faces for nocturnal raids in the forest . |
| 13 | They were ( like Tawney and Webb before them ) clear about the injustices and the distortions in the contemporary system , but what kind of programme could be derived from their aching nostalgia for a working-class world that was slipping away ? |
| 14 | The Morgan Stanley Leveraged Equity Fund II , L.P. , The Morgan Stanley Leveraged Equity Fund II , Inc. ; MS/WW L.P. ; and MS/ww Holdings Incorporated have notified an interest ( 14.95% ) in the Company derived from their respective interests in the shares registered in the name of Shuttleway . |
| 15 | Shapton Limited and Lombard Holdings Limited have each disclosed to the Company a notifiable interest in accordance with the Companies Act 1990 derived from their respective shares registered in the name of Shuttleway . |
| 16 | When in the 1960s poverty was ‘ rediscovered ’ in the UK , it became clear from research findings that those elderly people who had occupational retirement pensions derived from their previous employment were least likely to be living in poverty , as then defined . |
| 17 | This may , at first sight , seem like too much to swallow , though even the Greeks and Romans of the classical era also entertained such ideas , derived from their own mystics . |
| 18 | Few married women had occupational pensions derived from their own earnings . |
| 19 | Women 's access to occupational pension benefits , particularly those derived from their own ( not a husband 's ) paid work record , is a crucial issue in the light of the major changes to retirement pension provision enacted in 1986 ( see Groves , 1991 ) . |
| 20 | The refractoriness of our malariological critics to the notion of resistant parasites leads them to a paradox ; they refer to ‘ the continuing efficacy of 4-aminoquinolines ’ whereas the table derived from their own 1990 studies shows 41% resistance to these drugs . |
| 21 | Though Stark does not seem to share Scheler 's ambitious project completely , he is willing to import the essentialist and absolutist components of Scheler 's work , derived from their shared Catholicism ( Hamilton 1974 : 87 ) . |
| 22 | Elders who sustain high levels of verbal consciousness are unlikely to be perceived as ‘ old ’ , but rather as continuing ‘ middle aged ’ or as having a special status derived from their past education or profession . |
| 23 | A major difficulty is that the inert gases account for only a small fraction of the volatiles known at the surfaces and in the atmospheres of the three planets , where the volatiles almost entirely consist of CO 2 , H 2 O , N 2 and O 2 , or of compounds derived from them such as carbonates , hydroxy-silicates and nitrates . |
| 24 | Thus up to the end of World War II ( when the public sector marriage bar was abolished and young women retained paid jobs on marriage ) , in order to qualify for an occupational pension in old age derived from her own earnings a woman usually had to remain unmarried . |
| 25 | As a Jumièges monk , some of his information may have derived from its former abbot , Robert , who became bishop of London and then in 1051 archbishop of Canterbury , but fled England during the political crisis of 1052 , subsequently returning to Jumièges , where he died . |
| 26 | X since the majority of Mentor 's revenue is derived from its installed base of around 30,000 . |
| 27 | Naturally , the position of each country derived from its perceived view of the postwar scene : in an open environment US airlines and aircraft could not lose , whereas Britain would be driven from the air . |
| 28 | As a result of adolescence becoming a ‘ social fact ’ , a specificity was bestowed on boy labour which gave the whole subject of juvenile employment an enhanced status in part derived from its scientific description , and in part from its social relevance . |
| 29 | Similarly , the right hemisphere 's superior visuo-spatial performance is derived from its synthetic , holistic manner of dealing with information with ambiguous instruction simply to match the similar stimuli . |
| 30 | The layout and design of the domus was derived from its Hellenistic prototype as built on Delos and at Priene ( page 82 ) , . |