Example sentences of "[noun sg] borrowed from " in BNC.
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| 1 | a term borrowed from the Victorian pseudo-science of phrenology , the basic premiss of which was that character could be gauged from the shape of the skull , which phrenologists divided into some 40 sections or ‘ organs ’ , each one being the seat of a mental or moral faculty . |
| 2 | Using a technical term borrowed from electron optics we could say that the electron beam gets defocused . |
| 3 | soc : Well , for a start , I would open up our full methodological tool box and start using techniques other than randomised trials and models of research borrowed from epidemiology . |
| 4 | It is both experimental and learned , aiming ‘ to strike a little out of ’ the beaten track of novels and essays , with scenes and dialogue borrowed from the drama , an allegorical framework explicitly borrowed from Edmund Spenser [ q.v. ] , scholarly footnotes , and invented words like ‘ turba ’ for a legion of evil passions , ‘ trouble , bustle and confusion ’ ( vol. i , pp. 194–5 ) . |
| 5 | This was a tactic borrowed from the NCOAP . |
| 6 | By five I am sober and handle the meeting with a superb professionalism borrowed from Mildred Pierce and Mommie Dearest . |
| 7 | Isabel was sitting on a stool by the fire , dressed in a filmy shift borrowed from Joanna , a mantle over her shoulders for extra warmth , when the door opened and he was there , tall and strong , the sconce lights gleaming on his fair hair . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , a Washington Post article borrowed from Little Red Riding Hood to exclaim sarcastically : ‘ What big teeth you have , Grandma ’ . |
| 9 | Other aspects of taking stock include realistic goal-setting ( jargon borrowed from behavioural psychologists for making sensible decisions about what , given your talents and your time , you can hope to get done ) and delegating . |
| 10 | Forty per cent of the works in this show are from the Zimmerli Collection with the rest borrowed from the Bibliothèque nationale Paris . |
| 11 | As Del Genie — a name borrowed from an American theology student who was also a conjuror — he did magic tricks round the town , at rotary clubs and children 's shows . |
| 12 | There are early permanent four-wheel drive boxes with a freewheel borrowed from the then current P3 car range ( as were the main gearbox , brakes , diff , steering box and wheel , engine , etc. ) ; two-wheel drive only boxes built for the 88 inch SI 2WD army contract ; boxes with two synchro and boxes with three synchro and varying ratios in the transfer box , the lowest being in the One Ton and Forward Controls . |
| 13 | Luiza had decked her inevitable blue with a piece of tat borrowed from the wardrobe , and Ingrid wore black silk trousers and a gold waistcoat and very little else . |
| 14 | He published his first volume of poetry , De vous la merveille — the title borrowed from Malherbe — in 1937 . |
| 15 | A central feature of the government 's binary policy and the concept of a ‘ public sector ’ was the decision to concentrate a good deal of advanced work in a new generation of ‘ polytechnics ’ — a title borrowed from an earlier response to technological and economic demand — the generation of polytechnics created in London in the last two decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | Tuathal , in a leather helmet borrowed from someone , had wiped his face , seamed with infilled pock-marks like a well-repaired amphora . |
| 17 | In her book on the local state Cynthia Cockburn develops this idea by suggesting that the main criticism to be applied to corporate planning in local government was that it was a method borrowed from the private sector and was thus inherently anti-democratic , implying control from the top and attempts to manage the community ( the reproduction of labour power ) , as well as the workforce ( in the process of production ) ( Cockburn , 1977 , pp. 6–18 ) . |
| 18 | John Hoskyns , who was later knighted by a grateful Prime Minister for his work in running her Policy Unit , talked of the Churchill/Eden/Macmillan/Home period as ‘ the thirteen wasted years ’ , a phrase borrowed from a Labour campaign slogan . |
| 19 | That confiture d'oignons , for instance , for which the recipe appeared in Michel Guérard 's Cuisine Gourmande and which has since made the tour du monde surely derived from Pomiane 's dish of sweet-sour onions in which the sweetening elements were sultanas and pain d " épices , the spiced honey cake of central Europe , and which Pomiane had in turn borrowed from the Jewish cookery of his native Poland . |
| 20 | The concept of relative norm also explains a more wholesale kind of deviance : the adoption , in literature , of a style borrowed from some " foreign " norm . |
| 21 | A documentary section features invitation cards , posters , catalogues and other Pop ephemera borrowed from Leo Castelli 's archives and the artist 's library . |
| 22 | A documentary section features invitation cards , posters , catalogues and other Pop ephemera borrowed from Leo Castelli 's archives and the artist 's library . |
| 23 | The government borrowed from the banks about four-fifths of these deposits , to finance its deficit . |
| 24 | Again Mungo had the sensation that the village was no more than a clearing ; a space borrowed from the forest . |
| 25 | Jamie Marston , the youngest competitor , struggled hard to make headway in a leaking canoe borrowed from the host club while Peter Weeks showed much greater confidence than a year ago when he was the youngest sailor . |
| 26 | It creates ‘ spread-spectrum ’ signalling , a technique borrowed from military communications . |
| 27 | The trick is to apply a technique borrowed from optical audio Compact Disks and carve a tiny spiral groove in the surface that the head can follow to improve the tracking accuracy of the magnetic head . |
| 28 | Money borrowed from a pawnbroker did not have to be repaid for fifteen months . |
| 29 | The insolvency department has moved to Southampton based Lyon Pilcher , the Salisbury office is closing down with the loss of four jobs , and Gaynor Harris is back where she started with the Southampton practice ( to be known as Hook Harris ) which she has bought from the old partnership with Charles Bullworthy , with money borrowed from family and friends . |
| 30 | Using money borrowed from Western banks , Ceauşescu embarked on building an oil-refining capacity three times greater than Romania 's domestic production of oil . |