Example sentences of "derive from [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | They had as much right to be there as I , and I was in no position to judge what benefits they were deriving from their experiences , beyond a developed attraction towards pyromania . |
| 4 | There was considerable suspicion , for example , of health visitors , deriving from their reputation for criticism of poor mothers ' conduct of their homes and families . |
| 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 | A limitation of her analysis , deriving from its emphasis on aesthetics , and found also in some of the recent discussions of media and advertising , is a tendency to exaggerate the unique properties of the individual object , as against the type-token nature of words which almost always refer back to some generic category . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It compounds still further those two legacies so actively conjoined since the previous summer of 1837 : the historical , biogeographical ( including ecological ) concerns that he had inherited from Lyell , and the generational concerns deriving from his study with Grant and subsequent reading in Erasmus Darwin . |
| 10 | He said , ‘ It is possible to bypass the censor which normally filters the impulses deriving from our subconscious , and let out things which ought to be kept in . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | These authors find empirical support to be lacking for the basic postulates of the theory which Levy and Reid derived from their original observations . |
| 13 | This demonstrated the advantages which the DCAC derived from its ability to attract fresh minds like McClean 's and the good will it had from the Catholic community in general . |
| 14 | These two offices , coupled with the less formal influence Gloucester derived from his closeness to the king , ensured that for contemporaries the duke 's importance was national rather than purely regional . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Finally , it is as well to recall the lesson which Philip Selznick derived from his study of the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1940s about how public organizations can increase the security of their position viz-à-viz social forces in the environment by co-optation or the process of ‘ absorbing new elements into the leadership or policy-determining structure of an organization as a means of averting threats to its stability or existence ’ ( Selznick 1949 , p. 259 ) . |
| 17 | These two offices , coupled with the less formal influence Gloucester derived from his closeness to the king , ensured that for contemporaries the duke 's importance was national rather than purely regional . |
| 18 | Despite the positive benefits that most had derived from their investment , few were willing to borrow in order to expand their use . |
| 19 | Australians too raise their voices querulously at the end of a sentence , only in harsh tones no doubt derived from their country 's past . |
| 20 | It is perhaps not appropriate to insist that Zuwaya , resisting government regulation , had an image of a different kind of economic order , consistent with or derived from their image of Arab government , and opposed to the principles of Islamic socialism . |
| 21 | Their name is derived from their food , which these are obliged to take with them and eat cold . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | ‘ Now the colours of which the air is composed are blue , red , and yellow and an infinite variety of tint is derived from their mixture . ’ |
| 25 | The profit derived from their sale could not be very considerable , and the land , if to be sold , would be regarded as infinitely less valuable to the situation purchaser . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | Rational Dissenters themselves exemplified a variety of doctrinal positions derived from their commitment to individual enquiry in matters of belief . |
| 30 | The political power which some women have exercised sometimes and in some places in the past and other societies has derived from their position in a familial or kinship group . |