Example sentences of "[vb -s] from their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some sociologists claim that an individual 's class position is largely achieved ; it results from their personal qualities and abilities and the use they make of them rather than ascribed characteristics such as the status of their parents or the colour of their skin . |
| 2 | Today , the power of networks stems from their information-sharing capabilities . |
| 3 | Today , the power of networks stems from their information-sharing capabilities |
| 4 | By 1427 , much of Maine and Anjou , names whose familiarity stems from their frequent appearance on the list of English diplomatic demands , were in the hands of the English , now advancing southwards . |
| 5 | Now they have eaten and drunk , taking turns from their one glass with the broken pedestal , smoked their short pipe , and are finally done telling their experiences of the past day . |
| 6 | Its members would effectively have to buy milk supplies from their main competitor . |
| 7 | However , these classifications can not successfully be extrapolated to gastrointestinal lymphomas as MALT lymphocytes and their derived lymphomas seem to have a physiology that differs from their nodal counterparts . |
| 8 | Even when there are specialist historians , producing approximations to truth which their colleagues test and scrutinize to professional standards , people make home brews from their own lives and knowledge and offer them to their successors . |
| 9 | The name derives from their similar appearance , more imagined than real , to the buttertubs formerly in common use among the farming communities in the district . |
| 10 | Although the tasks that make up housework are dissimilar , there is said to be a ‘ sameness ’ about them which derives from their frequent need to be repeated , their lack of intrinsic meaning , and the impermanence of the goals they achieve . |
| 11 | Finally , although the majority of colleges and institutes of higher education are local education establishments , twenty-four of them are voluntary colleges run by the churches and educational trusts , a situation which derives from their previous existence as voluntary colleges of education . |
| 12 | The Gibson influence on the guitar emanates from their concurrent range of jazz instruments , in particular the '50s Byrdland , Gibson 's specially developed ‘ exclusive ’ hybrid of the ES350T and L5CES . |
| 13 | Again , part of men 's extra earnings comes from their greater tendency to work shifts for which they get paid extra , and overtime which gets paid at premium rates . |
| 14 | The required logical format of these publications arises from their statutory nature . |
| 15 | However , their utility is constrained by a paradox which arises from their underlying rationale . |
| 16 | In simpler ways , libraries may deliberately remove certain reference works from their regular places on the shelves and then monitor reader reactions . |
| 17 | We now are setting into motion a new system , whereby the PAs to the Head of Groups/Sectors keep copies of the Christian Aid self-certificate form and should ensure that as soon as a member of staff returns from their sick leave they fill it in . |