Example sentences of "largely derived from [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I puzzled over this one for some time and came to the conclusion that my children 's concept of life is largely derived from fairy stories in which anybody with power is always male .
2 The lower unit is characterised by an average porosity of about 13% which is largely derived from vugs produced by leaching of replacement anhydrite .
3 In English , in fact , graphology is largely derived from phonology : our alphabetic writing system represents , however imperfectly , the sounds of speech , and punctuation , at least in part , duplicates the roles of stress and intonation in spoken discourse .
4 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 .
5 Support for this comes from the finding that faecal protease activity , largely derived from bacteria , is increased threefold in colitis .
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