Example sentences of "derive from [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In this way Miliband argued that power was derived not just from ownership of the means of production but might also derive from position as a politician or bureaucrat in the state 's institutions .
2 It is true his poems seem the products of a constricted emotional experience and that he appears to have drawn rather heavily on books for the heat he could not derive from life .
3 The combination of variety , interest and entertainment we can derive from video makes it an aid which can help develop motivation in learners .
4 We want , above all else , a system of inspection that does not derive from ideology , that is not a quick fix , that does not represent a commitment to privatisation on the ground that the Department of Education and Science must deliver its element of privatisation .
5 Authority , then , does not derive from competence to carry out tasks .
6 The majesty of the law does not derive from pomp , but from fear .
7 The literariness of poetic rhythm , for example , can not necessarily be ascribed to mere rhythm , but will more likely derive from disruption of the rhythm .
8 The power of the court to disallow a mortgagee 's costs sought to be added to the mortgage security is a power that does not derive from section 51 but from the power of courts of equity to fix the terms on which redemption will be allowed .
9 He envisages that a change in outlook may derive from appreciation of the complex event sequences that new techniques have now exposed in the Quaternary ; from appraisal of the classical models of change to accommodate the realization that extreme rapidity of change now has to be considered when evaluating chronological biotal and geomorphological processes ; from adjustment of geomorphology to new knowledge of Quaternary change such as rate of ice sheet growth and decay ; and similar adjustment of biogeography and of palaeoclimatology .
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