Example sentences of "was derived from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bogomil heresy , which first appeared in Macedonia during the tenth century , was a disruptive force not only to the Byzantine Church but also to those rulers — Bulgar , Serb or Byzantine — whose authority was derived from the spiritual sanction of the Patriarch of Constantinople . |
| 2 | The form of astrolabe used in medieval Europe , however , was derived from the Muslim type found in Spain . |
| 3 | Whilst Hobbes described the rational structure of such a concentration of power and developed it into a veritable philosophy of power , Locke , taking up the challenge , demanded that the exercise of this power , although it was derived from the ultimate and unified source of all power the people remain divided by virtue of a fundamental decision . |
| 4 | In the case of relaxations that occurred before common cavity episodes , the reference basal UOS pressure was derived from the 10 seconds before the onset of the common cavity episode . |
| 5 | The picture of the universe as a mechanical affair of matter in motion did not originate , but rather was painted afresh , in the seventeenth century ; it was derived from the atomic theory of the ancient Greeks , Democritus and Epicurus . |
| 6 | The same point can be illustrated from the solid profit which was derived from the expanding royal protection of bishoprics . |
| 7 | The term was derived from the Greek oikos , referring to the operations of the family household , and it seems that Haeckel intended his readers to visualize a kind of global organic economy in which all species played a part . |
| 8 | An understanding of ‘ god ’ which was derived from the timeless story of evolution and life experience , and not from the results of the mindless suppression of the products of developing intelligence , would be a treasure indeed , and the very important first step in the establishing of this ‘ god ’ is the full acceptance of the premise that no such ‘ god ’ is already in existence , nor ever has been . |
| 9 | I shall be returning to these topics below , but at this stage it should be stressed again that the rather more re fined and flexible view of literariness that I have just outlined was derived from the founding principles of Formalism . |
| 10 | Her name was derived from the Latin root mens ( thought ) . |