Example sentences of "derive [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What can we get out of it and we 'll do that tomorrow , we 'll derive y'know estimates of expectations , co-efficients and and elasticities and it 's those sorts of things that you might be asked to in an exam but , you wo n't need to derive anything in your exams |
| 2 | One of the young readers in his study , Joanne , is reading James Herbert 's horror book , The rats , and he comments that ‘ The rats is trash ; but from the practice of reading trash a reader can still derive experience of fiction applicable in later reading . |
| 3 | Of course on diverted trade the government does not derive tariff revenue . |
| 4 | A country can also derive export revenue from service income , e.g. shipping and tourism , together with remittances from overseas workers . |
| 5 | But if we are to talk about pedagogy , individual effort must be referred to more general ideas , otherwise there is no way for experience to be communicated , no way in which others can derive benefit from the particular successes of the individual . |
| 6 | This compact volume offers great flexibility and whether used as the basis for a year 's study or recommended for some last minute cramming , the student will derive benefit from it . |
| 7 | The book is highly informative and well set out and will be required reading for many farming and veterinary students and many established dairy farmers would derive benefit from its contents . |
| 8 | The linking of a church having good resources and experience with another which is struggling could provide a useful and manageable means of learning , and both churches would derive benefit from it . |
| 9 | " Good " dealers will derive motivation from the frowns of the establishment , the black looks of the wary and the total disinterest of 90% of the population . |
| 10 | The criticisms that we make derive strength from an analysis of other jurisdictions with similar common-law backgrounds and the same liberal democratic traditions as the United Kingdom . |
| 11 | That resistance may also derive strength from a suspicion that improvisation in this context merely exploits our limited knowledge of medieval musical practices in order to establish a creative freedom for modern performers who are denied it in virtually every other kind of ‘ serious ’ music in the Western tradition . |
| 12 | At the same time , in contrast to earlier eras , the housework is more likely to be carried out in isolation , without reference to others or without any external standard of comparison from which she might derive status or recognition for her particular skills as a cook or a housewife . |
| 13 | An individual may not acquire a specific attitude — on how to vote , about race or trade unions — from the mass media , but he/she will derive information from the media which will contribute something to each of these individual areas . |
| 14 | For all but a few types the LOB corpus alone is too small a source from which to reliably derive information about how likely a word is to belong to a particular grammatical category ( many words in the LOB occur just once ) . |
| 15 | Reciprocally , such families may receive financial remittances from their migrating members once they have established themselves , and those left behind may derive prestige in their local community from the successes of their sons in the cities or the new countries . |
| 16 | British audiences may derive enjoyment from laughing at the psychobabble , wincing at the plot contrivances and gaping at the crashingly obvious phallic symbolism , but the movie as a whole goes off at half-Hitchcock . |
| 17 | 4 ) and identify how authorities can derive maximum benefits from EC programmes . |
| 18 | Was it because everything that had been precious to him had been torn from him that he had to find someone to blame for his losses , someone to take advantage of , someone from whom he could derive consolation ? |