Example sentences of "derive from " in BNC.

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1 It is said to offer independent hotels the kind of exposure which hotels in big groups can derive from international booking systems — owned , typically , by the big airlines .
2 But this silliness does not derive from what I claimed about what it means to have successful thoughts : it derives from our habit of regarding individual thoughts as if they were like sentences .
3 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 .
4 The majesty of the law does not derive from pomp , but from fear .
5 This public backlash against the shoddy , callous and spivvy aspects of Mrs Thatcher 's administration does not derive from the sense of chronic economic crisis which infected the politics of the 1970s but , rather , is born of prosperity .
6 Mrs Thatcher is one of the few senior politicians who takes pride in stating her political convictions and insists that policies should derive from a coherent set of principles .
7 The name ‘ Hareston ’ may derive from the great granite boulder , now hidden by brambles in a field near the house .
8 The hook is the epitome of angling , and is the origin of the very term ; it does not derive from the deployment of a rod .
9 The attractiveness of dominant females may derive from the advantage accruing to an individual from having a powerful ‘ friend ’ .
10 One consents to the establishment of a political society and to its authority because of the benefits one will derive from its existence .
11 This effect , Honey and Hall ( 1990 ) suggested , might derive from the action of some opponent process that comes into play with the repeated presentation of the shock .
12 The positive transfer that occurred to a subsequent , simultaneous black-white tasks must , therefore , derive from some other source such as an increase in the distinctiveness of the cues .
13 These cell types can derive from several cells well separated in the lineage .
14 These differences may derive from their size , their location , their history , their role ( comprehensive , selective , opted-out , aided , special ) , and the personalities and priorities of their managers and governors .
15 In the matter of the loveless childhood it is possible to see that the measure of the deprivation bears a direct relationship to the measure of uncivilised behaviour that can derive from it .
16 He went on to reject the premise for such an ‘ iron law ’ , since he argued that production would catch up with demand as industry developed , and any disproportions arising would derive from faulty planning .
17 Enjoyment obviously does derive from performing successfully for the side but being determined to enjoy the occasion , be it a wet Northampton Monday or a NatWest Final , should n't be reliant solely on personal success .
18 If you are busy or infirm , the advantage of being able to take a ready-made meal out of the freezer and put it in the microwave where it is cooked in under ten minutes , far outweighs any aesthetic pleasure that purists might derive from lengthy cooking processes .
19 Authority , then , does not derive from competence to carry out tasks .
20 What ‘ untoward ’ consequences could derive from that ?
21 Do they derive from the power of men over women in the domestic arena and/or the labour market , or do they reflect the wishes of the carers themselves , or the assumptions about sex roles embedded in social policies or the ideology of sex-role stereotyping and prevailing ideas of women 's proper place …
22 Finally , with respect to language issues , a variety of debates are still in progress and it is premature to draw firm conclusions ; however , there is some evidence to suggest that bilingualism may actually enhance educational performance ( Houlton , 1986 ) , that in the case of Afro-Caribbean pupils there may well be ‘ dialect interference ’ , although it is clear too that some of the problems here may derive from the negative attitudes of teachers towards Creole ( Edwards , 1979 ) , and that in the case of some Bangladeshi pupils lack of familiarity with English may be an obstacle to academic achievement ( House of Commons Home Affairs Committee , 1986 ) .
23 Why should we not derive from them an understanding which includes a knowledge of both the individual causes of particular social phenomena and the holistic forces underlying them ?
24 The biggest benefit that Italy 's commercial banks will derive from the new rules , however , is the right to make long-term loans .
25 As we have seen , it is our rationality that enables us also to appreciate the personal advantages we would derive from a social contract that promotes self-denial and individual rights .
26 We want now to introduce a different way of categorizing elite theory approaches , one which does not derive from the historical streams of thinking described so far .
27 He recognises at one point that claims for the ‘ intrinsically greater objectivity of written language ’ in literate culture may derive from socially constructed beliefs about what literacy can achieve ( 1982 ) .
28 The Reagan example illustrates the advantages that a president may derive from an effective administrative strategy .
29 Yet the presentation of the book , and Lowry 's text , often speak of a fascination with the Princess that is more than simply the fascination one can derive from the exercise of deconstructing an image .
30 This enhanced sense may derive from the deft , alert response of the musicians to David Lloyd-Jones 's direction , and certainly owes much to the magic of Jack Gibbons 's playing , which becomes the focal point of this performance .
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