Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] inherited [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one of the most persistent and pernicious myths we 've inherited from Descartes is that mentality is essentially conscious , so that anything we ca n't introspect ca n't really be going on in our mind . |
| 2 | Education officials readily admitted that a decade of Sandinista rule had not yet resolved ‘ the cultural problem we have inherited of women being relegated to second place ’ . |
| 3 | And how can we account for its appearance now when less than two years ago , Reagan and his government-shrinking colleagues attempted an across-the-board 12-per cent blood-letting on the research and development budget they had inherited from Jimmy Carter ? |
| 4 | The Nauruan government , which was unhappy at being forced to pay A$21,000,000 for the phosphate facilities which it had inherited after independence from the British Phosphate Commissioners ( BPC — established by the governments of the Australia , New Zealand and United Kingdom ) never accepted that the matter had been settled . |
| 5 | The agreement sought to break down Ford 's rigid bureaucratic system of categorizing semi-skilled production work and the craft demarcations it had inherited from craft unionism . |
| 6 | He had spent three years building on the excellent co-operation between the Bureau and the Yard that he had inherited from Darrell Mills . |
| 7 | Rance quickly decided that the Executive Council he had inherited from Dorman-Smith was useless while most of the senior British officials seemed to lack any ideas . |
| 8 | He had inherited from Walter Luff an undertaking whose proud boast was that it had contributed £454,361 in rate relief during his management . |
| 9 | It compounds still further those two legacies so actively conjoined since the previous summer of 1837 : the historical , biogeographical ( including ecological ) concerns that he had inherited from Lyell , and the generational concerns deriving from his study with Grant and subsequent reading in Erasmus Darwin . |
| 10 | From 1865 to 1871 he lived on the estates he had inherited in Scotland , and then spent his last years at Cambridge . |
| 11 | He came from a comparatively well established family — the baronetcy he had inherited after Harrow and Oxford had been created in 1943 . |