Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] derive [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In contrast to this complex and long-established system , which originally derived from the tribal period in early Celtic and Germanic Europe , we find that certain cities and merchants were freed of feudal ties .
2 Having identified the most likely candidates I shall then consider the critical experimental evidence ( which again derives from studies of the role of contextual factors ) .
3 He let Turgenev know that he had enjoyed his Sportsman 's Sketches , but his interest in them probably derived from his love of hunting rather than from the fact that the stories cast aspersions on serfdom .
4 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 ?
5 A new approach must also recognise they also derive from wider non-location-specific political-economic relations , and also in other places that may be far from the affected area .
6 ‘ Generally speaking most tradesmen have some ways peculiar to themselves which they either derived from masters who taught them or from the experience of things or from something in the course of business ’ , but this did not strictly apply to undertakers ,
7 Romans and Jews mill confusingly in the background , like extras on a film set , and if one has any concrete image of them at all , it generally derives from one or another Hollywood spectacular — Pilate complete with Brooklynese accent .
8 But it also derives from sharply differing interpretations of the nature of the Muscovite system .
9 There is some confusion as to the exact origins of the first Apprenticeship and Skilled Employment Committee , but it probably derived from the activities of the Charity Organization Society ( COS ) in assisting women and girls to find skilled occupations .
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