Example sentences of "[vb pp] derive from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ceremony is said to derive from the day in the year 52 when San Barnaba did the same thing outside the walls of Milan to symbolize the city 's conversion to Christianity . |
| 2 | He admits also that Buddhism displayed a tendency to participation as it spread out from India into other countries , though he fails to recognize the examples of participation which might be said to derive from the communal life of the sangha and so insists that it is the principle of identity that predominates . |
| 3 | In many of the cases brought against experts , where full arbitral status did not seem appropriate , the expert 's immunity was said to derive from the fact that the expert 's status was that of a " quasi-arbitrator " , or that the expert was " in the position of an arbitrator " , or that an expert was " in the nature of an arbitrator " . |
| 4 | The bulk of the benefits are seen to derive from the effects of increased competition and lower costs which lead to lower prices , and also stimulate investment . |
| 5 | His unchecked activities are thought to derive from the strong support he enjoys from the Serbian government , which is either unwilling or unable to deactivate him . |
| 6 | The new restrictions were thought to derive from the Prime Minister 's concern at what he saw as the growing influence of " exclusivist " religions such as Christianity and Islam . |
| 7 | The practical effect of this provision is that if an MNP is formed by , say , a merger of a foreign legal firm and an English firm , the firm name used by either may be adopted as the name of the MNP if it is made up of the names of present or former principals who are or were lawyers ; a new name may be used derived from the names of one or more present or former principals of either firm ; a name previously approved by the Council may be used ; or application may be made for approval in writing by the Council of a name which does not otherwise comply with the requirements of rule 11(1) ( A ) . |
| 8 | The second of the views we have noted derives from a claim that the route to indubitable knowledge is not through empirical experience of the external world , but through logical , that is rational , principles which are beyond doubt . |
| 9 | As Canguilhem says , ‘ the efficacy of the psychologist … lacks a firm foundation as long as it can not be proved to derive from the application of a science ( 1980 : 37 ) . |
| 10 | The key point about self-assembly is that the forms generated derive from the nature of the elements that make them up . |
| 11 | I could also appreciate that the bulk of this supposed humour was meant to derive from the anachronism of the play 's sexual mores . |
| 12 | The Official Secrets Act remains substantially intact , but it now has to be read with the additional defences available under the new legislation , happily with a pendant attached deriving from the Aitken case that juries will not stand for the use of oppressive legislation in cases of mild divulgence , and confidentiality has been confirmed as being available where secret information is breached without official justification . |
| 13 | The power of the elite is held to derive from the greater intensity and quality of the sentiments or residues of its members which give its members the will and the ability to maintain their own rule either by force or by consent ( but not usually both , according to Pareto ) . |