Example sentences of "derive from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attractiveness of dominant females may derive from the advantage accruing to an individual from having a powerful ‘ friend ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The travellers ' response to this place was positive and warm , and this does not simply derive from the contrast with the pompous inhospitality they found at Armadale , where they were perhaps disgruntled at staying only in an estate official 's house ( the mansion had been burnt down ) , even if the laird and his lady stayed with them . |
| 4 | The essential point , however , is not what advantage any one party might derive from the WGMS : it is the assurance that unless you choose to give it to some tiny party your second vote will count . |
| 5 | It is appropriate that the first great English opera of modern times should be so deeply English in tone , and should derive from the art which the English have always excelled at — poetry . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Accordingly , the increase in value of the shares does not derive from the removal or variation of a restriction , or the creation or variation of a right , relating to the shares , ie there is no novus actus interveniens which gives rise to the increase in value . |
| 8 | The amount of such compensation is equated to a fair share of the economic benefit which the employer has derived or may derive from the invention which the employee conceived and developed . |
| 9 | His difficulties did not derive from the way he was reared . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Such motivation may derive from the wish to control their own destinies ; the wish to break free from the shackles of group ownership and bureaucratic constraints ; or from a desire to save their own jobs and the jobs of their workforce . |
| 12 | There is no escaping the fact that a trade union will , in pursuit of its purposes as they are commonly understood , have its own corporate policies ; and that the authority of members of a trade union appointed in that capacity to boards of directors of joint stock companies will derive from the trade union . |
| 13 | If a first-line supervisor has a superior , the work of the superior must derive from the supervisor . |
| 14 | A critical impulse could also derive from the clash between Aristotelian dogmatism and a Christian emphasis on the omnipotence of God . |
| 15 | Some of this evidence will derive from the time of the event , some of it will appear in a standard text book , or a more specialised monograph ( see Analytical Reading , p. 10 ) . |
| 16 | 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 … |
| 17 | I shall argue that the attractions of foundationalism , whatever they may be , do not derive from the theory of meaning which underlies it ; in fact , the most acceptable form of theory of meaning is noticeably lacking in the features characteristic of foundationalism , and supports instead an alternative epistemology , coherentism . |
| 18 | Yet it was not a straightforward choice between republic or monarchy , but between a state whose political basis was liberal democratic parliamentarism , and some other kind of system whose legitimacy did not derive from the theory and practice of one person , one vote . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is clear from the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 306 that in appropriate circumstances a company carrying on business in Hong Kong can earn profits which do not arise in or derive from the colony , notwithstanding the fact that those profits are not attributable to an independent overseas branch . |