Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] have inherited from " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the women 's movement now this is one of the most important issues we have to deal with — our relationships with each other and the eradication of all the oppressions we have inherited from capitalist patriarchy . |
| 2 | They used the technique of research they had inherited from their predecessors . |
| 3 | Churchill hoped to make a start towards the reconciliation of these objectives with an already over-burdened economy by making cuts to the defence programme he had inherited from Labour . |
| 4 | It diagnosed the main weaknesses in the schools it had inherited from earlier decades and set out its alternative vision , a Primary Needs Programme intended to meet children 's needs by transforming schools into exemplars of ‘ good primary practice ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't need , perhaps , to underline to you the temptation that faced Mr Stratton , himself a virtually penniless man , and a man who knew for such seems to be the case — that his wife had run through almost all of the considerable money she had inherited from her first husband . ’ |
| 7 | If somebody failed to come up to her own high standards the directness she had inherited from her Australian background meant they would soon know . |
| 8 | With the handing over to the Council of Europe in 1960 of the social and cultural responsibilities it had inherited from the Treaty of Brussels , it seemed that to all intents and purposes WEU had become moribund . |
| 9 | In 1968 the Council moved from the premises in Park Crescent it had inherited from the NCTA to larger offices in Devonshire Street ( formerly occupied by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He was far more at home in jeans and a sweater or the favourite scuffed old flying jacket he had inherited from his father , who had been a Spitfire pilot in the war and he wore them whenever he could . |
| 12 | I should know — playing ostrich is a habit I 've inherited from him ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The reciprocity between these sets of conceptions ‘ in the mind ’ can only perpetuate within the psyche of the individual worker and manager the images of authority they have inherited from their relationships with people who had authority over them in the past . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | His father had died and he bought the property with money he 'd inherited from the estate . |
| 17 | ‘ In his profession he found a force stronger than the temperament he had inherited from his family ; instead of surrendering to his natural instincts he followed a clear , straight path , and did not slide into the wretched muddle in which all the other Rougons perished . ’ |
| 18 | Shortly after her ninetieth birthday she died at West Cross , Swansea , 13 December 1935 , leaving a personal fortune of £112,000 , almost exactly equalling the debt she had inherited from her father over forty years earlier . |
| 19 | During this period following the collapse of Roman rule in the West , sometimes still called the ‘ dark ages ’ , Western Christians rethought the culture they had inherited from the ancient world . |
| 20 | By the age of 19 he controlled a company he had inherited from his father . |
| 21 | They were in the sitting-room of Isobel 's little house , the house she had inherited from her mother . |