Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] have inherited from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stefano Tani has already pointed out that Calvino 's idea of observation , within his wider poetic of ‘ seeing ’ , is a different matter from the ‘ impassive and indifferent , basically blind , gaze that we have inherited from the nouveau roman ’ . |
| 2 | Any traces have been obliterated by the advance of the ethos that we have inherited from our Cro-Magnon ancestors . |
| 3 | The hypothesis appears to be that we have inherited from our animal ancestors the habit of discrimination , but have added an additional criterion , namely the conscious calculation of relatedness , to the criteria of propinquity , and perhaps physical and biochemical similarity , used by animals . |
| 4 | He had spent three years building on the excellent co-operation between the Bureau and the Yard that he had inherited from Darrell Mills . |
| 5 | 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 . |