Example sentences of "is [adv] derived from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The word is apparently derived from the Germanic dotter or yolk of egg , which is roughly the colour of the common European dodder , and is now used as a common name for all species belonging to the genus Cuscuta . |
| 2 | We must also examine critically the notion that individual practitioners enjoy an autonomy which is somehow derived from that of the collectivity . |
| 3 | Data on accelerated soil erosion in the tropics is generally derived from small experimental plots , with only a few years of data . |
| 4 | Five examples are given below , each of which is easily derived from our existing systems . |
| 5 | The lower unit is characterised by an average porosity of about 13% which is largely derived from vugs produced by leaching of replacement anhydrite . |
| 6 | In English , in fact , graphology is largely derived from phonology : our alphabetic writing system represents , however imperfectly , the sounds of speech , and punctuation , at least in part , duplicates the roles of stress and intonation in spoken discourse . |
| 7 | I puzzled over this one for some time and came to the conclusion that my children 's concept of life is largely derived from fairy stories in which anybody with power is always male . |
| 8 | In the major common law countries , the legal concept of discrimination is largely derived from the disparate treatment and adverse impact analysis of the US Supreme Court in Griggs v Duke Power Co . |
| 9 | Our understanding of the vertical ( as opposed to the horizontal ) movements of the lithosphere during continental rupture is largely derived from the interpretation of the sediments laid down in passive margin basins . |
| 10 | For the moment let us focus on Said 's subsequent point that if Orientalism and anthropology derive from historicism , this is by no means a thing of the past : of more recent sciences , Said singles out in particular that of world history as practised by Braudel , Wallerstein , Anderson and Wolf , which he contends is still derived from the enterprise of Orientalism and its colluding companion anthropology , and which has refused to encounter and to interrogate its own relationship as a discipline to European imperialism . |
| 11 | This order of merit is subjectively derived from an amalgam of the financial performance factors , profitability and solvency . |
| 12 | The ‘ upright ’ signal in the gull is probably derived from an intention movement . |
| 13 | This theory is partly derived from Max Weber 's attempts to relate the rise of capitalism ( the epitome of modern society ) with the Protestant ethic and to show how other different belief systems ( like the religions of the Orient ) inhibited the rise of modern society . |
| 14 | The traditional image of a dinosaur as a slow , lumbering creature is logically derived from what we understand about great body size and weight . |
| 15 | The wrestplank is inverted , the dampers are very similar to those of Cristofori and of Silbermann , and the principle of the hammer rail is clearly derived from the Cristofori-Silbermann tradition . |
| 16 | For its text is clearly derived from Ayres for the Theatre , published in 1697 , in which it appeared without trumpet parts but with one or two tell-tale misprints . |
| 17 | Thus , the ‘ humanitarianism ’ that informs his programme is also derived from selfish , rational motives ; it stems from the fact that , since we can imagine ourselves breaking the contract , we can also imagine ourselves being the objects of punishment . |
| 18 | This benefit is also derived from the plaintiff at the uncle 's request , if the promise of the annuity was intended as an inducement to the marriage ; and the averment that the plaintiff , relying on the promise , married , is an averment that the promise was one inducement to the marriage . |
| 19 | As habitus , this distinction between the Kantian and anti-Kantian aesthetic is both derived from material conditions , and in turn provides an insight into a classificatory scheme which may be applied to an infinite number of actual material and consumption domains . |
| 20 | A good third of the stock of any hardware retail shop in Nairobi is now derived from this source . |
| 21 | More than half the company 's turnover is now derived from overseas . |
| 22 | This industrial wood accounts for 20 per cent of Nigeria 's wood consumption while the other 80 per cent is consumed as fuelwood which is mainly derived from the more northerly savanna zones . |
| 23 | It responds everywhere to one and the same need , and is everywhere derived from one and the same mental state . |
| 24 | If Bach 's Magnificat is a supreme product of the high-Baroque , then Kuhnau 's work is firmly derived from Monteverdian post-modalism and formal procedures . |
| 25 | Glycogen is produced from complex carbohydrate , and therefore the energy required for training is ultimately derived from the complex carbohydrates you eat . |
| 26 | The term is ultimately derived from the Greek ‘ khoros ’ , a dance , the modern ‘ chorus ’ arriving because the dancers in Greek theatre sang out the repetitive bits and encouraged the audience to join in . |
| 27 | Freeman constructs a highly schematic reading of King Lear in terms of a cognitive theory of metaphor , which views metaphor as a mapping from a source domain which is ultimately derived from bodily experience onto a target domain which is more abstract ( Lakoff 1987 , 1989 ) . |
| 28 | Pigeons can home in familiar areas by remembered cues and a compass sense that is primarily derived from the position of the sun . |
| 29 | Food could be turned into energy via respiration , in which glucose is either derived from food or from photosynthesis . |
| 30 | Just on a point of er clarification , the villages or settlements I should say , that I 've indicated on the er plan which is included within my statement , er is actually derived from the Selby rural areas local plan , which defines settlements and I believe the County Council have used a similar erm listing of erm settlements within that those two sectors for their own exercise when they looked at this particular subject er criteria . |