Example sentences of "have derived from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issue then is how to create viable social roles which maintain the status and security which people may have derived from employment . |
| 2 | Enjoying my fishing , including the enjoyment I would have derived from seeing a friend catch , is more important to me than compiling a longer list of big fish than anyone else . |
| 3 | The fragments of the drama thus enacted — St George , St Patrick , Beelzebub , the Devil and Devil Doit — may have derived from pre-Christian times . |
| 4 | Gandhi 's antipathy to preaching , which was characteristic of the Christian missionary activity he was acquainted with , may have derived from his attitude to mission work in general , but it is more likely that he considered a man 's life to be a more effective testimony to the truth of his religion that his words . |
| 5 | Such new , articulate expression may have derived from the fact that older people in the late 1930s comprised the first fully literate generation and were also members of a cohort which had ‘ acquired trade union habits and organisation ’ . |
| 6 | Callaghan 's mistake may have derived from his own inability to grasp the significance of media images irrespective of how closely they did or did not correlate with some other version of ‘ reality ’ . |
| 7 | To attribute these characteristics to English is not , then , ‘ neutral ’ , even if it may have derived from a genuinely detached ‘ academic ’ inquiry . |
| 8 | The name may have derived from the old British , gala or gwala , describing a full or swiftly flowing stream , though some etymologists think it may be the Cymric gal , meaning ‘ scattered ’ . |
| 9 | Thus the marginal cost of a film is not only the market value of extra meals that could have been produced , but is also the value of the marginal utility consumers would have derived from those meals . |
| 10 | As a Jumièges monk , some of his information may have derived from its former abbot , Robert , who became bishop of London and then in 1051 archbishop of Canterbury , but fled England during the political crisis of 1052 , subsequently returning to Jumièges , where he died . |