Example sentences of "have evolved from " in BNC.

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1 It has evolved from the simplest folk through the mannered court and finally to the expert classical dance .
2 A geometry of curves has evolved from attempts to solve the spacial problems of engineers , architects and astronomers in terms of the physical , sensory and emotional properties of lines .
3 Psychometric evaluation has evolved from the psychological discipline .
4 Situated on the edge of the attractive village of Tiffield , Ark Farm has evolved from a number of farms over the last 30 years .
5 Now in its 25th year , the Crisis Open Christmas campaign has evolved from being a small-scale soup kitchen into an extremely sophisticated operation .
6 RSPB regional officer Tony Prater said the formation of Birdlife International , which has evolved from the Cambridge-based International Council for Bird Preservation , would have enormous significance for global nature conservation .
7 The CONGRESS OF UNIVERSITY CONVOCATIONS AND GRADUATE ASSOCIATIONS ( CUCGA ) , constituted in 1989 , has evolved from the Conference of University Convocations ( CUC ) .
8 Our constitutional order has evolved from the position where an absolute monarch was supreme , to the current position where Parliament is legislatively supreme .
9 The Soviet view of neutralisation in the 1970s and 1980s has evolved from the legalistic and Eurocentric notion of neutralisation which Eastern and Western statesmen held in common in earlier decades and sought to apply to particular disputes .
10 They have charted complex changes since 1000 BC , showing that even in the last 1500 years the area has evolved from a series of tidal inlets , through the development of spits and dunes , to the triangular area that it is today , with the vast recent pebble dumps of Dungeness .
11 This revitalised industry which is now centred in the USA has resulted in a new type of cruise ship which has evolved from the special requirements of the newer cruise companies and their clientele and is epitomised by the Ectasy which entered service in June 1991 .
12 BirdLife International has evolved from the International Council for Bird Preservation , which was founded in 1922 and pioneered international co-operation in bird conservation .
13 The technology has evolved from operations already carried out at coastal sites in Scotland in which lengths of oil and gas pipelines are made into bundles which are towed offshore at control depths for installation at oil and gasfields .
14 Such cells may have evolved from a coming-together of prokaryotes .
15 However , James Valentine of the University of California suggests worms may have evolved from arthropods ( jointed-legged creatures ) rather than the other way around , because they had cavities in their middle layer ( known as coeloms ) which they used as skeletons to support themselves when burrowing .
16 Although the bird was native to America , its name may have evolved from the days when turkey was first distributed in England by Turkish merchants .
17 But Hankamer 's idea is more appropriate to the ‘ evolution ’ of fully fledged languages , a process of interest in its own right but somewhat peripheral to the project of accounting for how more complex linguistic structures might have evolved from simpler ones .
18 Molluscs may have evolved from a flatworm-like ancestor independently of the annelids , but molecular evidence supports the possibility of an annelid link .
19 The theories discussed below may have evolved from different assumptions , but it is still difficult to discriminate completely between them .
20 The three species of bee seem so closely related that they must have evolved from a single carrion-eating ancestor .
21 Humankind and the apes shared the vertebrate form because both were created by God , but Owen could stress the anatomical differences in order to make it clear that the one could never have evolved from the other .
22 Darwin believed that very similar species , such as those grouped into a single genus , would have evolved from a fairly recent common ancestor .
23 It was obvious that the fish — the ‘ lowest ’ class within the vertebrate phylum — must have evolved from a pre-existing invertebrate form , yet this had occurred before fossils became plentiful in the rocks .
24 Desmond Morris later drew attention to several signals that resemble activities produced by the autonomic nervous system such as auditory signals ( shouts ) that may have evolved from rapid automatic breathing , and even the scent-marking by urine at territory boundaries in mammals .
25 Thus the present smooth and uniform state of the universe could have evolved from many different nonuniform initial states .
26 Multimedia will have evolved from a technological issue into a metaphysical one .
27 Herodotus , the Greek , claimed that the Etruscans who held the centre of Italy had migrated from the Middle East , while another Greek , Dionysius of Halicarnassus , argued for a lineage that was home-spun , the Etruscan having evolved from tribes that were contemporaries of the Golasecca people .
28 The world of PCs is one of rapid change and technological improvement , having evolved from nothing to its current state in little more than 12 years .
29 Flaubert was emblematic of a further development in modernization , in which the referent of the work of art , having evolved from the timeless and ideal to the contingent , now had moved from contingency to virtual insignificance .
30 The new is made comfortable by being made familiar since it is seen as having evolved from the forms of the past . ’
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