Example sentences of "have inherited from " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , wrote Goldberg , turning the page and tearing it slightly in his eagerness to go on , my son is rather short-sighted , something he has inherited from his mother , and recently , during a school trip to Dieppe , he dropped his glasses and cracked one of the lenses . |
| 2 | But Women Against the Ordination of Women said : ‘ We do not believe the Synod or Parliament has authority to make such a change in the ministry which the Church of England has inherited from the ancient Church . ’ |
| 3 | The legacy of Descartes comes in for further scrutiny in Joanna Hodge 's paper , which examines the concept of ‘ the subject ’ which philosophy has inherited from Descartes . |
| 4 | Even if there existed a uniform nationwide trend in the birth and death rates of each population sub-group identified on the basis of sex , age , occupation , ethnic status and so on , local populations would still develop differently from one another , and from the ‘ national ’ trend , because these rates would be operating on the distinctive demographic structures which each locality has inherited from its past histories of fertility , mortality and migration . |
| 5 | His father had died and he bought the property with money he 'd inherited from the estate . |
| 6 | Belief in the cyclical nature of the universe found its apotheosis in the concept of the Great Year , which the Greeks may have inherited from the Babylonians . |
| 7 | When humans arrived , the dove demonstrated a behaviour pattern that it must have inherited from its ancient ancestors and kept in storage ever since . |
| 8 | All the Burrows children were " born energetic " , a characteristic they seem to have inherited from their parents . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | we 've inherited from the states and er replicating throughout throughout throughout the U K and into Europe . |
| 11 | I should know — playing ostrich is a habit I 've inherited from him ! |
| 12 | What had happened to the old thrifty , puritanical streak which Middle America had inherited from the pioneers ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Inanna had inherited from her mother a particular form of behaviour to use when she was anxious or did n't want to do something . |
| 15 | While she had inherited from her father , and the stallion 's father before him , a stubborn and cussed temperament . |
| 16 | By the age of 19 he controlled a company he had inherited from his father . |
| 17 | Henceforth , the English Churches were to have the advantages of the unity and discipline that the Church of Rome had inherited from the Empire . |
| 18 | He had inherited from Walter Luff an undertaking whose proud boast was that it had contributed £454,361 in rate relief during his management . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He had spent three years building on the excellent co-operation between the Bureau and the Yard that he had inherited from Darrell Mills . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 23 | Anselm fought for it with a tenacity which is only explicable if the whole scene which we have briefly surveyed is borne in mind : the primacy was the brightest of the dreams which the monks of Canterbury had inherited from their largely silent , ever-beckoning past , and on this question Anselm fell under the spell of the awe-inspiring tradition which he had helped to preserve . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They were in the sitting-room of Isobel 's little house , the house she had inherited from her mother . |
| 27 | Meanwhile the controllers and their senior staff fulminated against excessive interference from both engineers and administrators at headquarters , who , in their view , lacked the experience of power station design , construction , and operation which the divisions themselves had inherited from the local undertakings . |
| 28 | So many exceptions had been made to earlier Navigation Acts by royal licence that it had sometimes looked as if they were intended to raise revenue rather than to direct trade , and in the 1660s there had been a few signs that the legislation which Charles had inherited from the Republic and had then extended might still be treated in the same way . |
| 29 | William Boys of Battle , worth £30 in goods , had inherited from his father a lucrative business employing several waggoners and assistants , plus a leading position in the town hierarch . |
| 30 | The plan which Henry still had in mind was for his eldest son to take all of those lands which he himself had inherited from his father and mother , i.e. Anjou , Maine , Normandy and England , while Richard should have the land which he had acquired by virtue of his marriage to Eleanor . |