Example sentences of "[vb past] not from " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was that the most innovative proposal in the Criminal Justice Bill presented to Parliament on 10 November 1971 stemmed not from the Tory manifesto , nor from Crime Has No Boundaries , but from an official committee chaired by a Labour life-peer . |
| 2 | Strangely enough these stemmed not from any hostility towards Doctor Who the concept all three were thoroughly supportive of the format — only from reservations Wilson and Newman had about the way Verity Lambert and David Whitaker were interpreting their prodigy . |
| 3 | They trembled not from fear , but from anger and resentment which had built up rapidly in the 24 hours since he had heard the ridiculous order from Washington . |
| 4 | It is significant that one of the first major published attacks on Indirect Rule was written by a Northern Nigeria DO , Walter Crocker , whose animus against the system clearly arose not from disagreement with its basic principles but from the fact that DOs were allowed so little responsibility within it . |
| 5 | In a way the camera obscura can be a rather misleading metaphor , for the obscurity of the camera arose not from its images but its mechanisms ; in fact , Victorians were charmed by the sharpness and , indeed , accuracy of the images thrown onto the screen by the camera obscura . |
| 6 | Thus Turner has written that the sporadic appearance of trade unionism arose not from the absence of collective association but from the " intermittence " of the actual need for collective action " . |
| 7 | The flaw in his Near Eastern policy arose not from its objectives , which were peaceable , but from the secrecy with which all foreign policies were conducted in the nineteenth century and which often prevented the Great Powers from understanding each other . |
| 8 | Unlike the Church of England , Nonconformity suffered not from too few but from too many candidates . |
| 9 | ‘ The play suffered not from wrong direction , but from wrong production , ’ he maintains and firmly lays the fault at the door of the H. M. Tennent organization . |
| 10 | The power of the Establishment came not from the fact that a few dozen people imposed their will on the rest of us , but from the fact that for a long time we felt it right that the opinions of such people should have respectful attention paid to them . |
| 11 | The dangers to the Thatcher regime , it appeared , came not from revolts or putsches on the back benches . |
| 12 | Lewis immediately guessed that this suggestion came not from Chavasse but from his Aunt Lily , and in the irrational way that such family meddling irritates , this prompted an extraordinary flow of anger . |
| 13 | In many ways the stimulus for this came not from the miners but from the wool and worsted textile workers who fought against further wage reductions in 1925 . |
| 14 | As it turned out the problem came not from the Opposition but from our own side . |
| 15 | The greatest single expenditure on a Nonconformist chapel came not from the Congregationalists but from the Baptists and not in England but in Scotland . |
| 16 | This was when the need to live together came not from the older generation , but from the child 's own family . |
| 17 | Surprisingly , the opposition to ‘ William It Was Really Nothing ’ came not from an older generation ( who , obviously were n't even aware of the record ) but from the feminist movement long since supported and admired by Morrissey . |
| 18 | All the judges emphasized that the danger of disorder came not from the CND marchers but rather from the fact that ‘ [ h ] ooligans and others might attack the police who were doing their duty in escorting a peaceful procession ’ ( Lord Denning ) . |
| 19 | The initial impetus for the rethink came not from the officials but from Sir Stafford Cripps in the summer of 1946 . |
| 20 | In the 18 years 1798–1815 inclusive , for each million tons sold there were 0.62 explosions and approximately 11 deaths ; in 1817–1834 inclusive the cost was 0.68 explosions , a 10 per cent increase , but with the loss of only 8.7 lives : for 1839–1844 , this had fallen further to 6.5 lives , But the three periods are not easily comparable ; the new production came not from the old collieries described but from new and ever deeper ones to the south and east made accessible after 1815 by steam-and-gravity operated railways . |
| 21 | The material which Ivanov accumulated and interpreted came not from closeted sources but from publicly available journals , technical newspapers and magazines , and house publications such as British Aerospace News . |
| 22 | Aye , until d'Arquebus knew bitterly — and until others recognized scornfully — the sham of his valour , which came not from Dorn at all , but was really no more than the flip-side of his former high-hab extravagance … |
| 23 | In continental Europe , however , the union assault came not from workplace-based craft organisations but from centralised and more politicised trade unions . |
| 24 | Whatever authority it had , came not from the power of the speaker — he had none in the conventional sense — but from the cogency and relevance of what he said and the hope it inspired . |
| 25 | He chanced to find an identical skull in Cambridge which , to his surprise , came not from Egypt but from the Chatham Islands , near New Zealand . |
| 26 | The most effective ideological influences came not from evangelical social reform but from more complex processes by which elements similar to those of the ruling ideology were produced from deeply felt experiences of the class itself . |
| 27 | But the danger of a centre party came not from McKenna but from the Unionist ex-Coalitionists , led by Austen Chamberlain , who had twice previously been Chancellor , and who , if he was to be brought back into the fold , would clearly require some substantial offer . |
| 28 | The most dramatic proposal for co-operation , however , came not from Spaak and Monnet , the so-called ‘ fathers of Europe ’ , but from the Dutch foreign minister , Johan Beyen . |
| 29 | Equally , hostility towards peasants who had left the commune came not from a proletarianized peasantry presaging a movement beyond capitalism to socialized large-scale farming , but from ‘ traditional ’ households who desired a redistribution of the land amassed by their more successful neighbours . |
| 30 | When it came to slum clearance , opposition came not from slum landlords but from the residents themselves . |