Example sentences of "[vb pp] not from " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is n't so long ago that the advocates of population control were being attacked not from the right but from the left . |
| 2 | He had come not from his own No. 2 dressing-room but from the floor above . |
| 3 | The most telling insights of the election campaign have come not from any of the parties ' hit-men but from that seasoned pro , Sir Robin Day . |
| 4 | But even if it had been believed in Paris , there was a further complication in that the actual renunciation had come not from Leopold but from his father ( whom the Paris papers now labelled ‘ Father Anthony ’ ) , which in itself seemed a curious procedure . |
| 5 | As we shall see , the real advances have come not from research specifically directed towards cancer , but from discoveries made in quite different fields , as wide ranging as electrical discharges in gases , heredity in banana flies , analysis of the spermatozoa of salmon , and the development of instruments of chemical warfare . |
| 6 | Ironically , the Halls ' major income in 1992 has come not from audiences but from recording companies . |
| 7 | Evidence which also points in the same direction has come not from critics but from within the Kandel group itself . |
| 8 | It was low and cracked to begin with , then it rose up the scale , eerily , and shook out its top notes across the damp , half-lit glade until I really did think that my father had come not from the hospital but from some horribly , cold , empty region that lies in wait for us instead of all the heavens we have dreamed up to make things bearable . |
| 9 | My letters were now addressed not from the Middle East Forces , but from the British North African Forces and , moreover , headed 137/166 Newfoundland Regiment , R.A. This quite confused me for I had never heard of Canadians in North Africa — even though I knew that Newfoundland was not really Canada . |
| 10 | Such changes may receive support from cabinet ministers and senior civil servants , but may also be accepted not from conviction but from necessity ; nominal support is essential to ensure finance for a minimum quantity of imports . |
| 11 | And that but al as we said , a proportion of it we believe should be met not from the pension funds , but from the er from , from managers . |
| 12 | The basic principles which have been adopted in these aspects of teaching which Sinclair mentions — ‘ specification of syllabuses , design of materials and choice of method ’ — have been drawn not from particular descriptions of the language but from ideas , assumptions , and beliefs about language in general . |
| 13 | His parallels are drawn not from primates , but from his own work on the advertising art of New Guinea bowerbirds , and the handicap of being a male bird of paradise with a three-foot tail . |
| 14 | As you will see from my strategies — all of which , let me repeat , are derived not from my own beliefs but from what teachers say they actually do — what works for one person may seem quite bizarre to another , and serve only to increase the distress of a third . |
| 15 | Supersede is exceptional , being derived not from cedere but from sedere , and means to ‘ sit upon ’ ; remember this , and you will remember the spelling . |
| 16 | There were n't enough rupees to oil the wheels for those ‘ whose hands are greased not from honest toil ’ , as an Indian newspaper euphemistically described sticky palms . |
| 17 | Such famous errors surely resulted not from incompetence , but from Cortot 's nervous , high-pitched intensity ; a sheer involvement that could easily cloud his composure or unsettle his equilibrium . |
| 18 | This time the illustration is taken not from farming , but from another common industry : fishing . |
| 19 | The military advantage of cruise missiles , however , is that they will be fired not from nuclear bases but from any vantage place on land , particularly on roads . |
| 20 | The carnage endured in the last 20 years or so has mainly arisen not from what we from the mainland have done and/or been alleged to do , but from the conflict brought about by ineradicable sectarian fears and ambitions . |
| 21 | As Figure 8 , below , shows , the pattern of delivery times for this group of material was markedly different from that of ‘ ordinary ’ books probably because 48 of the items ( 87% ) had to be fetched not from the Library 's main areas of stackage , but from locked rooms and cases . |
| 22 | Several recent discussions of social policy have suggested that welfare policies are promulgated not from humanitarian concerns to meet need but as responses to social unrest . |