Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earliest steam-pumps of Thomas Newcomen and others in the eighteenth century were not erected from the kind of detailed and accurate drawings customary by the nineteenth . |
| 2 | So in the past , when we were not shielded from moonlight , it may have had an effect . |
| 3 | In typical Hughes fashion , the machine was not flown from 1939 to 1947 , initially defying the US Army to impress it . |
| 4 | Two striking differences from British and American assemblies were noticeable : top government officials were not disbarred from being deputies , the deputies were all part-timers who held another full-time job . |
| 5 | André Gide 's Les Fauxmonnayeurs ( 1926 ) , a novel characterized by self-reflexivity and self-consciousness , in which the device of mise en abyme ( or internal duplication ) is especially conspicuous , has perhaps not received from them the kind of attention that could be expected . |
| 6 | Dost stressed that ‘ so far the Government of the DRA has not received from the EEC or from any other organ any proposal in connection with the so-called ‘ conference on Afghanistan ’ ’ . |
| 7 | This French breed , which produces high-fat milk , was probably not distinguished from other breeds of northwest France until the nineteenth century , including the Contentin type ( later absorbed by the Normandy breed ) , which probably also came to the islands , and the now-extinct brindled Isigny draught breed of Normandy , which was also a famous butter-maker but much larger than the Léon and with horns which curved forward and inward rather than outward and backward . |
| 8 | From this point of view , professional is not distinguished from amateur by any intrinsic features of the activity , nor by differences in skill , but solely by relationship to the market . |
| 9 | Living meant constant activity to obtain food , shelter and clothing , and the way of life was an integrated one in which work was not distinguished from leisure , and every activity contributed towards the survival of the individual and the community . |
| 10 | Travellers are often forced to live in exposed public situations where social inequality and harsh conditions are not hidden from more affluent members of society as they would be in an outlying council estate or an inner city back street . |
| 11 | First , the cycle time of the various parts of the computer are not hidden from the microprogrammer , as they are from the conventional programmer . |
| 12 | Long , regimented hours , more formal discipline and danger from unguarded machinery all imply differences in form and intensity which were not hidden from medical men who were familiar with the early factories . |
| 13 | Hence , the requirement for very large rates of return is not justified from a shareholder-wealth viewpoint . |
| 14 | Because of this the Judaeo-Christian world-view recognises the need to create political and economic structures which ensure that the family is not debarred from a permanent interest in economic life . |
| 15 | Still , we are not debarred from attempting to conceive of an indeterminate object or content . |
| 16 | Women are not debarred from any legal statuses which are held by men , as they were in the last century . |
| 17 | Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion . |
| 18 | Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion . |
| 19 | She had not heard from her husband , a policeman in Bosnia , for two days . |
| 20 | The Official Receiver has not heard from the family and has no idea where they are , but assumes they are on the road . |
| 21 | He had been sent to the school when a small child and had not heard from them since . |
| 22 | He had not written much since The Complete History of Wimbledon and that book 's rejection by ten publishers ( he had still not heard from The Applecote Press , Chewton Mendip ) had made him a little nervous of putting pen to paper , but he found that if he emptied his mind of everything and forced his hand to fist a biro and then forced that biro across a sheet of paper , some pretty profound and interesting thoughts resulted . |
| 23 | His father had even telephoned his ex-wife to tell her about what had happened and she had then spoken to Tony , who had not heard from her for some months . |
| 24 | Rick 's old agent , however , had not heard from him in ten years , and could neither confirm nor deny the rumour . |
| 25 | If you sent your work to a publisher and have not heard from them for two months , you should write to ask them whether or not they intend to publish it . |
| 26 | Monika , 27 , has not heard from the Bolton-born priest since the birth . |
| 27 | Despite leaving numerous messages with his assistant and wife , she still had not heard from him . |
| 28 | It was a raw , strangely sexual laugh ; one he had not heard from her before . |
| 29 | I 've written to him , I 've not heard from him yet suggesting you know er say that we 'd like to have a seminar afternoon . |
| 30 | Women left behind by the emigrants , ‘ widows ’ who had not heard from their husbands for decades , daughters growing up without fathers , without grandfathers , without brothers -once they too were old enough to leave — were hungry for men , everyone knew that , and the law made its profits from the devils — Greed and Lust and Envy — that scampered among humans playing a deadly tag in which all the players are caught and brought down , one by one . |