Example sentences of "but from an " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a very neatly packaged piece of disinformation planted on Pincher that carried added credibility since it did not come from a government source but from an opposition Privy Councillor . |
| 2 | But from an early age , for some reason , I rebelled . |
| 3 | Attacks on the occupant 's blood-pressure can come nowadays , not from an overbearing monarch , but from an apparently limitless number of rebellious back-benchers , trying to establish control , or at least scrutiny , over a series of increasingly overbearing executives . |
| 4 | What is apparent to everyone , however , is the deteriorating state of the city itself , not only from an archaeological viewpoint but from an urban one , and specifically where traffic circulation is concerned . |
| 5 | But from an original total of about one million Austrian soldiers , more than 350,000 were lost , as were 300 guns . |
| 6 | The success which eluded her in the classroom did arrive but from an unexpected quarter . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The earliest temple-sculpture we possess is not from a Doric temple but from an attempt to monumentalise the old form . |
| 9 | Because he , he just has you know a very slap happy er attitude towards finance , but from an engineering point of view you can trust him |
| 10 | Ecology emerged not from Darwinism , but from an extension of physiology into the realm of the organism 's relationship to its surroundings . |
| 11 | Wycliffe was startled by the question , which did not come from Sarah but from an old lady who sat on the far side of the fire . |
| 12 | Perhaps then the current expanding universe resulted not from a big bang singularity , but from an earlier contracting phase ; as the universe had collapsed the particles in it might not have all collided , but had flown past and then away from each other , producing the present expansion of the universe . |