Example sentences of "not from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Americans knew far too much about the reality of strikes to accept a film in which , in the words of James Shelley Hamilton , ‘ the trouble arises not from working conditions but from a professional trouble-maker and is solved not according to any principles but by an act of sheer moronic terrorism ’ . |
| 2 | Malgosia , it turned out , is not from Warsaw , but from Lotz , an hundred and twenty kilometres away . |
| 3 | They produce this silk not from spinnerets at the end of the abdomen as spiders do , but from a pair of glands in the mouth . |
| 4 | I know — they 're not from Manchester ! ! |
| 5 | I know — they 're not from Manchester ! ! |
| 6 | We began to prepare a show which became Pierrot In Turquoise — turquoise because it 's the British symbol of everlastingness and David claims that I saved him — not from Buddhism , not from everlastingness , but from becoming a Tibetan monk . |
| 7 | The question that the senior , the middle management staff will propose the authority , has been drawn almost exclusive , exclusively from North East and the Mid-Essex health authorities and not from West Essex . |
| 8 | Speaking as one of them , I can tell this person that I am a single mother , not from choice , but because my baby 's father scarpered as soon as I told him I was pregnant . |
| 9 | The lack of provision of income maintenance for those with part-time earnings stems from a failure to recognise that most women work part-time not from choice , nor because their earnings are inessential , but because their employment opportunities are severely constrained by their family commitments . |
| 10 | She never had children of her own : ‘ Not from choice , not at all . |
| 11 | Not from choice , you understand , but because Melanie withdrew her favours as a punishment when I would n't relent about the move to Wales . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A specially-built Ferrari is being entered privately for the gruelling Le Mans ( 24 ) Twenty Four hour race by an engineering team … not from Italy … but from the Forest of Dean . |
| 14 | If the murderer was not from Godstowe , and any normal outsider would have been noticed , perhaps there 's a third possibility ? ’ |
| 15 | This means that it can , in theory , rise from anywhere south of latitude 37 degrees north ; it can be seen from Alexandria , but not from Athens , so providing an early proof that the world is not flat ! |
| 16 | If there were games to be played or work to be done or stories to be read it was always to Rachel that she would turn ; Rachel who went out and came in when she said she would and said ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ , not from whim or temper , but with authority . |
| 17 | No doubt he was safe from enemies , but not from fate . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Most of the relevant experimental evidence on this issue comes not from studies of latent inhibition but from investigations of conditioning itself . |
| 20 | The first was not so much Offa 's death on 26 or 29 July 796 ( ASC D , s.a. 796 ) as the death of Ecgfrith , his successor , 141 days later ( ASC A , s.a. 755 ) which threatened all that Offa had struggled to achieve within Mercia and created dynastic uncertainty at the centre of the Mercian polity as royal power was assumed by Coenwulf , a prince claiming descent not from Eowa or Penda but from a certain Coenwealh , allegedly in the genealogies a brother of Eowa and Penda ( see Appendix , Fig. 8 ) . |
| 21 | On this occasion , CTL to ls6 were again grown from Z 1 but not from Z 16 . |
| 22 | Only very occasionally is it possible to read between the lines , as in one instance at South Luffenham , where Henry Bonytt , as the sole tenant of freeholder Edward Sapcote , presumably held a lease ; he also had 10s. a year in land and a subtenant called William Clark , who must mutatis mutandis have held from him by lease , if not from year to year . |
| 23 | The tenancy was not from year to year but for a term which would continue until Matlodge certified that it was ready to proceed with the development of the property . |
| 24 | Although Adsersen ( 1989 ) believes that the major threat to conservation is not from tourism but from land-use via agriculture and sand and gravel extraction , there is still much cause for concern , especially if hotels and tourist resorts are developed . |
| 25 | We began to prepare a show which became Pierrot In Turquoise — turquoise because it 's the British symbol of everlastingness and David claims that I saved him — not from Buddhism , not from everlastingness , but from becoming a Tibetan monk . |
| 26 | ‘ Not from spite . |
| 27 | It is fair to state that Christianity as we know it today derives ultimately not from Jesus 's time , but from the Council of Nicaea . |
| 28 | There were four headmasters and they From Not from Girran because there was only the one high school , but from er Prestwick , Glenbuck and that , and the used to meet on a Saturday at Turnbelly to play golf . |
| 29 | At the peak it made a fortune — not from building houses or office blocks but from land inflation . |
| 30 | 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 . |