Example sentences of "[not/n't] be [verb] from the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The general told a news conference that it had not been copied from the Americans , but because it was an ‘ easier , natural movement ’ .
2 Food , whether as aid or as normal trade , could not be moved from the ports to the people who needed it .
3 She started wondering whether permission might not be sought from the parents for her to give private tuition to Matilda after school .
4 For instance , the words ‘ inshore fishing is n't an easy life ’ might add something which can not be gathered from the pictures alone .
5 For example ; a child can not be swinging from the bannisters at the same time as earning a reward for sitting down and painting .
6 A traditional definition of idiom runs roughly as follows : an idiom is an expression whose meaning can not be inferred from the meanings of its parts .
7 From love the soul learns a thousand manners of culture , such culture as can not be found from the schools .
8 Clean air is an example of non-excludability : if some people incur costs to avoid pollution , those who do not pay can not be excluded from the benefits .
9 My only caveat is that ethnic origin should not be concealed from the selectors , who may find ways to deduce or guess at it .
10 To what extent axon reflexes are involved can not be judged from the results of the present study .
11 It is not the same sort of task as that of the natural scientist in search of hidden causes , because the context of action can not be divorced from the actors ' understanding of the context .
12 As I shall seek to show , however , that culture can not be divorced from the constraints of history and of physical and spatial resources .
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