Example sentences of "[not/n't] from [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That turned out to be a mistake , Zeta 's neutrons were not from thermonuclear fusion . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Reynolds wanted new consultants from business schools and commerce or industry , not from other headhunting firms . |
| 4 | What really sets Mr Thaksin apart is that he comes not from southern China but from Chiang Mai in northern Thailand . |
| 5 | Holt is not surprised that many football hooligans come , not from lower-working-class housing estates , but from the affluent suburbs and new towns away from the major conurbations : ‘ When a group have lost their old territory in which their traditions were established , football provides a symbolic substitute for the young in the heart of the old community ’ ( ibid.:339 ) . |
| 6 | Responsibility for lighthouses was later shifted to Trinity House , a quasi-public body , but lighthouses continued to be financed by ‘ light dues ’ collected from ships , not from general taxation . |
| 7 | In a few cases , there was a decline in quantitative HIV culture from plasma ( but not from peripheral blood mononuclear cells ) . |
| 8 | In his lecture ‘ Le Cubisme écartelé ’ given at the Section d'Or on 11 October and later added to Les Peintres Cubistes when the book was already in proof , Apollinaire divided Cubism into four categories , Orphism being the most advanced : ‘ It is the art of painting new harmonies out of elements borrowed not from visual reality but created entirely by the artist and endowed by him with a powerful presence . |
| 9 | Every technical device and dramatic trick was blatantly obvious this time through , and yet there was still a lot of delight , not from smug recognition of prize kitsch , but for a good yarn well told with the perfect characterisation of Albert Sharpe in the title role . |
| 10 | We had been childhood friends , not from deep affection , or even from admiration , but because we were the same sort of person and trusted one another . |
| 11 | Within the Review , which was the scholarly organ of this establishment , the capacity to make value discriminations was assumed to arise from the " taste and tact " associated with gentlemanly breeding , fortified by " zeal , devotion and learning " rather than " critical ingenuity " , In contrast to this , the voice of Scrutiny represented a new petit-bourgeois presence within professional English studies whose source of cultural authority derived , not from gentlemanly taste and tact , but from the pulse of their own sensibility ; from their " intelligent " and " discriminating " capacity to " enforce " their value judgements . |
| 12 | His case , as described by Charles Dickens , was probably typical in arising not from sinister intent or even negligence , but from pure confusion . |
| 13 | In continental Europe , however , the union assault came not from workplace-based craft organisations but from centralised and more politicised trade unions . |
| 14 | ‘ The play suffered not from wrong direction , but from wrong production , ’ he maintains and firmly lays the fault at the door of the H. M. Tennent organization . |
| 15 | Its branches fork from an implanted bud just above ground level and normally make 2–4ft ( 0.6–1.2m ) high , although — and this has to be said — too often encouraged by incorrect and only partial pruning that permits new growth to break not from near ground level but from 1ft ( 0.3m ) , 2ft ( 0.6m ) , or even higher , they are frequently to be seen consisting of younger bloom bearing growth on top of old barky stems , the whole reaching 5ft ( 1.5m ) , even 6ft ( 1.8m ) , or more in height . |
| 16 | I am in fact not from retail training . |
| 17 | Finally , HCO 3 - secretion may result not from direct activation of acid-base transport systems but from movement of weak acids in their protonated form in the opposite direction , that is from lumen to cell . |
| 18 | The accommodation described is intended to meet the needs of confused elderly patients who are suffering from a dementing illness but not from gross behaviour disorders or severe physical disability . |
| 19 | She wrote from the shanty-towns , not from air-conditioned hotel rooms . |
| 20 | Er in fact most of the radiation we get in fact is not from nuclear power , it 's from erm man made sourc it 's from , from natural sources eighty seven percent of the population as an average comes from our natural environment a lot comes from radon gas erm a small amount of radioactivity in our food erm we were discussing at er er lunch in , in fact the benefits of , of eating er low sodium salt salt is meant to be bad for you so the health er er er freaks say and it 's the sodium , therefore you should buy low sodium salt which is calcium chloride rather than sodium chloride what they forget to tell you of course is that potassium er sorry it 's , it 's potassium chloride rather than er than s than sodium chloride , what they forget , forget to tell you of course is that potassium is slightly radioactive it contains erm a small amount of , of a naturally occurring radioactive potassium so you get a small dose of radiation er to compensate for the fact you are n't eating any sodium . |
| 21 | innovation flows from the application of theoretical knowledge , not from random invention ; |
| 22 | As she went on talking , making occasional references to the length of my fingers or the breadth of my brow , I thought it ironical that this odd woman should be defending me , not from outright attack but from my mother 's protectiveness . |