Example sentences of "but from " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd say , moreover , that you could always get out of a boat and go ashore , but from that height you could only crash . |
| 2 | But from the inward motion to deliver |
| 3 | They are thus not simply a mentality derived from popular religion but from a traditional Roman catholicism which held sway in catholic Europe from the post-Reformation period and remained unchallenged until the 1960s . |
| 4 | Lobster thermidor does not take its name from the hotness of the sauce , but from a month of the French revolutionary calendar . |
| 5 | ‘ It will mean tests , of course , but from his appearance and what Catlett described , I 'd say cyanide . |
| 6 | He had come not from his own No. 2 dressing-room but from the floor above . |
| 7 | ‘ I mean , I can understand you not wanting to go into a hostel , but from what you 're saying , a flat 's the sort of thing you want , is n't it ? ’ |
| 8 | In some cases the disqualification is not only from a particular event within a tournament , but from the whole tournament . |
| 9 | Masha Cohen also knew of such things , not in the same way , but from her own very different experiences as a young girl whose family had been harassed and hounded in the anti-semitic agitations that rent Poland . |
| 10 | Layton described the four things which stand out in Leonard , which give him the confidence to work as he does , and promote his work : The strong tradition of learning ; the business entrepreneurship of his family ; the broad philanthropy/charity which hall-marked it ; and , lastly , the self-awareness that comes from being a Cohen — not understood as class-distinction , but from the high symbolism of ‘ the priest and his role . ’ |
| 11 | It is in its form as a general theory of cognition that the behaviouristic approach is most clearly refutable , but from the general refutation we can refute its application to perception . |
| 12 | But from the perspective of constructivism — which is a general theory of how cognisance is possible and how it develops — the immediate ‘ information-processing ’ shortcomings that lead to the failure to relate one 's actions to objects is not relevant . |
| 13 | From a functionalist perspective , mental processes are inferred processes — they gain their status in our theoretical base not as a result of being directly observed or experienced , but from the way in which they enable us to understand and explain human behaviour . |
| 14 | The story of the HSTs powerwise does not belong here but from the point of view of passenger comfort we should note that while much was conventional there was also much that was new … |
| 15 | From the surrounding dales , Ingleborough 's finer parts are often hidden by the billowing folds of its foothills , but from a distance the stepped profile is easily recognisable , and dominates the countryside of West Craven . |
| 16 | And so he drifts towards vanishing point : ‘ One may argue about everything endlessly , but from me nothing has come but negation , with no magnanimity and no force . |
| 17 | The first of these revelations which elucidate nothing is introduced as ‘ completely unthinkable but from another point of view and in one respect all too easy to envisage ’ . |
| 18 | Tiananmen Square may have been ‘ handed back to the people ’ , according to Peking 's mayor , Chen Xitong , but , as the statue makes clear , real power comes not from the people but from the gun . |
| 19 | But from East Germany 's angry response to the opening of the embassy doors - echoed , ominously , by Czechoslovakia — it appears that East Germany was at least expecting a quid pro quo . |
| 20 | These data came , not from what Dame Mary Donaldson ( letter , 3 October ) chose to call ‘ emotional , uninformed and often inaccurate outbursts ’ of the Pro-Life lobby , but from publications of IVF teams , the Director of Australia'a National Perinatal Statistics Unit and the Commonwealth Department of Community Services and Health . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ The ideas have been fed from the top down , but from the bottom up they have been accepted . |
| 22 | The majesty of the law does not derive from pomp , but from fear . |
| 23 | The power of the Establishment came not from the fact that a few dozen people imposed their will on the rest of us , but from the fact that for a long time we felt it right that the opinions of such people should have respectful attention paid to them . |
| 24 | The Galleries will act as a one million sq ft magnet to six million shoppers , not just from Birmingham , but from the entire West Midlands conurbation and beyond . |
| 25 | One of the peculiarities of this problem comedy is that the main obstacle to the course of true love comes not , as is traditional , from the older generation but from the young hero , Bertram . |
| 26 | We had owned the Sumatras for just a few months , but already we had seen that they are volatile and eccentric birds , much given to sudden screech-ups and bouts of cackling , which in other chickens would denote the arrival of an egg , but from them seem to signify only that they have given themselves a fright . |
| 27 | The mother , as I say , may or may not be the hen which hatched the first brood ; but from her behaviour , which seems slightly less frenetic , I reckon she is someone else . |
| 28 | But from 11 October personal pension schemes may introduce facilities allowing scheme members to direct how funds are to be invested . |
| 29 | The deans and chaplains of colleges were nervous lest the evangelicals bring in a firebrand of a missioner who would repel their undergraduates not only from his mission but from religion . |
| 30 | But from 12 December he knew that he had to move somewhere , under orders . |