Example sentences of "[verb] not from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Aye , until d'Arquebus knew bitterly — and until others recognized scornfully — the sham of his valour , which came not from Dorn at all , but was really no more than the flip-side of his former high-hab extravagance … |
| 3 | Explanation flows not from analysis of archaeological data but by reasoning on the basis of what seems most likely given the manner in which the data has been presented . |
| 4 | Salvation comes not from attachment to one 's own past , but from controlling it in favour of a higher goal . |
| 5 | Most of the relevant experimental evidence on this issue comes not from studies of latent inhibition but from investigations of conditioning itself . |
| 6 | The pleasure of parody 's irony comes not from humour in particular but from the degree of engagement of the reader in the intertextual ‘ bouncing ’ ( to use E. M. Forster 's famous term ) between complicity and distance . |
| 7 | The point should not be missed either that a great deal of capital for investment comes not from profits in industry but from the vast and growing capital of pension funds and other financial institutions relying on personal savings , which , as we shall show below , have shown an upward trend in recent years . |
| 8 | Moreover I agree with her that , if there is to be a right to recovery in respect of taxes exacted unlawfully by the revenue , it is irrelevant to consider whether the old rule barring recovery of money paid under mistake of law should be abolished , for that rule can have no application where the remedy arises not from error on the part of the taxpayer , but from the unlawful nature of the demand by the revenue . |