Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [verb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , however , the Ukrainian decision to vote for full independence left him with little alternative but to withdraw from the USSR and in effect bring about its demise ( see pp. 179–85 ) . |
| 2 | Blanche had heard rumours about the pressures on police manpower but knew from the chief superintendent 's manner that that could not be the reason . |
| 3 | And we shall get a clearer idea of the time of death when Dr. Blain-Thomson has done the P.M. But judging from the state of rigor , Dr. Kerrison was n't far out . |
| 4 | The notes of guidance to the Code stress that the purpose of any interview is not necessarily to obtain an admission but to obtain from the suspect his explanation of the facts . |
| 5 | The ring of gas in Supernova 1987A was not created in the explosion but ejected from the progenitor star a few thousand years before the explosion . |
| 6 | Vogue assured its readers that ‘ everyone goes cruising and the trouble is not to find a cruise but to choose from the numberless , almost equally alluring cruises that are most suited to one 's particular fancy ’ . |
| 7 | Rhinoceros horns , in reality agglutinated masses of hair , are not attached directly to the skull but grow from the tough hide . |
| 8 | Typical of the stock are six chairs in Regency style but dating from the 1950s , for £850 ; and a pair of delicate late-Victorian rosewood chairs at £85 each . |
| 9 | The criminal law defines only some types of violence as criminal assault ; it excludes verbal assaults that can , and sometimes do , break a person 's spirit ; it excludes forms of assault whose injuries become apparent years later , such as those resulting from working in a polluted factory environment where the health risk was known to the employer but concealed from the employee ( Swartz 1975 ) ; it excludes ‘ compulsory ’ drug-therapy or electric-shock treatment given to ‘ mentally disturbed ’ patients or prisoners who are denied the civilized rights to refuse such beneficial medical help ( Mitford 1977 ; Szasz 1970,1977a , 1977b ) ; it excludes chemotherapy prescribed to control ‘ naughty ’ schoolboys , but includes physically hitting teachers ( Box 1981b ; Schrag and Divoky 1981 ) . |
| 10 | A more likely cause of restlessness and dissatisfaction among farm workers occurs when friends , neighbours and kin among the ‘ locals ’ cease to work on the land but commute from the village to nearby towns . |
| 11 | President Ranasinghe Premadasa reshuffled the Cabinet on March 30 , reappointing Wijetunge as Prime Minister but omitting from the new ministerial team Gamini Dissanayake , a minister for the past 13 years . |
| 12 | CANCER victim Jennifer Fowler beat her deadly disease but died from the cure , an inquest heard yesterday . |