Example sentences of "[not/n't] from [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | You may take interest from a foreigner but not from a fellow Jew ’ ( Deut. 23:9–20 ) . |
2 | It has been suggested that the carved metope was in fact a western idea only later imitated in Greece proper , and that the metopes from the foundations of the Sicyonian Treasury were not from a Sicyonian building but perhaps a Syracusan . |
3 | THEY are sad for Fergie because these treasured family moments are not from a real family . |
4 | Example B : A single postgraduate student , not from a hot country , should allow approximately £4,600 in living costs for a nine-month study period at the University of Edinburgh if accommodated in the private sector . |
5 | I was not from a religious background , and I had previously thought that anyone who went to the mikva had to wear ghastly old-fashioned dresses with thick tights and live in a Yiddish-speaking ghetto ! |
6 | The earliest temple-sculpture we possess is not from a Doric temple but from an attempt to monumentalise the old form . |
7 | While , when Leeds scores a similar ( except better effort ) bollex head ( Coppell ) describes it as a lucky passage of play and not from a great footie team . |
8 | It was impossible not to feel that she had been badly treated , but the bad treatment came from the intransigent doctors and not from a Prime Minister who , as she must have known , was immensely supportive and would not willingly have been associated with any slight on her . |
9 | But the most damaging criticism of the privatization process came some years later , and not from a Labour politician but from one of the most distinguished Conservative leaders since the war , Harold Macmillan . |
10 | The universe , viewed in those pre-chloroform days , was dark and painful and horrible , and wherever else the human race derived its image of a loving , moral creator , it was not from a simple contemplation of nature . |
11 | Gorbachev then announced his resignation offer because " 70 per cent of the speakers are criticizing me , not from a personal point of view but on behalf of the people " . |
12 | I conclude that such carers will either be obtained from the crossroads organisation or something similar or from private advertisement but not from a nursing agency . |
13 | It looks as if he was initially working not from a completed score but from a sketch , and simply making sure that enough space was left for the movement before the copyist took over for the next one . |
14 | Perhaps then the current expanding universe resulted not from a big bang singularity , but from an earlier contracting phase ; as the universe had collapsed the particles in it might not have all collided , but had flown past and then away from each other , producing the present expansion of the universe . |
15 | Equally , hostility towards peasants who had left the commune came not from a proletarianized peasantry presaging a movement beyond capitalism to socialized large-scale farming , but from ‘ traditional ’ households who desired a redistribution of the land amassed by their more successful neighbours . |
16 | She realized that it stemmed , not from a noble desire to serve the royal family in general , but from a somewhat ignoble desire to see Edward in particular . |
17 | It should arise from concern and interest in the counsellee , not from a prurient self-interest or inquisitiveness on the part of the counsellor . |
18 | Quine takes his start not from the familiar case but from what he calls radical translation ( see Quine , 1960 , ch. 2 ) . |
19 | But his main problems stem not from the electrical appliance industry by from the American Football team — the New England Patriots — he bought for $85m in 1988 . |
20 | The inspiration for his second name came not from the famous missionary and explorer , but the street in Sydney where his parents ' college had been situated . |
21 | takes it but surely not from the right position . |
22 | They did try to kill the piglet , but as they were quite frightened and obviously not from the right background , they were not very practical about it . |
23 | I 'd like to extend a particular welcome to those people not from the Eastern Centre , we 'd like to meet new faces , new people all the time , we certainly extend a good welcome to them . |
24 | Although he insisted that he had done nothing remiss — he admitted receiving a 5,000,000 yen loan from an associate of the firm in 1989 but claimed to have repaid the money — he agreed to resign from the party ( but not from the Upper House ) for having caused embarrassment to the SDPJ . |
25 | Farrell recoiled , not from the verbal tirade but from the rank stench that wafted over him every time Dashwood spoke . |
26 | The Defence Minister , Mr Ferenc Karpati , told the Hungarian parliament that the troops used were not from the regular army but from the Securitate secret police , whose uniforms are similar and who are equipped with tanks and sophisticated weapons . |
27 | Salisbury had had his first bowl , though not from the usual legspinner 's end . |
28 | But you 're not from the ten-a-penny tray , Floyd . |
29 | ‘ Not from the financial point of view , anyway . |
30 | So having diffused to the endoplasmic reticulum it can gate open the calcium channel , and this leads to an elevation of internal calcium , not from the external medium now , but from internal stores . |