Example sentences of "not [verb] [noun] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted talented members of the civil service to take temporary appointments in the police , but though agreeing in principle , the government could not spare officers from revenue and judicial work . |
| 2 | 27 per cent could not subtract £1.80 from £5.00 . |
| 3 | This mis-demeanour did not debar Wright from election as ale-taster at the same court , and constable the following year . |
| 4 | That being so , why not eliminate lead from petrol ? |
| 5 | The Cuban leader instructed his negotiators not to accept loans from Washington , despite the apparent willingness — even eagerness — of the State Department to extend them . |
| 6 | Almost certainly the eldest child — Theresa , was n't it ? — had been taught not to accept lifts from strangers , particularly men , and he was virtually a stranger . |
| 7 | The cocktail did not stimulate efflux from cells transfected with the vector pREP8 . |
| 8 | We do not advocate routine use of a laryngeal mask in anaesthesia to control tonsillar haemorrhage as it does not guarantee protection from aspiration of blood and gastric contents . |
| 9 | This degree of knowledge will not guarantee immunity from mistakes or deceit at the hands of unscrupulous dealers , but it will help to combat the more obvious attempts at misinformation — far more likely than outright deception — and assist in assessing the integrity of any dealer or expert whom one may need to rely on for advice . |
| 10 | Fans must not seek consolation from comments such as ‘ … we dominated but did n't score … ’ or ‘ … with a bit of luck we 'll do better … ’ . |
| 11 | He does not expect miracles from Lennie and is not at all surprised when Lennie forgets things , even though he gets angry at him . |
| 12 | I do not expect shame from Ministers , but I should have thought that all the Ministers present , and all the others who might come in later , would be a little wary about pressing this matter . |
| 13 | Pound was in all seriousness embarked on an epic poem ( which he defined , following of all unlikely authorities Rudyard Kipling , as ‘ the tile of the tribe ’ ) ; he could not and did not expect understanding from readers who supposed that the epic poem had died in the seventeenth century if not before , whose expectations therefore were conditioned by their experience of the brief or else extended lyric . |
| 14 | Although our sexual practices are considered to be a low risk for HIV transmission , being a lesbian does not provide immunity from HIV . |
| 15 | You do not mind people from France , I hope ? |
| 16 | Have they not had pressure from people that would |
| 17 | Anisminic Ltd. put pressure on their customers not to buy ore from TEDO , as a result of which an agreement was reached in November 1957 whereby the plaintiff sold the mining business to TEDO for £500,000 . |
| 18 | It may be that Aethelwald 's genealogy does not survive because his family did not claim descent from Ida and it is possible that he was descended from Oswine of Deira . |
| 19 | In 1386 England was fortunate not to experience invasion from France , planned by the king 's uncle , Philip , duke of Burgundy , with support not only from Brittany and Flanders but from much of the kingdom of France itself . |
| 20 | The old grooms used to say that you should not remove cobwebs from stables . |
| 21 | We have forgotten how to read the winds or easily find directions from the stars ; we do not know any more how to read the landscape , and you , Creggan , can not recognize friend from enemy among our own kind . |
| 22 | We can not separate politics from community action , no matter what we try to do about it , no matter how idealistic we may be . |
| 23 | We can not separate power from sex . |
| 24 | The skiing developments in Caimgorm 's attracted only 1.5% skiers from overseas and even if the proposal did go ahead for expansion they still could not draw skiers from Europe . |
| 25 | Defending the use of out-of-date prices , he said : ‘ You can not levy tax from April 1 , 1993 and make your valuations on March 31 . ’ |
| 26 | Why do we have just Alastair 's Letter from America : why not have letters from Moscow , from Paris , from Tokyo , from Peking . |
| 27 | All the Iraqi people with whom we met assured us that they were eager for negotiations in order to avoid war , but said that they would not take orders from George Bush , and that none of the parties should insist on any conditions to the holding of these negotiations . |
| 28 | One feature which did unite the profession was the need to retain the market for private practitioners and not allow lawyers from neighbourhood law centres to encroach : |
| 29 | Japanese market domination in such products does not indicate exports from Japan ; the shares are held by firms that use both exports from home and , increasingly , overseas production . |
| 30 | The omission of the word ‘ allow ’ means that the employer may not deduct damages from monies otherwise due to the contractor . |