Example sentences of "not [verb] from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The earliest steam-pumps of Thomas Newcomen and others in the eighteenth century were not erected from the kind of detailed and accurate drawings customary by the nineteenth .
2 This fear does not arise from a view of themselves as unskilled in formal police requirements , for no policemen or women would express that they suspect this of themselves , although some admit to suspecting it of others .
3 Electricity does not arise from the wall socket , nor even from the power station .
4 My surprise does not arise from the possibility of a Government defeat over the social chapter but from the fact that it is only now that such a story has found its way onto the front pages .
5 Authority descended from above : it did not arise from the will of the majority of the people below .
6 He wants no reform , for the end of his abominable book is to show that the sufferings of the people do not arise from the want of reform ; but from the ’ indiscreet breeding of women ’ . ’
7 The idea that information about identifiable individuals must be handled with care is not new ; it does not arise from the use of computers to process such information , though the rapid development of computer technology in the 1950s and 1960s brought the issue into sharp relief .
8 There was a conspiracy among Labour Members to put on the record points that do not arise from the report .
9 Assuming there is a transfer of value and consequently a reduction in the value of the estate of Mr X which does not arise from the disposal of excluded property , and further assuming that the transfer is not an exempt transfer , one is left with a chargeable transfer on which inheritance tax is payable starting at nil per cent ( the nil rate band ) and 40 per cent .
10 The error of rationalism , in Oakeshott 's argument , does not arise from the application of scientific methods to non-scientific material , but rather results from a mistaken understanding of the nature of reason .
11 3.11 When there is some particular feature in a case which aggravates the degree of suffering it need not arise from the plaintiff 's concern about himself .
12 If Labov 's interpretations were suspect ( and of course they are not ) , this would not arise from the fact that he failed to test for significance .
13 You would not think from the way Lavinia lived that there was anything at all ! ’
14 I chose this frame especially for its plain qualities , so as not to detract from the shape of the design , but there is a small gold line on the inside of the frame to highlight the picture .
15 For you can not subtract from the conception of your pain that part of it which is you , the subject , and substitute the notion of another subject ( something like you but not you ) while supposing that the remainder ( the painfulness ) stays unchanged .
16 First , the cycle time of the various parts of the computer are not hidden from the microprogrammer , as they are from the conventional programmer .
17 They do not spring from a vacuum or according to some arbitrary whim of the people and legislators , but have their origins in the human need to control and order existence .
18 The awareness of some unrecognizable danger did not spring from the knowledge that Johnny might yet offer her violence .
19 He wondered aloud why they had not heard from the officer who had gone to check on the man seen with MacQuillan at the Black Friar .
20 The Official Receiver has not heard from the family and has no idea where they are , but assumes they are on the road .
21 He had not written much since The Complete History of Wimbledon and that book 's rejection by ten publishers ( he had still not heard from The Applecote Press , Chewton Mendip ) had made him a little nervous of putting pen to paper , but he found that if he emptied his mind of everything and forced his hand to fist a biro and then forced that biro across a sheet of paper , some pretty profound and interesting thoughts resulted .
22 However , in a letter to the BMC , Longleat Estate have made it clear that any cleaning work necessary to stabilise climbs will be done on the advice of its own specialists , dependent on the interests of tourists and the estate 's employees and not undertaken from a climbing perspective .
23 ‘ The obligation not to profit from a position of trust , or , as it is sometimes relevant to put it , not to allow a conflict to arise between duty and interest , is one of strictness .
24 These are hard persistent offenders who are not benefitting from the treatment they 're getting from social workers .
25 When I say that you can expect evolution to jump from the insect to one of its immediate neighbours , but not to jump from the insect directly to the fox or the scorpion , what I exactly mean is the following .
26 The Prime Minister had his head down for the vast majority of the speech , assiduously following the whole of the 57 pages either to avoid the accusatory , glaring eyes of the Opposition or to check that his Chancellor did not deviate from the text .
27 Even her father , for whose gardening abilities she now had a deep respect , did not deviate from the norm .
28 Although there were some variations as the election campaign unfolded , the thrust of the Tory message on law and order did not deviate from the plan drawn up at the meeting on 7 July 1978 .
29 She was cruelly obsessed with class and if her children had not come from a background that she knew to be reliable she would certainly have ignored them as she ignored the au-pair girls .
30 The papers scattered through the contents of the Quaker Oats box have not come from the Unit 's files .
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