Example sentences of "but from [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | However , the finest study for a painting — and the fabulous moment in the show — does not emanate from Holkham but is a Raphael drawing acquired by our National Gallery through private treaty , and purchased not via national funding bodies alone but from the legacies of the late Keith Andrews ( Print Room Keeper 1958-85 , a devoted scholar and delightful personality ) and his sister Rene . |
2 | Foreign visitors sometimes suppose that the region gets its name not from its environmental character but from the complexions of so many of its inhabitants , immigrant families from India , Pakistan and the Caribbean , drawn here in the boom years of the fifties and sixties , when jobs were plentiful , and now bearing the brunt of high unemployment . |
3 | In line with this , his observations are drawn , not from the consulting room , but from the mundanities of everyday intercourse , while very great pains are taken to record only what the narrator directly observed , or had reported to him on good authority . |
4 | the roots of reductionism seem to drive not so much from a free-floating tolerance on the part of the people in general but from the convictions of the most influential elites that crime is best combated by social and institutional , rather than specifically penal means . |
5 | Therefore , he reasoned , " a simple calculation will show that the UAE and Kuwaiti loans to Iraq were not entirely from their treasuries but from the increases in their oil revenues as a result of the drop in Iraqi oil exports over the war years " . |
6 | The import ant fact about Baudelaire is that he was essentially a Christian , born out of his due time , and a classicist , born out of his due time … his tendency to ‘ ritual ’ … springs from no attachment to the outward forms of Christianity , but from the instincts of a soul that was naturaliter Christian . |
7 | Peasants might flee , however , not only from such " natural " problems as local drought , famine and disease , but from the ravages of their " natural lords " . |
8 | But from the sides of their mouths projected the glistening tusks of boars , and they were crowned with great , bristling manes of stiff hair that ran down to the base of their spines . |