Example sentences of "not from a [adj] " 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 | The remnants were not from a Second World War Spitfire , as some believed , but from a Hawker Hunter jet which crashed on a routine flight 33 years ago . |
| 4 | THEY are sad for Fergie because these treasured family moments are not from a real family . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | Much as it is ‘ obvious ’ to us from the diagram ( though not from a verbal or mathematical description of the same sate-of-affairs ) that B will hit D , that D will then tilt with its left half moving downwards , and that B will end up touching both A and D but not the ground , so it is easily discoverable by the program that this is what will happen . |
| 8 | The earliest temple-sculpture we possess is not from a Doric temple but from an attempt to monumentalise the old form . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But then comes a statement about Christ which seems to emanate not from a rational clever man trying to help us to understand things more clearly , but from a rhetorical trickster who is not thinking at all . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This revolution … proceeds by inertia , and not from a new and joyous negativity . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 " . |
| 16 | He can ask all the questions he wants to ask , he can find out the answers , not from a third party , but from Jesus Christ himself ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She may have to find her young not from a dozen but from a million . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It should arise from concern and interest in the counsellee , not from a prurient self-interest or inquisitiveness on the part of the counsellor . |