Example sentences of "not from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the groupishness of the image of social control comes not from the way quarrels were conducted but from the way men made peaces . |
| 2 | Though not from the ones like you . |
| 3 | ‘ Not from the Mothers ' Union ! ’ |
| 4 | He let everyone think that he was calling from his own area , and not from the middle of their territory . |
| 5 | And I 'm not from the beach . ’ |
| 6 | Not from the beach — I think the salt there would probably kill hookworm — but in the back streets of the town , where the sewage system was n't what it might have been , and also walking around on the wooden deck of an old schooner sailing to Aldabra . |
| 7 | It is a South American fish , but not from the areas where the water is soft and acid . |
| 8 | The butcher 's shop looked right enough , but he had got his meat from Smithfield market , not from the farmer who 'd raised it . |
| 9 | Apart from the Garter , the Order of the Thistle , the Order of Merit , and the Royal Victorian Order , other decorations come not from the fount of honour but from the desk of a Whitehall functionary or the nudge of a political friend . |
| 10 | The incentive to investigate the toughness of materials of this kind came , not from the biologists , but from the development of reinforced plastics which present an interesting paradox in the matter of toughness . |
| 11 | The greatest single expenditure on a Nonconformist chapel came not from the Congregationalists but from the Baptists and not in England but in Scotland . |
| 12 | But by the end she chose to overplay her hand and lost the sympathy of those who could have saved her from her last indignities — though perhaps not from the bottle . |
| 13 | Yet , if that were so , why did his plan entail an attack from the east bank of the Meuse only , and not from the west bank also , to achieve a successful pincer operation ? |
| 14 | Spits differ chiefly from offshore bars in that they spring from the coast and are supplied with material mainly by longshore drift and not from the sea floor . |
| 15 | Although not exhaustively comprehensive , it does give a reasonably accurate picture and its most serious defects arise not from the register as such but because English law lacks a satisfactory system for classifying personal property security interests . |
| 16 | He taught English at the Bredon Hill Middle School near Evesham , but was suspended from his duties when the allegations were made about his dealings with youngsters , who were not from the school . |
| 17 | Not from the church . |
| 18 | In personal injury cases the damage caused is usually all too painfully obvious even though its cause was a negligent act or omission many years before ; and time usually runs from the injury and not from the act or omission causing it . |
| 19 | He retired from Thames in 1966 , but not from the river . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sending the pips , not from the K.K.K. , but from me , Sherlock Holmes , to Captain James Calhoun . |
| 21 | All the judges emphasized that the danger of disorder came not from the CND marchers but rather from the fact that ‘ [ h ] ooligans and others might attack the police who were doing their duty in escorting a peaceful procession ’ ( Lord Denning ) . |
| 22 | We can appreciate one reason for this if we examine the question , not from the viewpoint of symptoms used to try to distinguish schizophrenia from affective psychosis , but by looking at the underlying psychological processes that are responsible for the two states . |
| 23 | I know there 's lads get eggs and butter and stuff from the farms , but everybody has n't got farms , and I could take you to some cottages that are well supplied with butter , sugar and cheese and what have you , that 's not from the farms . ’ |
| 24 | Not the seas not from the seas . |
| 25 | ( 2 ) Directing that the money remain in court , that , where solicitors sought payment out to them of money belonging to a foreign state , if the court was not satisfied that the solicitors had authority to act on behalf of that state , it should , of its own motion if necessary , require them to obtain that authority and ensure that the money remained under the court 's control meanwhile ; that the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a regime existed as the government of a state were whether it was the constitutional government of the state , the degree , nature and stability of administrative control that it exercised over the territory of the state , whether Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings with it and the nature of any such dealings and , in marginal cases , the extent of its international recognition as the government of the state ; that on the evidence , M. 's interim government did not become the constitutional successor of the former government and was unable to show that if it was exercising any administrative control over the territory of the Republic of Somalia ; and , accordingly , the instructions and authority the solicitors had received from the interim government were not from the Government of the Republic of Somalia , and no part of the proceeds in court should be paid out to the solicitors without further order of the court ( post , pp. 750G–H , 757E–G ) . |
| 26 | Several seconds passed before Isabel realised her name had come from beyond the wall and not from the man whose fingers still gently caressed her cheek . |
| 27 | We 're not from the estates . |
| 28 | Moreover , the anomaly arises not from the word ‘ maladministration ’ but from the limitation that the complaint must be about action taken by the society . |
| 29 | He ate the peas from the cradled fork , not from the back of it as Blanche 's mother had taught her . |
| 30 | But such destructiveness arises not from the sophistication of our technology but its crudity . |