Example sentences of "not from the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though not from the ones like you . |
| 2 | ‘ Not from the Mothers ' Union ! ’ |
| 3 | It is a South American fish , but not from the areas where the water is soft and acid . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The greatest single expenditure on a Nonconformist chapel came not from the Congregationalists but from the Baptists and not in England but in Scotland . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Not the seas not from the seas . |
| 8 | We 're not from the estates . |
| 9 | Why should I say the ‘ expression ’ derives its meaning from the feeling behind it — and not from the circumstances of the language game in which it is used ? |
| 10 | ‘ We took a lot of stick from the public but not from the relatives . |
| 11 | Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck , |
| 12 | When the challenge to the court came , it was not from the heirs of the rebels or from the discontented northerners , but from the queen . |
| 13 | In many ways the stimulus for this came not from the miners but from the wool and worsted textile workers who fought against further wage reductions in 1925 . |
| 14 | But not from the parents indoors . |
| 15 | An understanding of ‘ god ’ which was derived from the timeless story of evolution and life experience , and not from the results of the mindless suppression of the products of developing intelligence , would be a treasure indeed , and the very important first step in the establishing of this ‘ god ’ is the full acceptance of the premise that no such ‘ god ’ is already in existence , nor ever has been . |
| 16 | But while it would be wrong to minimize the hold of this movement , particularly in the south of France and in the Balkans , and especially between Bulgaria and Constantinople , the major threat to the future of the Church was not from the heretics but from the popular movements that sought to restore the laity 's role in the life of the Church . |
| 17 | One may remove the words ‘ next slide please ’ from the text , but not from the sequences of thought . |
| 18 | ‘ One of the greatest dramas in the history of the British Theatre ’ was , as its by-line claimed , from ‘ The Daily Telegraph ’ ; it had come , however , not from the Arts page , but from the front page description of Michael Banks 's murder . |
| 19 | The upper body , or torso , falls forward , making sure that the bend originates from the lower back , not from the shoulders . |
| 20 | They must be nesting in the rabbit-holes beneath the turf where the tent was pitched , and in the broch , where the queer chemical smell I had noticed came , not from the plants , but from the holes where the birds sat on their eggs . |
| 21 | They are very experienced and certainly well-meaning , but they 're so often greeted with growls and scowls — and that 's not from the dogs ! |
| 22 | The initial impetus for the rethink came not from the officials but from Sir Stafford Cripps in the summer of 1946 . |
| 23 | It was later found that Mr McCubbin died , not from the shots , but from a tiny piece of wire carried by the pellets , which fatally punctured his lung . |
| 24 | Mr Slovo , who learnt about the plan to kill him from the Johannesburg Star , not from the police , attributed the plot to the right 's desperation . |
| 25 | ‘ No , of course I 'm not from the police . |
| 26 | Residents say rats are coming from the council 's Hundens Lane depot and not from the allotments behind their homes . |