Example sentences of "but [vb past] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the singing was not in his head , but rose from the cowled , slow-moving figures who edged the bright file with their tapers . |
| 2 | She made no answer , but rose from the chair , knowing when she was beaten , even though she was fuming inside at his high-handedness . |
| 3 | This ‘ second dispute ’ argument was not advanced by counsel for the steelworkers but emanated from the bench . |
| 4 | Somewhat grudgingly they were admitted to Central Station via Central Drive , to Manchester Square and Victoria Pier via Station Road , but excluded from the Promenade itself . |
| 5 | The FAA voluntary reporting system was retained and continues to work well for routine incident reports , while the NASA administered anonymous system made great strides but suffered from the inability of its operatives to refer back to those reporting the incident to obtain amplification of the circumstances or to ask supplementary questions . |
| 6 | The most popular size used to be the 4½in ( 108mm ) square tile , still available in a limited number of ranges , but displaced from the No 1 position by larger 152mm ( 6in ) square tiles , which are quicker to fix ( you need only 44 to cover a square metre of wall , compared with 86 of the smaller tiles , and there 's less grouting to do as well ) . |
| 7 | Tensions were raised on Jan. 26 when Achmet Sadiq , a leader of the Moslem minority who had been elected to Parliament in June 1989 but disqualified from the November election on procedural grounds , and another Moslem parliamentary candidate were found guilty of " inciting violence and dissension " and using the word " Turkish " in their campaign manifestos . |
| 8 | She did not stay there long , but retreated from the fierce sun to the stern-cabin that she would be sharing with Ellen . |
| 9 | Once more , Huy had no opportunity to see out , but guessed from the number of twists and turns it made that they were taking a deliberately tortuous route . |
| 10 | The criminal law defines only some types of violence as criminal assault ; it excludes verbal assaults that can , and sometimes do , break a person 's spirit ; it excludes forms of assault whose injuries become apparent years later , such as those resulting from working in a polluted factory environment where the health risk was known to the employer but concealed from the employee ( Swartz 1975 ) ; it excludes ‘ compulsory ’ drug-therapy or electric-shock treatment given to ‘ mentally disturbed ’ patients or prisoners who are denied the civilized rights to refuse such beneficial medical help ( Mitford 1977 ; Szasz 1970,1977a , 1977b ) ; it excludes chemotherapy prescribed to control ‘ naughty ’ schoolboys , but includes physically hitting teachers ( Box 1981b ; Schrag and Divoky 1981 ) . |
| 11 | None the less , some statements by members of the Association reveal that the effacement required by this procedure was no more than a tactical ploy , since one of the dominant assumptions of moral education was " that morality was to be made a conscious aim of the teacher , but concealed from the pupils , who were to imbibe the influence from literature as habit or experience " . |
| 12 | The NDP failed to improve on its popular vote , winning just over 40 per cent , but benefited from the division of the rest of the electorate between Socred and the Liberals . |
| 13 | Those declared but eliminated from the ‘ Gold Cup ’ field will automatically go into the Silver Cup . |
| 14 | Eadulf , a Saxon noble , was appointed to organise the defence of Sussex but died from the plague before much could be done . |
| 15 | CANCER victim Jennifer Fowler beat her deadly disease but died from the cure , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 16 | Satisfaction was also expressed by Michael Jordan at Cork Gully and Nigel Hamilton at Ernst & Young , the joint liquidators of the two funds , who have so far recovered £60 million of the £190 million but knew from the beginning that anything like the Government pay-out for BCI was impossible . |
| 17 | Blanche had heard rumours about the pressures on police manpower but knew from the chief superintendent 's manner that that could not be the reason . |
| 18 | It faced in fifty-seven directions at once , but kept from the old American contingent , and from the anarchic underground , dislike of any political organization , a terror of being bored , or boring , and a tendency , at times , to be both , and incomprehensible with it . |
| 19 | By 1923 the area sown for food crops had increased by 14.8 per cent compared with 1920 , making for improved incomes , more cash , and so more taxes in this area ; but viewed from the middle of 1922 , there was little prospect of such a happy outcome . |
| 20 | The ring of gas in Supernova 1987A was not created in the explosion but ejected from the progenitor star a few thousand years before the explosion . |
| 21 | President Islam Karimov disagreed with the dissolution of the CPSU but resigned from the politburo on Aug. 23 . |