Example sentences of "but from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Whatever authority it had , came not from the power of the speaker — he had none in the conventional sense — but from the cogency and relevance of what he said and the hope it inspired . |
| 32 | The problem of the survival of the Aviti is a useful reminder of how little we know about the political structure of even our best evidenced sixth-century diocese ; but from the evidence which we do have it is clear that the exercise of episcopal power in the Auvergne was no simple matter . |
| 33 | The carnage endured in the last 20 years or so has mainly arisen not from what we from the mainland have done and/or been alleged to do , but from the conflict brought about by ineradicable sectarian fears and ambitions . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | Both had the broadly similar functions of recording , in different ways , payments into and out of the Exchequer of Receipt ; but from the middle of the sixteenth century the older office , the Clerkship of the Pells , was being encroached upon by the Writer of the Tallies . |
| 36 | Communication between organisation and media may initiated by either side , but from the organisation 's point of view media relations is concerned with achieving most favourable coverage possible . |
| 37 | Gould 's impatience and his disappointment stemmed not so much from the fruits of his collecting , but from the frustration of inactivity and the miscarriage of a good project . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | In some cases doctors will not only have to consider the capacity of the patient to refuse treatment , but also whether the refusal has been vitiated because it resulted not from the patient 's will , but from the will of others . |
| 40 | Second , family health service authorities ( FHSAs ) , are also required to take on these roles , but from the viewpoint of primary health care services . |
| 41 | But from the viewpoint of any property-owner , an unpunished theft is a danger , increasing the chances of being robbed himself . |
| 42 | For many builders the instigation to prepare management accounts arises not from within their own organisation but from the insistence by external bodies that more detailed information concerning the company 's financial position should be made available . |
| 43 | As SSC has only consultative , not decision-making status , this means that a recommendation will go to F&S not from SSC as a whole but from the Board members who sit on both SSC and F&S , and . |
| 44 | Certainly he saw the Pinkie campaign not only as a military endeavour , but as something in the nature of a religious crusade ; Scotland would be snatched not just from alliance with France , but from the yoke of Rome . |
| 45 | But from the peace of your Munro , all such regrets at its passing as a place of tranquillity vanish and it unveils its wilder delights at the east to those who come by foot and not by a knob-head 's speed boat . |
| 46 | But from the firm 's point of view the local sales of a subsidiary are as much foreign sales as any export is . |
| 47 | Young Lawrence left his , of course , on the knife and the telephone and the cabinet where the ring was kept , but from the state of the blood it was long enough after death to tally with his story . ’ |
| 48 | I had never had him down as a kerb-crawler either , but from the state of the car it looked as if it had had a good kicking . |
| 49 | Planning as a local authority responsibility has its origins in the public health and housing policies of the nineteenth century , but from the outset the objectives were broader than a simple emphasis on the efficient use of land . |
| 50 | But from the outset he had felt jittery about Event : it was not a project that he could trust to a dependable partner , as he could trust the record company to Simon Draper . |
| 51 | Chandra Shekhar managed to secure " outside " Congress ( I ) support for his small band of dissident Janata Dal members , but from the outset his government was weak and beholden to its patron . |
| 52 | From a functionalist perspective , mental processes are inferred processes — they gain their status in our theoretical base not as a result of being directly observed or experienced , but from the way in which they enable us to understand and explain human behaviour . |
| 53 | Perhaps the groupishness of the image of social control comes not from the way quarrels were conducted but from the way men made peaces . |
| 54 | Persistent aggression is a deviation not only from social convention , but from the way people ‘ naturally ’ are , since the mind is thought to be properly in control of the soul ( cf. |
| 55 | But from the way he reached out slowly to pick up the bottle and said , " In the meantime — my treat ? " |
| 56 | Julia said nothing , but from the way she relaxed into the pillows David realised how worried she had been . |
| 57 | But from the way he glanced at the girls , Chen knew what he was thinking . |
| 58 | The feeling only lasted a second , but from the way Tanetoa , Belial 's Samoan cook , flinched , some thirty feet away , Bernice guessed that Legion 's voice was doing a little travelling . |
| 59 | My aunt did n't get many letters from her , and those she did get were censored , but from the way Zdenka wrote , it was obvious that she was very hungry . |
| 60 | ‘ I know he had a rather possessive attitude towards her-I told you about that time he came into her class , did n't I ? — but from the way he looked at her , you 'd have thought she was the most perfect and precious thing on earth to him . |