Example sentences of "but from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it came to slum clearance , opposition came not from slum landlords but from the residents themselves . |
| 2 | However , the finest study for a painting — and the fabulous moment in the show — does not emanate from Holkham but is a Raphael drawing acquired by our National Gallery through private treaty , and purchased not via national funding bodies alone but from the legacies of the late Keith Andrews ( Print Room Keeper 1958-85 , a devoted scholar and delightful personality ) and his sister Rene . |
| 3 | A less elevated but similar claim was made by Eudes II in a letter written to King Robert : ‘ If it is a question of the nature of the benefice you gave me , the fact is that it does not come from your domain , but from the estates which come to me with your consent by hereditary right from my ancestors . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | By this time the government was of the opinion that difficulties which arose in relations between clergy and peasants sprang not merely from the economic arrangements on which the livelihood of priests depended , but from the priests ' character . |
| 6 | One could then regard law conceptually as a wholly empty series of ought statements to which content is added not by any logical deductions from some fundamental principles or from any material content lurking within the ‘ ought ’ itself but from the acts and decisions of the lawmakers in a society . |
| 7 | It would be a chemical explosion — but from the emotions ; not the body . ’ |
| 8 | But it is also the case that suggestions for amalgamation of rural — or , indeed , urban — benches come not from my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary but from the magistrates courts committees in the areas concerned . |
| 9 | The identity of the person who abandoned the Zodiac dinghy and therefore presumably planted the bombs has never been discovered but from the descriptions it seems fairly certain it was Bartelo from the Ouvéa , while the man who helped him get the dinghy into the water was Mafart . |
| 10 | However , the right to these shares , so it can be argued , derives not from a right or opportunity available by reason of employment but from the rights attaching to management 's initial shares . |
| 11 | Foreign visitors sometimes suppose that the region gets its name not from its environmental character but from the complexions of so many of its inhabitants , immigrant families from India , Pakistan and the Caribbean , drawn here in the boom years of the fifties and sixties , when jobs were plentiful , and now bearing the brunt of high unemployment . |
| 12 | In the morning it was achieved by the Professional Fred Rhodes , and after lunch by Mrs. Quain ‘ but from the ladies ’ tee ! ’ the following year the 16th was holed in one again and earned the Standard 's comment as a ‘ feat which is seldom heard of ’ . |
| 13 | In line with this , his observations are drawn , not from the consulting room , but from the mundanities of everyday intercourse , while very great pains are taken to record only what the narrator directly observed , or had reported to him on good authority . |
| 14 | the roots of reductionism seem to drive not so much from a free-floating tolerance on the part of the people in general but from the convictions of the most influential elites that crime is best combated by social and institutional , rather than specifically penal means . |
| 15 | Therefore , he reasoned , " a simple calculation will show that the UAE and Kuwaiti loans to Iraq were not entirely from their treasuries but from the increases in their oil revenues as a result of the drop in Iraqi oil exports over the war years " . |
| 16 | Christian is Bunyan himself , leaving his wife and children , as he had done when he went to prison , to undertake the pilgrimage to everlasting life : the imagery is taken not only from the Bible but from the chapbooks and folktales which were sold by travelling hawkers in the Bedfordshire villages at the time . |
| 17 | The import ant fact about Baudelaire is that he was essentially a Christian , born out of his due time , and a classicist , born out of his due time … his tendency to ‘ ritual ’ … springs from no attachment to the outward forms of Christianity , but from the instincts of a soul that was naturaliter Christian . |
| 18 | I saw a lot of old friends , and wore a dashing outfit purchased at perhaps an extravagance in a London second hand shop — but from the compliments , I feel now it was worth it and that , feeling good in it , I will wear it quite a lot . |
| 19 | The small ones show mythological scenes , but from the temples are several groups of lions pulling down bulls : terror-symbols analogous to the Gorgons and leopards at Corfu . |
| 20 | These extra digits do not come from the graft , but from the cells adjacent to it in the anterior part of the bud . |
| 21 | Not only from the luxurious , all-enveloping warmth of the soapy water , but from the hands lightly moving across his chest , the fingers caressing the dark hair . |
| 22 | Peasants might flee , however , not only from such " natural " problems as local drought , famine and disease , but from the ravages of their " natural lords " . |
| 23 | I was horrified to find out later that in fact he had not collected her from school but from the police station . |
| 24 | The greatest single expenditure on a Nonconformist chapel came not from the Congregationalists but from the Baptists and not in England but in Scotland . |
| 25 | " Yes , but from the skips , " said Mary sharply , betraying that she had not omitted to notice what was being brought in . |
| 26 | It 's odder still when the money comes not from the anonymous depths of the Eurocurrency market , but from the savings accounts of Americans living in Ohio . |
| 27 | But from the sides of their mouths projected the glistening tusks of boars , and they were crowned with great , bristling manes of stiff hair that ran down to the base of their spines . |
| 28 | laughter so that by the time we came to do the five practical ev exercises you know everybody was in a very relaxed and jolly mood but I think that 's was it 's about but from the results that we were getting from the practical exercises clearly what he said had taken root you know roll key words , roll them around in your mind er try running through letters of the alphabet to match up with your key word chains and you know if if if the word is ball try roll see if you can get it to rhyme and ultimately the creme de la creme is if you can actually get the title of a song or |