Example sentences of "but from a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keynes , therefore , subscribed to Liberalism as the best available option , but from a position of inner detachment . |
| 2 | Theodora was very much aware of his charm which seemed to stem not just from pleasant good looks but from a kind of inner confidence . |
| 3 | The major challenge to the dominance of such assumptions in progressive politics came , not from the mainstream Labour and socialist movements , but from a minority of socialists who anticipated post-1914 developments by seeking an accommodation with nationalist and imperialist ideas . |
| 4 | It involved the acceptance of a vocation to be undertaken not for money but from a sense of duty . |
| 5 | He wears a dark three-piece suit , but from a sense of natural modesty he has his suits considerably better cut than Freddie 's . |
| 6 | It looks as if he was initially working not from a completed score but from a sketch , and simply making sure that enough space was left for the movement before the copyist took over for the next one . |
| 7 | From the surrounding dales , Ingleborough 's finer parts are often hidden by the billowing folds of its foothills , but from a distance the stepped profile is easily recognisable , and dominates the countryside of West Craven . |
| 8 | From its harsh too-shiny texture there was no doubt it was synthetic but from a distance it looked like a black cat 's pelt . |
| 9 | The seeds , he says ‘ are flat and one half of a beautiful red colour and the other half of a deep black … the flowers have not yet appeared in England , but from a painting done from the plant in the country , they seem to be very beautiful . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm not talking about pollution from deadly chemicals or refuse , but from a group of ‘ guided ’ teenagers who were shouting and screaming . |
| 11 | Experts may offer some guidance but from a plaintiff 's point of view it is far better to frame an action using a subsection of s.92 other than s.92(1) ( c ) or ( d ) if at all possible . |
| 12 | Yes , yeah all that all that part was okay erm but from the point of view of the script th th that we 'd asked you to learn last night y you did n't do that now that may well work for you , the way you 're actually doing it , but from a training point of view we , we 're trying to look that you 're actually following the , the script there . |
| 13 | But from a study of detailed thin sections through the colonies we can deduce a good deal about the growth ( astogeny ) of colonies of bryozoans long since extinct . |
| 14 | At home in Gloucester , her mother and father learnt of their daughters death not from official sources , but from a news bulletin . |
| 15 | Lobster thermidor does not take its name from the hotness of the sauce , but from a month of the French revolutionary calendar . |
| 16 | We take an effect to result not only from a cause , but from a set of things which includes the cause . |
| 17 | Talk to Robin Slade and you know he 's a man who 's studied his sheep ; not from the point of view of winning awards with animals at the other end of a halter , but from a desire to produce the ideal carcass with that all-important round muscle . |
| 18 | He connects the rise of consumer movements in different countries with the position of the country in the world market , but from a marketing rather than a political economy point of view . |
| 19 | Less than one in five people experiencing a severely threatening event or long-term difficulties will develop depression ( Brown and Harris , 1978 ) , but from a review of ten community surveys of depression using the same Life Event and Difficulty Schedule , Brown et al. |
| 20 | But from a height . |