Example sentences of "but from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From then onwards , all the ‘ evidence ’ offered as ‘ proof ’ that Libya was responsible for the mass murder at Lockerbie would come , not from the Scottish police or forensic scientists , but from the FBI and the CIA — and they had to work hard . |
| 2 | Insects can be gathered not only from their nests and tunnels , but from the air . |
| 3 | The college benefited greatly , not only from his gifts as an astute chairman of committees and as a calm and efficient administrator , but from the warmth of his personality . |
| 4 | Any threat to press freedom came , not from Goldsmith , but from the law which allowed him to sue distributors of libel-prone magazines . |
| 5 | Black-figure continues in use long for slight work , and for the prize vases at the Panathenaic games it far outlasts red figure , going deep into the Hellenistic age ; but from the generation after the Pioneers all major vase painters work primarily in red-figure . |
| 6 | When it came to slum clearance , opposition came not from slum landlords but from the residents themselves . |
| 7 | Clara was not at all sure what a gallery was , but from the conversation she managed to deduce that it dealt in paintings , and unlike the Tate and the National Gallery , dealt commercially . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He had come not from his own No. 2 dressing-room but from the floor above . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Second , family health service authorities ( FHSAs ) , are also required to take on these roles , but from the viewpoint of primary health care services . |
| 23 | But from the viewpoint of any property-owner , an unpunished theft is a danger , increasing the chances of being robbed himself . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But from the firm 's point of view the local sales of a subsidiary are as much foreign sales as any export is . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |