Example sentences of "not from " in BNC.
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| 1 | One may remove the words ‘ next slide please ’ from the text , but not from the sequences of thought . |
| 2 | I have heard that before too , but not from any writer . |
| 3 | On the other hand , there was the nationalist theory of democracy , which derives power from the people and not from an élite group of religious intellectuals . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's grossly unfair and discriminatory that cold take-out food should carry VAT from a hotel but not from anywhere else . |
| 5 | However , the foreign exchange earnings on tourism did increase in 1989 , not from IR£150m but rather by this figure . |
| 6 | He had come not from his own No. 2 dressing-room but from the floor above . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's not from the library . |
| 8 | One of his killers is the high-minded Virginsky who ‘ will never , never abandon these bright hopes ’ ( my italics ) , and another member of the quintet is Shigalov who pulls out of the affair at the very last moment , not from fear or pity or remorse but because the murder ‘ is in direct contradiction of my programme ’ — of Shigalov 's own brand of revolutionary ideology . |
| 9 | Tiananmen Square may have been ‘ handed back to the people ’ , according to Peking 's mayor , Chen Xitong , but , as the statue makes clear , real power comes not from the people but from the gun . |
| 10 | These data came , not from what Dame Mary Donaldson ( letter , 3 October ) chose to call ‘ emotional , uninformed and often inaccurate outbursts ’ of the Pro-Life lobby , but from publications of IVF teams , the Director of Australia'a National Perinatal Statistics Unit and the Commonwealth Department of Community Services and Health . |
| 11 | The power of the Establishment came not from the fact that a few dozen people imposed their will on the rest of us , but from the fact that for a long time we felt it right that the opinions of such people should have respectful attention paid to them . |
| 12 | She wrote from the shanty-towns , not from air-conditioned hotel rooms . |
| 13 | Further moves can be expected , if not from without then certainly within and anyone with a feel for football , particuarly as represented by Manchester United 's history , will draw some comfort from the possibility that Bobby Charlton will eventually emerge as their figurehead . |
| 14 | innovation flows from the application of theoretical knowledge , not from random invention ; |
| 15 | The dangers to the Thatcher regime , it appeared , came not from revolts or putsches on the back benches . |
| 16 | The students were about forty in number , most of them not from universities . |
| 17 | The sovereign power inherent in the British Crown , as exercised through Council and through Parliament , derives not from a treaty or document or compact , but from prescription , from the fact that it has been so from time immemorial — that it is immanent in the nation itself . |
| 18 | Salvation comes not from attachment to one 's own past , but from controlling it in favour of a higher goal . |
| 19 | Every technical device and dramatic trick was blatantly obvious this time through , and yet there was still a lot of delight , not from smug recognition of prize kitsch , but for a good yarn well told with the perfect characterisation of Albert Sharpe in the title role . |
| 20 | But not from the outside : this kind of camp undermines the depth model of identity from inside , being a kind of parody and mimicry which hollows out from within , making depth recede into its surfaces . |
| 21 | This revolution … proceeds by inertia , and not from a new and joyous negativity . |
| 22 | If there were games to be played or work to be done or stories to be read it was always to Rachel that she would turn ; Rachel who went out and came in when she said she would and said ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ , not from whim or temper , but with authority . |
| 23 | Maggie knew the source of her own fear : in her anger she had so nearly , so very nearly , launched herself into the air , growling a dragon 's fury , sparks flying not from her eyes but from her mouth , raining blows from above , hovering over the teacher like St Michael over the devil . |
| 24 | The wise dragon so captivates his maiden that she never even has a second for longing , that she turns not from him to stare out across the wide meadows and lakes of adolescence . |
| 25 | Such changes may receive support from cabinet ministers and senior civil servants , but may also be accepted not from conviction but from necessity ; nominal support is essential to ensure finance for a minimum quantity of imports . |
| 26 | When these chambers have been maintained in constant conditions , the electrical activity from slices of the SCN , but not from other regions of the brain , has shown a daily rhythm . |
| 27 | Lewis immediately guessed that this suggestion came not from Chavasse but from his Aunt Lily , and in the irrational way that such family meddling irritates , this prompted an extraordinary flow of anger . |
| 28 | The universe , viewed in those pre-chloroform days , was dark and painful and horrible , and wherever else the human race derived its image of a loving , moral creator , it was not from a simple contemplation of nature . |
| 29 | But then comes a statement about Christ which seems to emanate not from a rational clever man trying to help us to understand things more clearly , but from a rhetorical trickster who is not thinking at all . |
| 30 | The result has been that ‘ investment at the highest levels ever ’ has come from fares , not from any public purse , and that an ‘ economic ’ system has become unsafe as BR and LRT weigh up commercial investment needs against the cost of safety measures and the cost of paying wages sufficient to maintain a safe level of staffing . |