Example sentences of "quite apart from [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Eighty years does n't seem a very long time when you consider the art of acting has been prospering in Europe over the last four hundred or so years , quite apart from the great traditions of ancient Greek drama .
2 It might well be that some of them had work as servants , or in agriculture — but there would be strong competition for the latter , for quite apart from the regular farm labourers there were a considerable number of workmen not as fully employed at the mine as perhaps they would have wished .
3 Not that the eighties were without their problems : quite apart from the industrial recession of the early years , which affected all Railfreight 's bulk traffics to some degree or other , there was the historic miners ' strike of 1984–5 , taking heavy toll of steel as well as coal carryings .
4 Quite apart from the emotive language of ‘ turning out ’ ( and related expressions , beloved of Wilson , such as ‘ fodder for industry ’ ) , the whole tone of these remarks seems extraordinarily remote from the way we are accustomed to think today .
5 Quite apart from the practical problems of care , the family is faced with the sadness of coming to terms with change in a person they have known and probably loved all their life .
6 It is thought that the answer in each case should be ‘ no ’ because , quite apart from the practical consequences of thus multiplying liability , it would be a travesty of history to unify these disparate wrongs under one heading of tort .
7 Having found the appropriate register , the researcher is soon faced with fresh difficulties , quite apart from the daunting task of reading sixteenth and seventeenth century scripts .
8 Quite apart from the leisurely beginnings and ends of terms , the examination time , unexpected holidays , and festivals , requests for children to parade or sing or help with community work , there are the apparently inevitable absences of teachers : the headmaster to collect salaries , the senior teachers to mark and supervise examinations or attend panels , the married ladies to nurse sick children or to have babies .
9 Quite apart from the sheer mystery of all that I had to behold on arrival at an up-to-date operational station .
10 Quite apart from the economic implications , the British government feared that so drastic a move , unless effectively challenged , would encourage others in the Middle East — and even further afield — to act against foreign investments and interests .
11 Quite apart from the major wetlands , every valley bottom below a certain contour line must have been soggy and at times impassable .
12 Quite apart from the endless experiments to be carried out in developing H2S and OBOE , there were countless visits to the Air Ministry , HO Bomber Command , the aircraft makers and TRE where he had to fight and fight hard — for the priority he felt his PFF must have to survive .
13 There are dangers involved in the writing of contemporary history quite apart from the standard objection that distance and hard evidence are required if a true perspective is to be gained .
14 The best I could do would be to say ‘ I like peaches better ’ , but quite apart from the logical objection to deriving ‘ Choose the peach ’ from this psychological statement , reliance on a generalization about my preference could get me into a habit which would dim my awareness of the tastes , until I fail to notice that I no longer like peaches as much as I did , or that at this moment I hanker after a pear , so that the abortive try at rationalization would make my choice less intelligent .
15 Quite apart from the strenuous nature of the walking , planning presents problems .
16 Quite apart from the adverse opinion polls , they were conscious that Britain was in the midst of its second deep recession in little more than a decade .
17 Quite apart from the political fallout , there is the nagging worry that the economy may already be on the brink of recession .
18 Quite apart from the political considerations , however , much practical work remains to be done before such a major change could be brought about .
19 Quite apart from the other benefits of club membership , inland clubs often have the only access to local water , while coastal clubs might have the best launching facilities in an area .
20 To assert that , quite apart from the above factors , natural justice could be satisfied even though there was nothing in the nature of a hearing at all would be to denude the concept of all content .
21 Of all the varieties of patronage at the disposal of Scottish politicians , the most useful were those connected with taxation , for , quite apart from the undeniable opportunities for profit which might accrue to an official charged with the collection of public revenues , through his possession of such monies between the time of collection and the time of accounting for the receipts , the ability to increase or moderate one 's zeal was in itself a valuable asset for officers who were themselves often intimately involved in the political and social life of their communities .
22 Quite apart from the immediate salary , they are not prepared to stay in position once the development tasks have been completed .
23 Quite apart from the dubious legitimacy of generalising from one such fragment , it is uncertain how the data itself should be interpreted .
24 Occasionally a charge on a shield of arms , or the interpretation of a crest can be an important clue in the determination of seignorial affiliation , in linking two families with different names , or suggesting a hitherto unsuspected landholding , quite apart from the visual attraction an achievement might have as stained glass , stone carving or hatchment in the local church .
25 In some countries , at certain times , the consensus has been anti-inflationary : this has generally been the case in Germany , although the ‘ independent ’ Bundesbank has not prevented inflation being above 5% in eight of the last 20 years , quite apart from the monetary difficulties of German Monetary Union .
26 Quite apart from the good design points like the valance/sack extension , there are even little refinements like tug-loops tied on to the zips .
27 Quite apart from the oral causes , dietary and digestive problems can cause odour .
28 In other words , contemporaries viewed bribery as a bargain in which a vote was exchanged for something tangible at a time of election , but quite apart from the general distaste for such transactions , there was insufficient patronage available to permit its lavish use , and there was certainly never enough money .
29 But , quite apart from the general difficulty of distinguishing between a defect in the method and a defect in the manner in which the method has been applied , it seems improbable that there are any perfectly reliable methods of acquiring beliefs .
30 And quite apart from the general interest they 've been fetching high prices .
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