Example sentences of "[noun] apart [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Altogether there were forty of us , all from Fontanellato apart from a shipowner from Genoa who had been spending a holiday in his house in the country . |
| 2 | In general , if is basic in a subsidiary tableau and its row has no positive entries apart from a positive entry in the resource column , then there is no feasible solution with . |
| 3 | ‘ The only car apart from a Rolls-Royce that he could fit into was an extra large Range Rover , ’ says the driver , who also tells hair-raising tales of ferrying Maxwell about town . |
| 4 | There was no light apart from a guttering candle , because the war had ended only a month or so before and the electricity supply had not been restored . |
| 5 | However , there is no major industrial location in the inner-ring areas apart from a riverbank development at New burn which is just a linear extension of West Newcastle . |
| 6 | Crusaders had nothing of note to show in the first half apart from a drive lofted over the bar by Stephen Lynch from Burrows ' free kick in the second minute and a double save by Distillery keeper Steve Collins from Steven Livingstone in the 31st minute . |
| 7 | The day progressed and I had searched a reasonably large expanse of foreshore without much to show by way of finds apart from a few pennies and halfpennies . |
| 8 | Throughout the three month test I did n't have any trouble with my feet apart from a few blisters after first wearing them . |
| 9 | I have discovered two new rooms in the tower ; the lower , immediately above the fan ceiling , has bell ropes dangling and is obviously still in use , whilst the upper is bare , dusty boards apart from a giant treadmill in the centre which might once have been used for hauling up stone but is clearly redundant now . |
| 10 | Findlay and Francis were both indicted ( with others ) with conspiracy to rob and also with substantive counts of robbery , including two robberies five weeks apart at a sub-post office in Hainault . |
| 11 | Make rows 23cm/9in apart with a stick or hoe and plant them about 10cm/4in apart with the tips just out of the soil . |
| 12 | Bare-chested , a handkerchief over his head and baggy black pants billowing , only the walkman marked Peter Maher apart from a latter-day Henry Morgan , so pirate-like was his appearance . |
| 13 | At such a temperature the deuterium and tritium fuels are so hot that they would vaporise every material known , stripping the atoms apart into a ‘ plasma ’ of electrons and nuclei roaming free of one another . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , no — only three messages apart from a long one that concerns you , ’ she said with a hint of ill-concealed jubilation . |
| 15 | Even so , there has already been one triumph : inflation fell to 6% in the year to the third quarter , the lowest rate for 18 years apart from a brief spell in 1984–85 . |
| 16 | I mean seven years continual dredging for seven years apart from a month they in dock and you were taking out eight hundred tonne every hopper load and some days you were doing five loads and sometimes four loads , was a lot of mud we dumped so much mud out at erm near the Cork Lightship , now you would think they would level theirself off would n't you and if they did n't that up . |
| 17 | Colouring was done by hand , following pattern plates coloured by the artist , so that different copies of the same work , perhaps done several years apart in a slow-selling book , may differ considerably among themselves . |
| 18 | What do herbs have to offer fish apart from a better flavour ? |
| 19 | Darren bought a 72,000-mile Sierra Sapphire 16 months ago and has now run the mileage up to an incredible 112,500 miles with no attention apart from a new exhaust , replacement rev-counter and three services . |
| 20 | Shetland has no biting insects apart from a few midges in late summer , and I had n't realised just how much of a problem these Arctic mosquitoes could be . |
| 21 | But most areas did avoid the rain apart from a few spots of rain over the islands . |
| 22 | The rustling of Spittals ' hands , one across the other , backwards and forwards , was the only sound in the room apart from a demented fly . |
| 23 | Closing the claw pulls the discs apart with a click that can be heard over a kilometre away . |
| 24 | There was a minute comforting sound in the soft clack as Nannie worried the laces apart like a gentle dog . |
| 25 | Two maintenance gangs who were working one night some distance apart on a section of track noticed a mysterious light between them but despite searching the area nothing could be found to explain the phenomenon . |
| 26 | The shortest paths joining points a finite distance apart on a curved surface are generally not simple straight lines . |
| 27 | The divorce rate rose fairly steadily over the decade apart from a notable , but not entirely sustained , increase after the liberalising of the laws in 1984 . |
| 28 | In other words it can just distinguish stationary 1mm black vertical lines 1mm apart on a white background at a distance of 3m . |
| 29 | The route lies predominantly within agricultural land of good quality apart from a section to the south of the Edinburgh/Carstairs main railway line where it is flanked by residential developments . |
| 30 | It had not been sighted for nearly a month apart from a brief report by a shepherd in Northumberland which sounded like a possibility but was vague — and the Zoo conceded that if he was still alive he could certainly survive like any other golden eagle in the wild . |