Example sentences of "apart from a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | She and her husband Felix had been around the London underground since its birth , apart from a sojourn in the backwater of Munich . |
2 | Apart from a range of genuine chemical species mentioned , in Operation Plum Pudding ( Fig. 1 ) , Dan reveals that the newly produced Tungstal Maximite Spray was being used to protect Big Ben from weathering . |
3 | But , apart from a winter break , whatever is planned around the 23rd relates to one specific plan or association which has been on and off for several months and is now back on again . |
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 | Apart from a day trip to Boulogne in 1937 , there is no evidence that Joyce had ever travelled abroad since his arrival in England from Ireland in 1921 . |
6 | Apart from a pile of fading wreaths and evidence of recent digging , the grave of Ireland 's most revered poet , spoken of today in the same bated breath as W. B. Yeats , is unmarked . |
7 | He was down and sometimes it seemed as if nothing was going to shake him out of it , apart from a laugh at someone else 's expense or a shared moment of despair . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | He was never invited to his flat , apart from a drink in the Farley Court flat before an evening at a restaurant . |
10 | But all the other pieces are proper ones , apart from a pawn made from a marble and a blob of chewing gum . |
11 | I own a 1984 Hi Capacity Pick Up which , on the whole , I am extremely pleased with apart from a couple of area- . |
12 | There was no one about apart from a couple of youths stoning the seagulls with empty beer bottles . |
13 | At first sight , apart from a couple of interesting narrow limestone ridges in the Winnats Pass , the reef hills of the upper Dove and some broken buttresses on Mam tor and around Kinder downfall , the area may seem to offer little to whet the appetite of competent scramblers . |
14 | Beds , bedding and linen formed the largest single item ; clothing , pots and pans ( some of them pewter ) and kitchen stun made up most of the remainder , and apart from a couple of coffers , a table board , two ‘ chairstools ’ and a few small boards and forms , totalling 7s. , the house was almost bare of furnishings . |
15 | On my return to London I tried to find out about the Ober Gabelhorn but there was little information readily available , apart from a couple of references to it as one of the great alpine peaks . |
16 | The dining room was empty apart from a couple of staff members who were laying tables for breakfast . |
17 | Apart from a couple of minor cuts and bruises , there were no injuries . |
18 | Here , however , she was alone apart from a couple of men seated on stools next to the bar , and a yellow Labrador slumbering at their feet . |
19 | The tower was converted to a house around the turn of the century and has been lived in ever since apart from a couple of years when architects used it as offices . |
20 | I must admit I do not seem to know them as I used to years ago , apart from a couple of detectives who come into the shop . |
21 | she ate all of that apart from a couple of spoonfuls |
22 | Apart from a price list , so we had a price list , and I thought right so I went to a book shop and I tried to find a book on masks nothing . |
23 | Apart from a header comfortably collected by Martyn , McClair could only chase the game . |
24 | An old-fashioned green-painted bath on claw feet , a lot of bottles on the glass shelf in front of a gilded , slightly spotted mirror , everything tidy apart from a wad of used cotton wool on the edge of the sink . |
25 | Apart from a cinema , there were no real forms of entertainment ; mixing with Servicemen 's wives would have been one of the few ways of passing the days . |
26 | What all the " finishing " processes had in common , apart from a degree of exertion greater than was needed for hand-setting but not necessarily greater than could be expected from a normal young woman , was that these were tasks an apprentice learned only towards the end of his time . |
27 | If anybody can tell me what was at the other end , apart from a hole , then not carefully , er I 'd be very grateful . |
28 | To my left was a rough wooden handrail , below , to right and left , I could now make out the grey slopes of two of the conical pits formed by the vault of the transept beneath — the floor under the catwalk was really a negative ceiling — but , apart from a yard or two near the edge , it was completely submerged in nest , as was the catwalk itself a few steps further in . |
29 | ‘ So , ’ he was saying , ‘ no interruptions today apart from a refill of coffee now and then . |
30 | The illness was sudden : Rose had generally been very fit and healthy throughout her life , apart from a tendency to faint in warm , crowded rooms . |