Example sentences of "[adv] from [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Apart from a few policemen patrolling the quayside , the event was unremarkable . |
| 32 | She had concluded , with relief , that apart from a few episodes of moodiness from Sarah , they had taken it very well . |
| 33 | Apart from a few fanatics , there was a general disinclination to apply the laws directed against them . |
| 34 | ‘ Apart from a few pieces of glass and steel which had been gifts from my family and had sentimental value , I let her run riot among my other acquisitions . |
| 35 | Apart from a few parts which seem to lack any antecedents , it derives variously , but less closely , from the compositions just mentioned , from the lecture on " Greek Music Drama " January 1870 ) , from the fragments on " The Greek State " and , in a few places , from the earlier preface to Wagner . |
| 36 | Throughout the three month test I did n't have any trouble with my feet apart from a few blisters after first wearing them . |
| 37 | He held the same office under Richard III ( apart from a few months when it was held by the duke of Buckingham ) and as the main financial officer in south Wales was largely responsible for funding royal servants such as Tyrell and Richard Newton . |
| 38 | He held the same office under Richard III ( apart from a few months when it was held by the duke of Buckingham ) and as the main financial officer in south Wales was largely responsible for funding royal servants such as Tyrell and Richard Newton . |
| 39 | Apart from a few nouns which allow a choice of singular or plural concord ( e.g. The committee is/are considering the question ) , the choice of singular in English rules out the possibility of plural reference by default , and vice versa . |
| 40 | Apart from a few weddings she had n't been inside a church for a long while . |
| 41 | It is exhaustive , impeccably organised , and generally well written ( apart from a few Germanicisms like telephoning ‘ over ’ instead of ‘ via ’ Sweden , and Norway 's defence being ‘ overmanned ’ instead of ‘ overwhelmed ’ ) . |
| 42 | But apart from a few sparrows and a robin redbreast the branches were bare . |
| 43 | Apart from a few individuals the hill sheep industry has shown remarkably little concern or demonstrated any important initiative in tackling this problem . |
| 44 | But , apart from a few voices off , it is presented as a monologue — an alcoholic aria to which Courtenay gives extraordinary expression . |
| 45 | The administration of the Famine was remarkable for the absence of nearly all leading Bolsheviks , apart from a few speeches from one or two of them . |
| 46 | I was initially concerned about weatherproofing , as tongue and groove timber has no overlap ( unlike shiplap or featheredge ) , and being secondhand had a good few nail holes , but apart from a few boards showing a bit of damp , it has proved satisfactory . |
| 47 | Station staff knew everyone worth knowing in the suburb apart from the few tradesmen who made no use of the railway for carriage of goods . |
| 48 | Apart from the few noises I made on the path , all I could hear was the very occasional and distant roar of heavy trucks on the road through town . |
| 49 | Apart from the few wives and daughters of master printers who had picked up something of the trade in the family firm , the first women compositors in Britain to receive anything like a " systematic training " were apparently taken on by the firm of McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows in about 1848.12 It was a little-known experiment that did not last . |
| 50 | The picture was thought by The New York Times to have ‘ a flat , tinny sound ’ , apart from the several scenes shared by Hoffman and Harris that were ‘ as touching as they were funny ’ . |
| 51 | It suffers therefore from the same problems as all needs theories . |