Example sentences of "[adv] from a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Peter McBride , who has two young children , was hit in the back as he sprinted away from a Scots Guards patrol in Belfast 's republican New Lodge area .
2 A BEWILDERED 10-year-old boy was left to wander the streets for hours after being turned away from a police-run sports centre .
3 There are virtually no deciduous trees , aside from a few beeches seen halfway along the Strait near the modern coaling-station of Punta Arenas .
4 Again , while the emphasis in television has changed slightly from a few decades ago , for instance in the acceptance that women can be sufficiently authoritative to read news broadcasts , nevertheless we still have Westerns full of macho cowboys and soap operas with glamorous full-time housewives .
5 Secondly , there is their general ability , inferred from the class and source ( i.e. institution ) of their degree , and perhaps also from A level grades .
6 A year ago they would have replied in kind ; now from a hundred throats came the new cry : ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ with if anything even greater fervour .
7 Apart from a few rings like those recovered from the megalithic passage-grave at Mané-er-Hroek in Brittany , the jade artefacts circulating in Neolithic Europe consisted entirely of flat celts with pointed butts .
8 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 .
9 There were what we got delivered yesterday was all we had , apart from a few bottles
10 The passageway here splits into two , one branch leading to the engine sump where a cage lies jammed for ever , the other leading to where a small spiral stairway runs up from a hole in the wall , over the tunnel , to the engine room which , apart from a few acts of vandalism and the ravages of time , is very much as it was on the day it was left .
11 So apart from a few minutes to snatch a bite to eat , he was seldom off the helm .
12 This morning , most areas had a bright start — apart from a few showers in the east .
13 Apart from a few critics ' reservations about the strength of the show 's songs , the reviews saluted Crawford as the West End 's newest star .
14 Apart from a few scabs here and there and other tell-tale marks around my body my exuberance for life , living and loving , had returned .
15 It was empty apart from a few chairs and a couple of tables .
16 When Society members inspected the guard 's compartment , they discovered that the original vacuum gauge was still in place and that , apart from a few alterations to the window arrangements , the coach is essentially as built .
17 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 .
18 Apart from a few blends , generally called either Vin d'Alsace on the label , or Edelzwicker , wines are produced from individual grape varieties .
19 Apart from a few ornaments and pictures he had paid for everything .
20 Apart from a few Sikhs and a very irritable Hindu from East Sheen , most of the targeted persons seemed quite pleased to be asked .
21 Anyway , apart from a few discrepancies , the legal position of women in El Salvador is pretty good .
22 Apart from a few independents and a handful of dissidents the only candidates among whom the elector can choose will be those that the parties have seen fit to put before him .
23 But most areas did avoid the rain apart from a few spots of rain over the islands .
24 Apart from a few pickpockets in Rangoon , street crime does not exist .
25 Thaw says the new Morse series he has just finished filming will be his last apart from a few specials .
26 And after half an hour of discussing the good things and the less good things about the royal family the vote , apart from a few abstentions , we have worried a few people fo fo fo forty three people say we think that it should be a republic , fifty four no , so there is there 's a swing factor in the middle .
27 Apart from a few policemen patrolling the quayside , the event was unremarkable .
28 She had concluded , with relief , that apart from a few episodes of moodiness from Sarah , they had taken it very well .
29 Apart from a few fanatics , there was a general disinclination to apply the laws directed against them .
30 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 .
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