Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the surfaces were bare apart from a seventeenth-century bronze statue of Theseus abducting Antiope , the queen of the Amazons . |
| 2 | It was almost eight o'clock and the streets were dead apart from a little through traffic . |
| 3 | As we came round on Wigmore one more time , it was clear even from a distance that the situation had flared up drastically . |
| 4 | It was empty apart from a round wooden table , a large golden picture frame on one wall and a cupboard . |
| 5 | The dining room was empty apart from a couple of staff members who were laying tables for breakfast . |
| 6 | It was empty apart from a few chairs and a couple of tables . |
| 7 | Pilot Stephen Grey was unhurt apart from a minor neck injury which hospitalised him for a short period . |
| 8 | ‘ When I told him that the van was standard apart from a roll cage he found it even more difficult to accept . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The point is that many an insect was saved by an exceedingly slight resemblance to a twig or a leaf or a fall of dung , on occasions when it was far away from a predator , or on occasions when the predator was looking at it at dusk , or looking at it through a fog , or looking at it while distracted by a receptive female . |
| 11 | An earlier court hearing was told that the woman awoke one morning to be confronted by McKenzie , who was naked apart from a pair of underpants on his head . |