Example sentences of "[verb] apart [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remaining gas drums were torn apart in a huge blast , and a series of titanic explosions ripped through the fuel tanks in their area , the shock wave breaking loose enormous chunks of rock from the roof . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , a republican splinter group torn apart by a savage feud over drugs money has agreed to disband . |
| 3 | For a second the shell lay with a smoking fuse amidst the wreckage of the wheel , then it crashed apart in a deafening explosion . |
| 4 | It starts at zero and eventually the galaxies are moving apart at a steady speed . |
| 5 | And it 's called apart from a chemical reaction , but it measured by something called synergy . |
| 6 | He clutched his arms , but his fingers went through flesh as if he were a drowned man coming apart in a terrible dissolution . |
| 7 | In the 31st minute Portadown were pulled apart by a glorious move from Loreto , but Gerry O'Neill failed to make contact when all she had to do was touch the ball home . |
| 8 | There were simple , wooden toys for babies , kept apart on a special run of shelves . |
| 9 | But they still do get nurses due for retirement who have nowhere to go apart from a special retirement home for others in the same profession . |
| 10 | I mean apart from a monstrous attack on our own officers who ca n't answer for themselves in this place . |
| 11 | And so , drawing together the threads of this obsessive preoccupation with the civility of ‘ Old England ’ which had been ripped apart by a new strain of hot-blooded and un-English violence , the Old Thunderer arrived at a truly horrific conclusion : ‘ Our streets are actually not as safe as they were in the days of our grandfathers . |
| 12 | I have to report to the House with deep sadness that , shortly after 5 o'clock on Friday afternoon , seven construction workers on their way home from work were killed and seven were injured , five very seriously , when their minibus was blown apart in a massive explosion at Teebane Cross , on the main Omagh to Cookstown road in County Tyrone . |
| 13 | Families too big to be happy , and whose continued existence as single units cramps ambitious junior members , fall apart with a rancorous outburst of witchcraft charges . |
| 14 | that the parties have lived apart for a continuous period of at least two years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition , and the respondent consents to a decree being granted ; or |
| 15 | that the parties have lived apart for a continuous period of at least five years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition . |
| 16 | The petitioner still had to prove breakdown by demonstrating one ( or more ) of the following ‘ facts ’ : that the respondent had committed adultery ; that the respondent had behaved in such a way that the petitioner could not reasonably be expected to live with the respondent ; that the respondent had deserted the petitioner for a continuous period of at least two years ; that the parties had lived apart for a continuous period of at least two years and that the respondent consented to a decree being granted ; or that the parties had lived apart for a continuous period of at least five years . |
| 17 | The petitioner still had to prove breakdown by demonstrating one ( or more ) of the following ‘ facts ’ : that the respondent had committed adultery ; that the respondent had behaved in such a way that the petitioner could not reasonably be expected to live with the respondent ; that the respondent had deserted the petitioner for a continuous period of at least two years ; that the parties had lived apart for a continuous period of at least two years and that the respondent consented to a decree being granted ; or that the parties had lived apart for a continuous period of at least five years . |
| 18 | That the parties have lived apart for a continuous period of at least two years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition and that the respondent agrees to a decree being granted . |
| 19 | A good example is the Russian matrioshka doll — the fat mother with smaller clones within — that the heroine of poet Carol Rumens 's first play Almost Siberia twists apart in a central crisis scene . |