Example sentences of "[noun sg] apart [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Two maintenance gangs who were working one night some distance apart on a section of track noticed a mysterious light between them but despite searching the area nothing could be found to explain the phenomenon . |
| 4 | The route lies predominantly within agricultural land of good quality apart from a section to the south of the Edinburgh/Carstairs main railway line where it is flanked by residential developments . |
| 5 | Once , on a more adventurous day , he began taking some of the furniture apart with a screwdriver he found beside the garden shed , but was caught by his mother and told to put it back the way he had found it before she chased him out of the house . |
| 6 | The whole world apart from a handful of Maoris know it as New Zealand … are you trying to con a few subscriptions from them ? |
| 7 | A local region of space itself seemed to writhe in superheated paroxysm , tearing the Titan apart into a maelstrom of spinning vapour . |