Example sentences of "[coord] apart [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 And apart from the peculiarities of the relationship with the German Democratic Republic , the structural problems of the West German State are in the main those common to most ( and less acute than in many ) advanced capitalist industrial societies of the present : problems of social equality and distribution of wealth , and of maintaining in an era of world-wide recession the economic growth so central to the legitimacy of post-war liberal democracies ; problems of the exploitation ( and often ruination ) of limited natural resources in the interests of the economy ; problems of national defence in a nuclear age ; and the corresponding problems of containing and absorbing often justified social and political protest without destroying civil liberties and undermining the very essence of the liberal democratic state .
2 It embodies the decision impugned and apart from the definitions I must set it out in full .
3 And apart from the giggles from the party frocked section of the audience , there was little background buzz from the children as they became enticed by the bizarre tale .
4 There were birds singing , though not yet many , and apart from the boys ' voices the quiet was as old and deep as the land .
5 Everyday I walk in the field behind our home , and apart from the rabbits , I see owls , partridges and pheasants , deer , baby foxes playing , hares boxing , carpets of bluebells and wild orchids — an ever-changing scene and my own heaven on earth .
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