Example sentences of "apart [prep] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Her clothes will be ripped apart during a love scene in her raunchiest role , ’ shrieked the Daily Express expectantly . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , breaking apart like a toppling chimneystack , its body collapsed and felled another , which threw up an arm as it went down , as if thinking to save itself by grabbing hold of one of its remaining upright companions . |
| 3 | his beak prised apart like a pistachio nut |
| 4 | But , apart from a winter break , whatever is planned around the 23rd relates to one specific plan or association which has been on and off for several months and is now back on again . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Apart from a day trip to Boulogne in 1937 , there is no evidence that Joyce had ever travelled abroad since his arrival in England from Ireland in 1921 . |
| 7 | Apart from a price list , so we had a price list , and I thought right so I went to a book shop and I tried to find a book on masks nothing . |
| 8 | I saw little actually changing hands , apart from a pedigree pup and a painting . |
| 9 | but she sold her house in Jersey , her husband retires in July , the school break , and erm and she said I 've got some good , er when I got home from wherever I 'd been , Rudy left me a note to say phone Val good news and I thought it were her back was good news , but she said no me medical problems were not good news , they dare n't operate cos me back 's in such a state and they have n't give her much hope for anything apart from a wheelchair sort of thing , later on in life and erm , but she said that I 've got a bit of good news I 've sold me house so I said ooh lovely , so she said I do n't know any more but I ring you and let you know , the next night she phoned me back , she said yeah me house has gone they got two hundred and twenty thousand for it , they wanted them out a week on Thursday |
| 10 | ‘ When I told him that the van was standard apart from a roll cage he found it even more difficult to accept . |
| 11 | Part-time soldiering essentially took second place to a full-time job , and it was impossible to make the TA work as anything apart from a weekend occupation . |
| 12 | This meant very little to me apart from a salary increase and a move from my position at the extreme right of the Cabinet table to the extreme left . |
| 13 | Apart from a petrol generator , something like a kiln and a bench with an array of chemistry glassware , there was no one there . |
| 14 | Apart from a specialist service second to none , the importance of accurate figures relating to the incidence of the various conditions has not been overlooked , and , again , Great Britain leads the world . |
| 15 | ALTP/CL Class I standards will remain almost the same , apart from a haemoglobin blood test every medical , and every five years a serum lipids ( fats ) cholesterol test . |
| 16 | He said the only details available , apart from a death certificate , had come from Mr Garrod 's family . |
| 17 | Now the purpose of therefore of this training course and any any training course is to do this is to be able to handle the arousal and increase your level of performance and even get the peak to move that way so for any level of arousal you 're getting better performance but you 're also able to handle a bit more butterflies a bit more of the nerves in order to perform effectively , and apart from a training course like this how do you achieve that ? |
| 18 | But I am perfectly healthy , apart from a wisdom tooth which aches after I drink something too cold and an occasional headache if I work too long in a poor light . |
| 19 | At the end of the hallway he turned a corner and saw that he was facing a dead end , doorless apart from a fire exit , the walls dappled with scabs of paint and sick yellow neon light . |
| 20 | Age had no significant influence on the relation of cancer incidence and drug treatment , apart from a 76% excess of cancers in the oldest age group taking βblockers other than atenolol ( table V ) . |
| 21 | Arthur would lie on the floor heaving , dead silent apart from a rust creak at the moments when he managed to catch a breath . |
| 22 | Apart from a cameo role in the ill-fated and so far unreleased Bloodhounds of Broadway , she has not taken a film role since the poorly conceived Shanghai Express and Who 's That Girl . |
| 23 | There was not a soul to be seen , and apart from a hammering noise echoing from somewhere distant , and an occasional coughing in a room to the back of the house , there is still no sound to be heard . |
| 24 | People came and went , but almost nobody stayed to eat ; Lucy had the dining area beside the counter more or less to herself , apart from a business type in an Aquascutum raincoat who sat two tables away reading a caravan magazine . |
| 25 | An expedition to the bar of the Glue pot convinced him that , apart from a hacking cough and a tendency to tire easily , he was very much his old self . |
| 26 | However , there is no major industrial location in the inner-ring areas apart from a riverbank development at New burn which is just a linear extension of West Newcastle . |
| 27 | Andrews went on to complain that the TNP 's association with the NDC had brought no benefits apart from a Cabinet post ( the Ministry of Agriculture ) for Ben Jones . |
| 28 | Apart from a silver cup sent by Sir Hans Sloane in 1742 , with which John Bartram was ‘ well pleased that thy name is engraved upon it at large , so that when my friends drink out of it , they may see who was my benefactor ’ and a gold medal from a Society of Gentlemen in Edinburgh , tangible appreciation was slow to cross the Atlantic . |
| 29 | Apart from a family holiday at Eastbourne during the last fortnight in August , he remained at Battersea Rise until he revisited his relations at Swindon from 15 February to 28 March 1896 , when he broke off his stay in order to visit Mr Noble . |
| 30 | She supposed she had lost the baby but she herself felt reasonably comfortable apart from a plastic pipe stuck into the back of her hand which was sore and meant she could n't move . |