Example sentences of "apart [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | that the parties have lived apart for a continuous period of at least five years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've been apart for a long time . |
| 7 | There was a minute comforting sound in the soft clack as Nannie worried the laces apart like a gentle dog . |
| 8 | It was a stance which set Neneh apart with a rare stamp of honesty and courage in an industry dominated by artifice . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Stravinsky was a welcome up-beat to the new work and it drew a veil over a performance of the overture which apart from a cracking final Presto was emminently forgettable . |
| 11 | Apart from a central episode in two parts only , the whole movement follows the same pattern of double canons with the consequents a quaver later and a semitone higher . |
| 12 | They had seen little of the house apart from a gloomy garden and a long corridor which led from the entrance hall to the room in which they had been received . |
| 13 | Much sympathy went Jackman 's way as many felt that he had been humiliated ; and went also to the cricket fans of Guyana , deprived of a Test match and also , because of the weather , of any game against the tourists apart from a one-day international . |
| 14 | Apart from a wounded bird still present on Lurgashall Mill Pond on 22 July 1972 , this species has been recorded in each month from October to May . |
| 15 | ‘ Apart from a fractured leg I 've been very lucky with injuries and have got on well with the managers who have come to the club . |
| 16 | His return to the ring reached a climax in 1974 when he once more became the world 's supreme heavyweight with an eighth-round win over George Foreman in Kinshasha and , apart from a temporary spell in 1978 , held the championship until his first ‘ retirement ’ in 1979 . |
| 17 | Apart from a swollen lip Meredith 's face was unmarked . |
| 18 | There are some waters that lie in valleys where the wind has little if any influence on the water , apart from a scurrying ripple that makes little difference to the temperature layers , dissolved oxygen , or food distribution . |
| 19 | Bricklayers ' money wages , apart from a slight fall from 1736 to 1742 , were unchanged from 1717 to 1792 , and their labourers ' rates shared their constancy at a ratio of 3 : 2 . |
| 20 | ‘ Apart from a slight hiccup over a tract of land , yes . |
| 21 | Apart from a slight queasiness , physically she felt quite fit . |
| 22 | Immunohistochemistry showed a varying percentage of ICAM-1 positive colonic carcinoma cells in 9/16 tissue specimens , while normal colonic tissue ( apart from a slight reactivity of endothelial cells ) was not stained . |
| 23 | Bouncing the rhythm and lead guitars and reprocessing them was , I admit , a bit over the top but , even so ( apart from a slight dulling of the sound , easily compensated for in the final mix ) , I thought the results were very good . |
| 24 | Bare-chested , a handkerchief over his head and baggy black pants billowing , only the walkman marked Peter Maher apart from a latter-day Henry Morgan , so pirate-like was his appearance . |
| 25 | This is an understandable reaction to some of the less interesting programmes of what turns out in practice to be a kind of " library drill " : aimless trots through catalogues and reference books by pupils carrying work-cards or slips of typed paper setting them questions to answer which nobody apart from a desperate teacher-librarian would ever think to ask . |
| 26 | With those he attacks he shares the premiss that all that we are directly aware of are ideas , which have no existence apart from a perceiving mind . |
| 27 | Though his list and its implications have been largely ignored by writers on the Muftilik , apart from a passing nod from Mustakimzade , his view was adopted directly , indirectly or independently by Hezarfen , d'Ohsson and Hammer , and echoes of it are occasionally found in other authors . |
| 28 | Apart from a mettlesome Emilia in Gisella Pasino the smaller roles are filled with indifferent singers . |
| 29 | The rustling of Spittals ' hands , one across the other , backwards and forwards , was the only sound in the room apart from a demented fly . |
| 30 | That was why , apart from a mild hope that this time his wretched daughter would get herself killed , he did not devote his considerable powers to learning more about the three travellers galloping desperately out of his realm . |