Example sentences of "apart from [det] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Apart from many articles in Ibis , he wrote Nicholl 's Birds of Egypt ( 2 vols. , 1930 ) , Birds of Arabia ( 1954 ) , and Pirates and Predators ( 1959 ) .
2 But then I thought how this was the sheriff 's business , and how the Church is held innocent and apart from all dealings in cases of blood .
3 After another successful campaign , apart from some setbacks in Wales and near-disaster in Scotland , the Thatcher regime seemed as impregnable as before .
4 Despite the absence of any traces of body or coffin ( apart from some nails in the fill ) in the central pit , the whole monument would appear to be the probable grave — or cenotaph — of an important official which was erected sometime around the middle of the second century .
5 Ants of the genus Hypoclinea are the only known genuine nomads , apart from some tribes of man .
6 The recorded history of Siberia begins ( apart from some references in early Chinese works ) with its invasion by the Russians in the late sixteenth century .
7 That young girl hardly out of her teens , married to an ailing elderly man , probably never went out of the house apart from these visits to the hospital .
8 Apart from these changes in police tactics , some of the new legal powers of the police which emerged during the miners , strike have been developed in interesting ways .
9 A few other islets were visible on the other side of the valley , but apart from these patches of high ground and the stranded city itself , a glistening white mass of fog covered everything .
10 Apart from these kinds of arguments , there is one other consideration which impinges strongly on modularization , i.e. the attitude of professional bodies .
11 With what degree of innovation this entire process took place it may be difficult to judge in retrospect , but it is important to note that to many observers at the time the very act of establishing the CNAA and its institutions firmly in the picture of higher education was a major innovation , apart from any judgments about the specifics of the CNAA 's activities .
12 The Mazda text illustrates that , quite apart from any considerations of grammaticality , it is necessary to take account of thematic structure and to maintain a coherent point of view in any act of communication .
13 Western governments , and the populations that vote for them , have to be persuaded that it is in their own interests , quite apart from any considerations of common humanity , to start the reconstruction of the developing world .
14 Apart from any implications for theories of sleep function in physiology , results from experiments on the effects of sleep deprivation have some practical importance .
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