Example sentences of "apart [prep] a few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from a few Labour competitors , he was the best Leader of the House that I have seen , certainly in a Conservative Government . |
| 2 | People were aware of the hard struggle ahead and of its significance , but were generally calm and confident , apart from a few nervous expressions of the difficulties involved in conquering ‘ these vast spaces ’ . |
| 3 | Apart from a few small departments which relocated to Aldermaston into temporary accommodation shortly after the site was purchased , the main move was made in two parts starting with the move of the headquarters of Blue Circle Cement , the main UK operating group , into temporary accommodation in the third quarter of 1984 . |
| 4 | In fact , the themes are various and , despite rival 1492 celebrations , for Europeans the artistic creativity of Latin America apart from a few great names is still largely unexplored territory . |
| 5 | The earliest beakers were small , and , apart from a few early hunt scenes , all the figures on the larger examples came into fashion in the third century . |
| 6 | I wonder if they will ask me to go , but apart from a few curious glances , quickly snuffed , they ignore me . |
| 7 | Yet apart from a few scattered Tory voices , there is no public debate . |
| 8 | ‘ It looked pretty derelict when I bought it but the quality of materials and craftsmanship in those days was superb and I was able to restore it back to its original condition , apart from a few new components . ’ |
| 9 | The business of turning bark into stoppers is very much a cottage industry , apart from a few modern factories . |
| 10 | I 've never been able to speak Spanish before , apart from a few odd phrases like spaghetti bolognese and virtuosi di Roma ! |
| 11 | Apart from a few hundred feet just below the summit , the climbing was straightforward , yet at 21,400ft provided useful acclimatization and fleeting views through swirling clouds towards other , less accessible peaks . |
| 12 | But , apart from a few foolhardy daisies confused by a mild winter , there was little in Shetland to indicate that spring was — officially — only a few weeks away . |
| 13 | We recognise that the bulk of actual recruitment spade work will be done at a local level , but , apart from a few heroic efforts , the branches were not up to it . |
| 14 | Who , apart from a few latter-day Edwardians , is interested in a windbag with a funny beard , who wrote ( at great length ) about socialism , and whose ( long ) plays are comedies of ill-manners , featuring semi-melodramatic characters from a forgotten age ? |
| 15 | The make-ups for these are mostly straightforward , apart from a few facial appliances to simulate injuries or decay . |
| 16 | Apart from a few technical experiments , cable services the world over rely on coaxial copper cable similar to the wires that connect the TVs in people 's living rooms to the aerials on the roof . |
| 17 | Apart from a few straightforward effects ( slow motion , freeze frame ) , art movies tend to fall outside this area , because by and large SFX are expensive and time-consuming , whereas art movies of limited appeal tend to be made on relatively low budgets . |
| 18 | Apart from a few still lifes , interiors , and landscapes , the pictures of Gwen John 's artistic maturity are all female portraits , usually of a model known only as ‘ the convalescent ’ , the monumental figure isolated or before a simple background . |
| 19 | The lads have all knitted in together extremely well , and we appear reasonably settled , apart from a few niggling injuries . ’ |
| 20 | Fortunately , the wave of crack that swept American ghettos and the Caribbean has not taken root in this country apart from a few isolated cases in the North of England . |
| 21 | Similarly , Italian unions have never been organised on a craft or occupational basis ( apart from a few exceptional cases ) . |
| 22 | What they all have in common is a basic commitment that the vines should have been cultivated without the use of chemical fertilisers , pesticides , fungicides or herbicides ( except for a few age-old things like Bordeaux mixture ) , and the wine made without chemical additives or agents — apart from a few natural and/or traditional substances . |
| 23 | Liz and Owen were clearly making good progress , and , apart from a few tearful moments , the twins had happily settled down , regarding their trips to the hospital as part of their daily routine . |
| 24 | Apart from a few statutory exceptions based on tax , fraud and other predictable areas , the Salomon principle of separate legal personality is still applied to subsidiary companies . |
| 25 | Apart from a few minor displays , they are free of aggression toward their own kind . |
| 26 | But apart from a few minor lines the Wüppertal line remains the only substantial operations . |
| 27 | One assumption which the book challenges is that — apart from a few disenchanted poets and artists — most soldiers accepted uncomplainingly the necessity for huge losses and the privations of life at the front . |
| 28 | Wallace battled well till the end , but Deane looked unsettled and uninvolved , apart from a few deft touches back in defence . |
| 29 | Apart from a few ageing British Hawker Hunters , the main workload was borne by the Tupolev T-22 , the Ilyushin II-28 and the MiG-21 . |
| 30 | They are of more recent origin in statutory planning and , apart from a few basic considerations , tend to vary in their incidence in different districts . |