Example sentences of "apart [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partridge had got all angry and upset soon too because as he was struggling with Steven a magazine fell out of his trousers on to the towpath of the canal and the other men had picked it up and it had been a spanking magazine so all the other men who were n't laughing and shouting already started teasing partridge ; Partridge started trying to wrestle Steven to the ground but Steven had got free and clouted the other man with the shovel , which was still bloody from hacking the cat to bits , and after that , with the magazine coming apart as the other men grabbed at it and Partridge rolling about dazed on the towpath in the cat 's blood and almost falling into the canal , Dan Ashton had said soberly that enough was enough and they 'd better go and see Mr Smith the supervisor because they just could n't go on like this . |
| 2 | Nevertheless it was the possession of the Spirit that set Jesus apart as the messianic Son of God , and brought the voice from heaven at his baptism ‘ Thou art my Son ’ . |
| 3 | The dates are significant , for they show that the spirit which ruled in the Italian city republics had noisy echoes in Germany and France — all over northern Europe indeed ; and that Italy and the northern communes were not so far apart as the northern monarchs and many modern historians have wished them to be . |
| 4 | In a typical monogamous bird like the robin , the male and female stay more or less apart during the non-breeding season , and only pair up shortly before breeding . |
| 5 | A family which was torn apart during the Second World War has had an emotional reunion . |
| 6 | The meeting in Minsk was described as intended to prevent the splitting apart of the Slav republics in the conditions of the Soviet Union 's disintegration . |
| 7 | The second point is the distance apart of the two hands . |
| 8 | Now that fabric of our existence is coming apart under the psychic emissions of a billion , billion spiritual ‘ cancers ’ . |
| 9 | With compassion , he then took Ali apart with the studied carefulness of a diamond cutter ; still , not enough to mask the winces at ringside . |
| 10 | His spirit had not been broken ; rather he was afraid of tearing himself apart with the involuntary jerking of one side of his limbs in the opposite direction to the other . |
| 11 | However , in practice this was only achieved as a result of the very public support of Kibaki and of Charles Njonjo the influential Attorney General ( working against the interests of the founders of GEMA ) , a triumvirate which was itself to break apart with the public humiliation of Njonjo at judicial hearings in 1984 . |
| 12 | It would be a poor sort of immortality , however , because any personal concept of time for the astronaut would almost certainly come to an end as he was torn apart inside the black hole ! |
| 13 | Apart from the elderly living alone , married couples predominate as the type of household containing elderly people in need of care … |
| 14 | Apart from the continued seizure of cultivable land by the authorities , the main problems faced by farmers were the severe limitations on water use , unfavourable marketing conditions , production quotas , restrictions on the planting of fruit trees , and poor access to credit facilities . |
| 15 | Positive results in three-day games have hovered between 42 and 50 per cent over the last five seasons , apart from the freak year of green pitches in 1989 when 57 per cent avoided a draw . |
| 16 | She showed no interest in the workers and indeed , apart from the indoor staff , knew few of them by name . |
| 17 | Apart from the inflationary impact of such measures , the global trend towards higher taxation on fuel consumption is souring relations with leading oil-producing states which yesterday threatened to retaliate with levies on imports from Europe and the US . |
| 18 | If she is still at work , the situation can be even more fraught as , apart from the extra housework , she may find her loyalties uncomfortably divided . |
| 19 | The most obvious difference , apart from the extra string , is the use of through-neck construction . |
| 20 | Moreover , Cynewulf , king of the West Saxons , is not found ( apart from the unacceptable evidence of CS 208 : S 108 ) in Offa 's entourage , nor does Offa 's confirmation of Cynewulf 's grant of land at North Stoke , north of Bath ( itself not above suspicion ) , to the monastery of Bath in the territory of the Hwicce ( CS 327 : S 265 ) necessarily imply a position of dependence on Offa . |
| 21 | There is no golden rule about how this " muddling mass " should be sorted out apart from the absolute necessity for patience and sympathy . |
| 22 | Occasionally a charge on a shield of arms , or the interpretation of a crest can be an important clue in the determination of seignorial affiliation , in linking two families with different names , or suggesting a hitherto unsuspected landholding , quite apart from the visual attraction an achievement might have as stained glass , stone carving or hatchment in the local church . |
| 23 | Apart from the visual appearance of curtain fabric , and suitability for its purpose , the other important characteristic to consider is its drapability . |
| 24 | Apart from the firm belief that if workers and senior management were to pair and so produce a perfect working environment– all hope was placed in the children of the workers we spoke with . |
| 25 | Thirdly he should be loved devoutly ( 113.171f. ) and sweetly and that is when the soul feels overcome with joy , burning in the heat of the Holy Ghost — a Noah 's ark of security in the love of God that nothing can destroy : On the question of how the lover can recognise whether he is loving , Rolle warns that apart from the overwhelming assurance which accompanies the gift of the experience of singular love , man can not live by certainty , but faith , since that is the nature of the game ; but he does suggest a do-it-yourself questionnaire which is really designed to reveal to the user where his heart is fixed . |
| 26 | It is not that the outlawing of all war apart from the overwhelming necessities of self-defence is unrealistic and therefore inevitably unefficacious as a means for controlling force , but rather that it runs counter to the sort of moral consensus on which the ethical authority of international law could be based . |
| 27 | Tasteless apart from the overwhelming sugar flavour . |
| 28 | Quite apart from the immediate salary , they are not prepared to stay in position once the development tasks have been completed . |
| 29 | Apart from the immediate proximity of the rumbustious sea , Blackpool Promenade was a good — perhaps unique — location for the great experiment . |
| 30 | Apart from the noisy inconvenience of the odd low-flying jet , the Palam Air Force ground offers some of the best practice facilities on the sub-continent . |