Example sentences of "apart from [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Apart from a swollen lip Meredith 's face was unmarked . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Apart from a slight hiccup over a tract of land , yes . |
| 12 | Apart from a slight queasiness , physically she felt quite fit . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Apart from a mettlesome Emilia in Gisella Pasino the smaller roles are filled with indifferent singers . |
| 20 | The rustling of Spittals ' hands , one across the other , backwards and forwards , was the only sound in the room apart from a demented fly . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Take a trip around the island by day and discover small restaurants tucked away in amongst the hills and valleys ; follow the bumpy sandy tracks to tiny secluded beaches , almost empty apart from a small bar or café serving ice cold sangria and the snacks the Spanish call ‘ tapas ’ . |
| 23 | Apart from a small stain on the edge this came up in almost the bright and shiny condition that it appears in the illustration . |
| 24 | Of the other farm buildings on our site , apart from a small bath-house , only barns and rural out-buildings were found . |
| 25 | But apart from a small cut on the back of your head you were fine . |
| 26 | But it ties it in to a date and I think in a similar way , erm centenary which is the only thing we 're going to do offic I think that it could be the only thing we do to celebrate our hundred years of existence apart from a small exhibition in . |
| 27 | Apart from a small number of mature entrants to the profession , most college teachers are drawn direct from the ranks of successful former students . |
| 28 | Apart from a small number of instances all the North American experience relates to case and not care management . |
| 29 | We have evidence from cosmic rays that the same is true for all the matter in our galaxy : there are no antiprotons or antineutrons apart from a small number that are produced as particle/antiparticle pairs in high-energy collisions . |
| 30 | The Outer Hebrides are composed primarily of metamorphic gneisses and igneous rocks of Precambrian age , apart from a small area near the town of Stornoway in Lewis , which has rocks of either upper Palaeozoic or lower Mesozoic age resting unconformably on the Precambrian rocks . |