Example sentences of "apart from [v-ing] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from supplying the ingredients for a good evening , he also supplied the boats with essential services , as we found out , and in so doing , he distributed work . |
| 2 | Apart from maintaining the cycle of requiem masses , the most important role of the parochial guilds and fraternities was the organization and servicing of the funeral procession . |
| 3 | Apart from re-arranging the furniture — which can be a bad enough job in itself — visualising an extension or addition to any building can be very difficult . |
| 4 | Dyson never caught the names of any of the others , or found out what they did , apart from drinking the company 's gin with a reassuring deftness . |
| 5 | Describing the new music as ‘ a communicable disease ’ and ‘ the music of delinquents ’ , The Daily Mail was so moved as to run a front-page editorial , ‘ Rock'n Roll Babies ’ , which apart from issuing a hollow , reassuring prophecy — ‘ It will pass ’ — stoked up the fires of respectable discontent against ‘ this sudden ‘ musical ’ ’ phenomenon which has led to outbreaks of rowdyism' . |
| 6 | The hotel staff had been firmly relegated to a very small part of their own domain for the preparation of luncheon and would thereafter be merely onlookers , apart from serving the food to the hoi polloi of the guests this evening , while Auguste and his pupils served the Prince of Wales 's table . |
| 7 | Understandably , no-one had any idea what had happened in Chiswick , but the truth was soon discovered and , on this occasion , there appeared to be no defence , apart from locating the places from whence they were being fired and subject the launch sites to intensive bombing . |
| 8 | Finally , apart from demoting the status of fitness for purpose and reversing the Aswan case , this list does not change the present law , but merely removes uncertainty and renders the implied term easier and less uncertain in application . |
| 9 | Apart from creating a catastrophe point where an extra per cent of votes can theoretically send a party from 15 to 66 per cent of the council ( the French have never been comfortable with simple democracy ) this , also theoretically , gives minority parties a voice . |
| 10 | Apart from creating the excuse for a dispute about the procedure , it also perpetuates the misunderstanding of the differences between the two procedures : see 15.5.6 . |
| 11 | Marjorie Bilbow , in Cinema TV Today , described the production as ‘ very plodding and unimaginative ’ , and Clyde Jeavons wrote in the British Film Institute 's Monthly Film Bulletin , ‘ Apart from accommodating a number of half-hearted and totally unmemorable songs and dance routines , William Sterling has taken few liberties with the original narrative , but at the same time he has divested it of both its charm and its potential for cinematic comic invention . |
| 12 | Many of these systems operate with no human effort or skill apart from switching the equipment on and checking that there is sufficient paper in the computer printer or plotter and so on . |
| 13 | Apart from getting the teacher 's overview of what happened , how it related to what he had planned , and how he regarded the unit 's contribution to events , the observer can often learn more about individual episodes . |
| 14 | Apart from sending a frisson of alarm down the spines of all those who cherish their national sovereignty , such a forecast , if only half true , does point to the emergence of a democratic gap . |
| 15 | On the other hand , it is argued ( E. R. Dew , 56 Lqw Society 's Gazette 365 ) that the most likely ‘ other reason ’ for which an agreement might be void or unenforceable , apart from containing a provision against application to the court , would be precisely the want of consideration if the agreement be not under seal ; the legislature , it is urged on this view , would not have made inroads on the fundamental requirement of valuable consideration in a contract not under seal , by a provision purporting to deal with the maintenance rights of a wife . |
| 16 | Apart from printing the sort of story that incensed John Small , newspapers have also helped to foster and perpetuate other myths about foxes . |
| 17 | In Lament , quite apart from using a melee of ancient East/West instruments and sounds , and these in tiny shreds and smudges , he creates instrumental theatre , manipulating the stillness by confounding our expectations . |
| 18 | For instance , if we happen to witness the fall from the cliff-top proposed above , there are many other ways in which we might think of the action apart from using the word acrobatic ; we might describe it as athletic , agile , amazing , swift , cat-like , or we might employ any of an indefinitely large number of similes along the lines of with the speed of a gibbon . |
| 19 | Apart from using the ends of the sausages in sauces , it is generally best not to cook with these meats but just to enjoy them cold . |
| 20 | Apart from seeing the replacement of LNER-design inner-suburban Class 306s , Colchester , Southend , Bishop 's Stortford , Hertford and Chingford-line travellers will have to wait until the 1990s for their new stock . |
| 21 | ‘ Another reason for moving here , apart from outgrowing the London pottery , was the Japanese . |
| 22 | The dog is with his owner for the greater part of the weekend and , through the week , the dog is road walked to produce fitness and show condition , so the ordinary show dog , apart from receiving the care and love of his owner , receives exercise and mental stimulus and is bonded with his owner by a common purpose . |
| 23 | Apart from costing the lives of countless millions of animals each year , its production is also causing starvation for millions all over the world . |
| 24 | Apart from wielding the stick of trade sanctions — a worrying measure — the main option will be the carrot of cash transfers . |
| 25 | Apart from guaranteeing the independence of central bankers , the scheme would also usefully encourage them in those habits of prudence and careful husbandry which are so necessary to their calling . |
| 26 | Apart from deleting the theme in order to highlight the rhematic element , it is also possible to use punctuation in written language to signal an unusual arrangement of clause elements into tone groups . |
| 27 | Apart from providing a sense of continuing support , a follow-up interview allows the therapist to assess the progress since the end of treatment , and offer praise and encouragement if appropriate . |
| 28 | Apart from providing a mechanism for the transmission of payments , the other important role of the banks is to provide financial intermediation . |
| 29 | Apart from providing an opportunity for observing and talking to the patient , and thereby learning more about his problems and mental state , this initial period also has other purposes . |
| 30 | The fundamental issue , apart from stemming the tide of federalism , is the destiny of Europe as a whole , and that includes the recently liberated countries of Eastern Europe . |