Example sentences of "[pron] apart from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Nobody apart from an accredited lobby correspondent is allowed into the lobby room without prior invitation but eventually most members of the Cabinet as well as senior members of the Opposition find it desirable to seek an invitation to meet this group of journalists . |
| 3 | This public image has been important in fostering a perception of Mrs Thatcher as somebody apart from the Cabinet . |
| 4 | With his powers of observation , his smooth , fast-moving narratives and his ability to make characters live on the screen , Hitchcock set himself apart from the rest of British cinema . |
| 5 | Theuderic I seems to have kept himself apart from the other sons of Clovis , though this could , in part , be explained by his greater age . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was late in the afternoon when we arrived , and Taylor took me for a drive through the town , which apart from the centre had been badly damaged . |
| 8 | It must not be claimed that anyone can sense time itself apart from the movement of things or their restful immobility . ’ |
| 9 | Walker , who apart from the Prime Minister herself ( Margaret Thatcher ) and Sir Geoffrey Howe was the only remaining member of the Conservative Cabinet formed in 1979 ( and who had also been a member of Edward Heath 's Cabinet in 1970-74 ) , had for a considerable time been regarded as in many ways out of sympathy with certain aspects of Thatcher 's political philosophy . |
| 10 | It 's interesting for you apart from the child . |
| 11 | My chair and everything apart from the rod , landing net and loaf , are left up the bank . |
| 12 | They nearly all contain the extraordinary adrenalin tug that marks pop off from everything apart from the madder bits of techno — songs that make you feel like you are on speed are harder to write than ones that make you cry — FACT . |
| 13 | These documents , I mean it deals with ev everything apart from the main things about |
| 14 | But on the day I went to Makaha I got distracted by a shapely wave and a firm offshore and met no one apart from a lifeguard in the tower and a girl on the beach . |
| 15 | I think the mi yes , no one did the migration one apart from the Dean , he did a famine , er essay . |
| 16 | This would seem to mark Alcester as something apart from the general category , and it is worth noting that the site lies almost equidistant , as the crow flies , from the major cities of Wroxeter , Leicester , Gloucester and Cirencester . |
| 17 | Okay , now anybody apart from the one , who did you actually divert to by the way ? |
| 18 | Despite his appearance , the erstwhile executioner treated the princes with a rough kindliness that set him apart from the other attendants — taking it upon himself to ensure that the food was to their liking and the fire well-tended . |
| 19 | Seth rarely talked about the things that set him apart from the rest of mankind . |
| 20 | So we share his horror as he observes in himself , experiences almost passively — as if it were happening to someone else — the emergence of the tempting desire to murder Duncan ( ‘ suggestion ’ still had the sense of diabolic temptation ) : There , with amazing speed , and as if parenthetically ( ‘ whose murder yet ’ ) we become privy to the secret that sets him apart from the others on stage , the goal to which all his energies will ultimately be directed . |
| 21 | He had changed physically but the movement of his body down the carriage for coffee still had that freedom that set him apart from the suited composure of the brief case brigade that filled the train . |
| 22 | This sets him apart from the ordinary and gives him a reason for living . |
| 23 | His petty-bourgeois family background , his status as an intellectual conversant with the rites of bourgeois education , values and culture , his sophisticated literary and critical talents as a writer , all conspired to set him apart from the communist party leadership and rank and file members alike . |
| 24 | There was something about him that set him apart from the other men in the room . |
| 25 | He was standing aloof , black-haired , broad-shouldered and narrow-hipped , taller than the average Italian , an air of contained , but absolute authority setting him apart from the noisy , gesticulating mob . |
| 26 | Squeeze them in sure we 'll find somewhere for them to go , vacate , so long as I get a kiss from everybody apart from the boys and |
| 27 | It was her air of nervous tension that set her apart from the other passengers as she jumped from the train at Stowbridge , searching the platform with a fraught expression that only partially lifted when she caught sight of Melissa . |
| 28 | Not much flavour , but a fibrous-to-spongy chewiness which sets it apart from the average savoury snack . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , no-one 's ever seen it apart from the Headmaster . |
| 30 | The room has a comfortable 1940s feel about it apart from the oriel window of the chapel c.1385 which is a beautiful and important example of high Gothic . |