Example sentences of "apart from [art] brief " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senna led from the start and , apart from a brief skirmish in the opening laps , never came under serious pressure . |
| 2 | Even so , there has already been one triumph : inflation fell to 6% in the year to the third quarter , the lowest rate for 18 years apart from a brief spell in 1984–85 . |
| 3 | Apart from a brief spurt of publicity , the futile exercise did neither The Wedding Present , nor the two bands involved , a great deal of good . |
| 4 | Furse had no personal experience of imperial administration , and until he began the series of journeys associated with his work of recruitment , had seen nothing of the empire apart from a brief visit to Ceylon . |
| 5 | And , apart from a brief marriage much earlier , Sammy Davis Jnr remained single until his marriage in 1960 to Swedish actress May Britt . |
| 6 | A period of teacher training followed , after which Blamey returned to teach at the Regent Street Polytechnic where he remained , apart from a brief period during the war , until it combined with the Chelsea Polytechnic . |
| 7 | The steel control remained in force ( apart from a brief interval from June 1950 to February 1951 when shortages none the less remained ) until May 1953 ; building controls lasted into 1954 . |
| 8 | Apart from a brief pilot study in Edinburgh it was not undertaken . |
| 9 | Apart from a brief period during the First World War , when the Royal Flying Corps had use of the area inside the circuit , Brooklands was used continuously from 1907 to the outbreak of the Second World War . |
| 10 | It had not been sighted for nearly a month apart from a brief report by a shepherd in Northumberland which sounded like a possibility but was vague — and the Zoo conceded that if he was still alive he could certainly survive like any other golden eagle in the wild . |
| 11 | Apart from a brief period after 1964 when prescription charges were removed , these charges have remained ever since and been increased regularly . |
| 12 | The following year he registered for study in philosophy and theology at the University of Leyden and , apart from a brief return to Rostock , remained in The Netherlands until he took up a post at the University of Copenhagen in June 1648 . |
| 13 | It was becoming painfully obvious that apart from a brief , overpowering lust there was no reciprocation of her fragile feelings . |
| 14 | A Scottish-born CA and fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants he may be but , apart from a brief initial period in a practising firm and then Lothian Regional Council , before coming to Provincial three years ago he had fairly rapidly made a successful impact in senior general management in retail banking , with TSB in Scotland . |
| 15 | There are unlikely to be any Scottish Conservative Back Benchers either , not only because there are so few of them but because none of them has participated in this debate , apart from a brief intervention by the hon. and learned member for Perth and Kinross ( Sir N. Fairbairn ) that could hardly have been described as serious participation . |
| 16 | Apart from the brief cold spell in late November , we have had very few hard frosts . |
| 17 | Apart from the brief chairmanship of Desmond Boal , the senior party leadership was drawn exclusively from Free Presbyterian circles until the early 1980s , when Peter Robinson started attending a gospel hall and Sammy Wilson , an Elim Pentecostalist , replaced Jim Allister as press officer . |
| 18 | Reference has also been made to the early history of the Slovenes , who never controlled a state of their own , apart from the brief episode of Samo , the ruler of a seventh-century Slavonic empire which includes part of modern Slovenia . |