Example sentences of "[subord] apart from " in BNC.

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1 There is one place where I can say I am at home , where I can live in peace and quiet with my most beloved father and my dearest sister , where I can do as I like , where apart from the duties of my appointment I am my own master , and where I have a permanent income and yet can go off when I like , and travel every second year …
2 The Jerusalem , or Early Church model , began to predominate , and this meant being with people rather than apart from them .
3 Community and mission belong together and both mean being with people rather than apart from them .
4 I think it has got to stop because apart from anything else it has knock-on consequences for other paediatricians over how strong they are going to feel in dealing with this problem .
5 He drives a Porsche , because apart from being a car that operates in harmony with man , in Conran 's view , it is also beautiful to behold .
6 It barely represented the true drama of the moment , though Nicholson was better informed than most on the subject because apart from being a friend of Polanski , he gleaned first-hand accounts by attending the trial of Manson and his disciples , whose story proved to be more gruesome than even Hollywood could either manufacture or exploit in a movie .
7 We can at least be sure of the time when the town died , because apart from the abrupt halt in telegraph traffic , the big clock on the Military Hospital was found intact in the smouldering ruins , with its hands stopped at 07.52 .
8 The Bismarck film was the most difficult because apart from newsreel sequences of her launching and on exercises in the Baltic , there was no historical material .
9 Few of us felt any sympathy for them , because apart from the beatings which we had received on their accounts , we all knew the rules by now , and being caught and failing in any way was wrong .
10 Similarly , an excess of payments over receipts can not be called a loss because apart from anything else the payments might include the acquisition of assets .
11 I 'm thankful for my good health , you see , because apart from arthritis , you see , I 'm as well as anything and I hope I 'm still in my right mind , you see , but I , now and again , I forget names
12 Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them .
13 Not for its own sake , naturally , but because apart from any useful function that may be fulfilled , it encourages a proper disregard of Self .
14 Do have the mobile though because apart from everything else erm I mean you 've got R A C membership
15 erm at lunchtime I do n't have many children at school holidays because apart from one of them , all of them have one or both parents who are teachers
16 The programme was a proud occasion for the club , since apart from the opening ballet , Aurora 's Wedding , all the works given were by South African choreographers .
17 He seemed not to dislike her , which was odd since apart from him all who knew her were united in this emotion .
18 The tower was converted to a house around the turn of the century and has been lived in ever since apart from a couple of years when architects used it as offices .
19 We had just started our first lectures , when apart from helping to prepare the Sulphonamide paper I was given a weekend off to visit City Temple friends who had started a Community House at Highbury New Park .
20 You do n't even have to be super-fit , as apart from one optional part of the route , the area is very flat !
21 The most important areas of gallery space , again as apart from state institutions , offered to first impressionists and later to expressionists , were provided by Paul Cassirer .
22 I found this strange as apart from 3 years at Leeds , he had been with Sheffield United for 5 years .
23 Erm I would like to take advantage of the things that I have actually done myself as a member of the Stansted Airport Consultative Committee and also as a member of Advisory Committee because I am Stansted representative and we meet from time to time and as apart from transport .
24 But basically , although Brescia , , and Pisa are in the same league as Notts County , how they er fare in the competition does n't really bother Notts County er as apart from their games against Notts .
25 The menu looked promising , though apart from some florid copywriting , a language barrier with our friendly waiter made us none the wiser about his specialities .
26 This last point does n't translate into ideal accuracy and agility , however , for apart from its detached feel it suffers a slow-motion response .
27 For Berkeley , human knowledge must be concerned either with ideas , or with the minds or spirits which perceive them ; for apart from these there is nothing .
28 England lost their most important batsman and bowler from the last two Tests , for apart from Gooch 's broken hand Fraser pulled a rib muscle , and his accuracy was very sorely missed .
29 There seems general agreement that the mind does not work like a camera , faithfully recording everything in front of its lens , for apart from the discrimination of sensations and the filtering out of some of them , the information that is passed on undergoes considerable re-organisation and change so that there is always a discrepancy between the sensory input and what is perceived .
30 His comparatively late marriage did not , however , seriously affect the birth-rate ; for apart from his three legitimate children , Henry acknowledged over twenty illegitimate children .
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