Example sentences of "apart from the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Gilligan sees this as a morality of responsibility that stands apart from the morality of rights underlying Kohlberg 's conception .
2 There are a number of qualifications to this prediction , apart from the possibility of economies of scale discussed above .
3 There are many reasons , apart from the trading of favours , for a legislator or bureau-crat going along with the wishes of the man in the White House .
4 Apart from the Society of Friends , there was no established organisation ready to come to the help of children under threat in Czechoslovakia .
5 Quite apart from the drafting of contracts the task of the engineer involves a great deal of communication , much of it by the written word .
6 Apart from the subject of drivers ' hours , the rules relating to the fitment and use of tachographs on European journeys need to be thoroughly understood .
7 The only thing that was to him suspicious , was apart from the normality of liaisons at the hospital , there was no mention of a man in her life .
8 Apart from the wad of Reichsmarks that Joyce had acquired at the bureau de change , they had nothing at all .
9 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 .
10 Apart from the difficulty of chambers , the ordinary person who has no special connections normally finds it easier to get some kind of start on the common law side , where there is a great deal of small work , in county courts and the criminal courts ; on the Chancery side there is no criminal work and all the civil work tends to be fairly important .
11 Your letters have been coming quite regularly , and apart from the couple of letters which reached me via Sian , nothing has interrupted the flow , and they are a comfort , especially as the children seem to be getting on so well , and the computer course as well .
12 Apart from the system of schools which has been introduced by the Europeans , there is no special school building in the Gikuyu sense of the word : the homestead is the school .
13 The only sound , apart from the crunch of feet on snow and leaves , was of Granny Morkie eating .
14 Apart from the singleness of subjects and the number of staff who are involved , their findings could , without stretching , apply to leadership of primary schools .
15 Apart from the addition of variables derived from the two new questions , the other tables do not exactly correspond .
16 As fibre-rich waste products are broken down in the large bowel , a number of products are formed apart from the release of calories .
17 Apart from the conclusion of alliances with other nobles , and the exploitation of casual sources of income , a major instrument of expansion was the diplomatic marriage .
18 A healthy diet is now considered the most effective way of treating this condition , apart from the use of drugs .
19 Apart from the use of referenda , which are a regular feature of politics in the United States , Switzerland and some other countries , jury service , as an obligation which may in principle fall upon any citizen , is almost the sole vestige of direct citizen participation in law-making and administration which survives in modern democracies .
20 Apart from the battery of robots and electric motors under computer control , firms are selling gadgets for teaching the principles of microprocessors .
21 It must not be claimed that anyone can sense time itself apart from the movement of things or their restful immobility . ’
22 Apart from the matter of inaccuracies , mentioned above , there are other factors which hinder selection decisions .
23 Quite apart from the spate of redundancies that began in 1990 , turnover in saleroom experts is fairly high at the lower levels .
24 Apart from the waste of resources , some tests , for example X-rays , may themselves be bad for health .
25 Apart from the confusion of squadrons , the implications of his having been engaged in this quite different operation were serious .
26 But apart from the number of police rapidly increasing , their technological and quasi-military capacities shamelessly strengthened , their discretionary powers of apprehension , interrogation , detention , and arrest liberally extended , and new prisons built or old ones extensively refurbished ( all with money the government claims the country has not got to maintain existing standards of education , health , unemployment welfare , and social services ) , nothing much justifies the optimism .
27 Whatever he did , I had the remaining tricks apart from the Ace of Spades .
28 Apart from the destruction of schools , teachers are regarded as important community members and are often more than usually politicized .
29 The undernoted sections mention some additional services provided by banks apart from the acceptance of deposits , granting of loans and funds transmission .
30 Apart from the absence of tracks , there are big gaps in the accommodation market .
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