Example sentences of "apart from [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , apart from being a relatively poor performance by international standards , national resources had not grown sufficiently to take account of total need . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Apart from being a major port and ferry terminal , Cherbourg also has an extensive yacht marina , and is of course gateway to the Cotentin peninsula , where many of the bloodiest and most important of the battles of the liberation were fought in the immediate aftermath of the Allied invasion . |
| 5 | To cope with these feelings of helplessness and infantile-like dependency on external events and factors there has to be a myth which allows for the possibility of being heroic , apart from being a martyr . |
| 6 | Apart from being a very expensively-dressed woman , it appears she is willing to risk all to get her own way — never mind her in-laws or the unpleasantness it surrounds the princes with . |
| 7 | ( Is there anything else you would rather be doing at the moment , apart from being a housewife and a mother ? ) |
| 8 | I suspect that , apart from being a most interesting fish for the hobbyist , at some time in the future scientists may come to look upon this fish as particularly interesting because of its many divergences from the normal Mbuna characteristics — in its habitat , less boisterous behaviour , relatively mute coloration , size dimorphism , sexual precocity , large brood size and small fry . |
| 9 | Apart from being a fascinating story , a study of the development of social policy explains much of the present confusion of services , particularly of their administration . |
| 10 | My mother , apart from being a skivvying , she used to go out with along with Mrs , doing the hatched , matched and dispatched department . |
| 11 | Unlike Kyle , Mallaig has nothing much to commend it apart from being a busy fishing port and railhead which is , of course , its sole raison d'etre . |
| 12 | More news about Jack is the announcement that he has handed over the reins of the Midland Embalming School to John Davis who , apart from being a trade embalmer has a varied background in nursing , counselling , laboratory work and school teaching . |
| 13 | Linda Wolfe is , apart from being a trained children 's nurse and midwife , a mother of three young children and two older step-children . |
| 14 | Apart from being a guideline , and not a rigid rule , it is evidence that changes in interest rate expectations are being held , but perhaps behind the scenes approval from the Bank of England has not been forthcoming . |
| 15 | Well , I mean , really what he does is , apart from being a puppy and chewing things , you ca n't tell him off for doing it , because if you do then that 's when he shows , you know , his teeth come back and really he makes you frightened . |
| 16 | Quite apart from being the most down-to-earth thing about us , feet are a subtle source of sensuality . |
| 17 | That big room , apart from being the girls ' bedroom , was our pièce de résistance . |
| 18 | Apart from being an historian , currently engaged on research into the Welton family , whose ancestral home happens to be a couple of miles away . |
| 19 | Apart from being an accomplished violinist , the pupil at Victoria College prep' department also plays the piano and recorder , sings in the local choir , is a ballet and an Irish dancer . |
| 20 | Now Spike , apart from being an excellent navigator , was also something of an amateur Met man and would quote yards of Pick ( an authority on Met forecasting ) at anyone who would listen , and at first he could not believe that we were in an icing situation . |
| 21 | When I come round the Lord 's table , it 's not to make me a better Christian , it 's not to make me a better person , a more religious person , a more spiritual person it 's a confession of faith , apart from being an act of obedience , it is a confession of faith . |