Example sentences of "[adj] apart from [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If the service , which is free apart from the cost of the phone call , proves successful , it may be supplemented by others dealing with information on areas of concern such as the environment .
2 Use of the network is free apart from the charge involved in linking with the nearest KIDLINK network ‘ node ’ .
3 The dining room was empty apart from a couple of staff members who were laying tables for breakfast .
4 The chief problem with thallium was that it did n't seem to be used for anything much apart from the manufacture of optical lenses of a high refractive index — camera lenses , for example .
5 ‘ When I told him that the van was standard apart from a roll cage he found it even more difficult to accept .
6 The river too was uniformly dark apart from the ripples and eddies which were thin ribbons of light .
7 She really was very pretty apart from the scowl .
8 It is uninhabited apart from the RSNC wardens .
9 She supposed she had lost the baby but she herself felt reasonably comfortable apart from a plastic pipe stuck into the back of her hand which was sore and meant she could n't move .
10 Those are really fine apart from the fact that it 's the wrong foot ha .
11 All further investigations were negative apart from the finding of gall stones in three patients .
12 I 'm grand apart from the weakness . ’
13 An old-fashioned green-painted bath on claw feet , a lot of bottles on the glass shelf in front of a gilded , slightly spotted mirror , everything tidy apart from a wad of used cotton wool on the edge of the sink .
14 For neither he nor anyone in his following had anything at all apart from the clothes they stood up in and their weapons and horses .
15 All was well algae-wise apart from a smear of brown algae on the glass , some beard algae on the bogwood and on some of the slow-growing plants and what I now know to be the tell-tale sign of a thin greasy film on the water surface , which is present long before it thickens up into slime algae .
16 The second sentence is perfectly unexceptionable apart from the fact that it appears to be in flat contradiction of the first : involuntary unemployment is a ‘ theoretical construct ’ — surely theoretical constructs fall within the purview of economic theory ! — which was developed to explain the very real and painful phenomenon of large-scale unemployment .
17 Here , however , she was alone apart from a couple of men seated on stools next to the bar , and a yellow Labrador slumbering at their feet .
18 After this , that thoroughfare became wide and straight and was not built-up until the 1920's apart from the provision of a cemetery near the borough boundary .
19 No other information was available apart from the price — £45 .
20 For the above equation to be satisfied the expression in the bracket must be equal to zero apart from the gradient of a scalar function ( remember
21 Is there anything that 's unclear apart from the series of lectures ?
22 Of the many hills within the city boundaries the Calton has probably more interesting features than any apart from the Castle Rock .
23 An earlier court hearing was told that the woman awoke one morning to be confronted by McKenzie , who was naked apart from a pair of underpants on his head .
24 Duncan stood there , naked apart from a towel wrapped round his mid-section .
25 A curious feature of the scene is that the worshipping woman seems to be naked apart from an anklet and what may be a sacral knot tied round her neck .
26 It is to be noted that the section only applies where overpayment of rates is not otherwise recoverable , and it plainly did not occur to the House in that case that the overpayment might be recoverable apart from the section .
27 she ate all of that apart from a couple of spoonfuls
28 As I said to Kay it 's Terry that does all , he gets the money in , he pays all the bills , Muriel brings him the bills , I said he does all that apart from the fact I said he spent the whole day yesterday , the whole morning yesterday here clearing this , oh she said I did as well , erm you know help , I said what you , but as well as clearing
29 The standard Mk3 open second as built with tables for four apart from the twin face–to–back seats at the centre partition .
30 It was actually alright apart from the cushions on the couch .
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