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

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1 This public image has been important in fostering a perception of Mrs Thatcher as somebody apart from the Cabinet .
2 With his powers of observation , his smooth , fast-moving narratives and his ability to make characters live on the screen , Hitchcock set himself apart from the rest of British cinema .
3 It was late in the afternoon when we arrived , and Taylor took me for a drive through the town , which apart from the centre had been badly damaged .
4 It must not be claimed that anyone can sense time itself apart from the movement of things or their restful immobility . ’
5 It 's interesting for you apart from the child .
6 My chair and everything apart from the rod , landing net and loaf , are left up the bank .
7 But on the day I went to Makaha I got distracted by a shapely wave and a firm offshore and met no one apart from a lifeguard in the tower and a girl on the beach .
8 I think the mi yes , no one did the migration one apart from the Dean , he did a famine , er essay .
9 So we share his horror as he observes in himself , experiences almost passively — as if it were happening to someone else — the emergence of the tempting desire to murder Duncan ( ‘ suggestion ’ still had the sense of diabolic temptation ) : There , with amazing speed , and as if parenthetically ( ‘ whose murder yet ’ ) we become privy to the secret that sets him apart from the others on stage , the goal to which all his energies will ultimately be directed .
10 Seth rarely talked about the things that set him apart from the rest of mankind .
11 Squeeze them in sure we 'll find somewhere for them to go , vacate , so long as I get a kiss from everybody apart from the boys and
12 ‘ Well , no-one 's ever seen it apart from the Headmaster .
13 The very concept of liberation makes sense only if it is viewed against the backdrop of unjust oppression , and while the notion of unjust oppression no doubt assumes many guises , it is incomprehensible to me how we might understand it apart from the idea of the violation of basic moral rights .
14 The bureaucracy will be remunerated so as to set it apart from the rest of society and reinforce its internal hierarchy .
15 What sets it apart from the crowd is its ability to produce full colour output of a quality undreamed of on a machine with this price tag a couple of years ago .
16 The room has a comfortable 1940s feel about it apart from the oriel window of the chapel c.1385 which is a beautiful and important example of high Gothic .
17 I personally do n't know a lot about it apart from the fact that Arthur Scargill went up there and there was a bit of excitement .
18 This meant very little to me apart from a salary increase and a move from my position at the extreme right of the Cabinet table to the extreme left .
19 Sir Walter Scott called barefoot and ragged wild mountain Scots lads ‘ gillie wetfoots ’ , saying he could not tell them apart from the fairies who ‘ beat the bushes ’ .
20 At the top of the social scale the five largest houses in 1670 had five hearths apiece , which was hardly grandiose but was sufficient to set them apart from the rest .
21 The use in the emperor 's reply of the expression verba precaria is revealing , for it shows already a tendency to treat precatory words as characteristic of trusts , as something which sets them apart from the dispositions of the civil law .
22 Throughout the training programme we discussed the ways in which people are disabled — not by limited ability but by a number of barriers that keep them apart from the activities that the rest of their communities are involved in .
23 It set them apart from the start .
24 An Ornaments Rubric included in the 1559 Prayer Book ordered the use of vestments and the alb and cope during the communion service ; and the 1559 injunctions required the clergy to wear the surplice during services , as well as their distinctive outdoor dress which set them apart from the laity .
25 For the moment he could think of nothing apart from the name .
26 I think everyone 's asleep except for me — I ca n't hear nothing apart from the traffic .
27 ‘ Some fools consider that nothing apart from the body exists , because movement arises from the body .
28 The Situationists were idealists in the sense that they perceived themselves apart from the spectacle , always managing to be ‘ other-than-spectacular ’ , as Levin puts it , so that this became a pre-condition of Situationist practice .
29 Some lyricists manage to keep themselves apart from the song , suggesting things instead of making them obvious , and that approach is maybe better because the listeners have to use their imagination …
30 What apart from the C D
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