Sentence examples for perfect apart from inspiring English sources

JS Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop A young married woman, Melanie, scours antiques shops to furnish her new home and comes back with an old chaise-longue, which is perfect apart from an unsightly reddish-brown stain.

"The team was practically perfect apart from a couple of actions.

Consumers expect to have their intelligence respected, but they don't expect companies to be perfect, apart from companies like Patagonia or Seventh Generation that have built loyal followings with their strong image of corporate responsibility.

A methodical Fremantle stayed perfect, taking apart Melbourne to record their fifth straight win of the new AFL season.

Why would Edith, who seems in perfect health apart from the fact that she's kind of nervous about not hearing from the man she recently had unprotected sex with before he left the country, be surreptitiously visiting a surgeon?

It's touch-sensitive and the lit-up hot spots are the perfect distance apart.

For me it was pretty much a perfect debut, apart from the fact my mum and dad were not there to see it because I only found out a few hours before kick-off that I was playing and it was impossible for them to get down from Newcastle to Wembley in time.

Tune your open strings to a tuner or a piano, and make sure that they are perfect fifths apart.

We wanted to capture the rehearsal atmosphere, where the focus is on perfecting motion apart from stagecraft and theatrics.

They were perfect readers – tearing apart that which was important to tear apart.

"That's when my little perfect world fell apart," Dolan explains.