Example sentences of "except for [art] few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 What they all have in common is a basic commitment that the vines should have been cultivated without the use of chemical fertilisers , pesticides , fungicides or herbicides ( except for a few age-old things like Bordeaux mixture ) , and the wine made without chemical additives or agents — apart from a few natural and/or traditional substances .
2 The Articles were registered in 1953 under the CA 1948 , and except for a few standard exclusions , largely adopt Table A , in force at that time .
3 Bowing to the inevitable , Kenya started to remove the controls in 1988 and had eliminated them all by 1990 , except for a few agricultural products like maize .
4 Most woodland is now found west of the River Arun , the downs further east being notably lacking in tree cover except for a few extensive forestry plantations , which now form a high proportion of all downland woodland .
5 In the heat of the midday sun we reached Ingleborough 's companion top of Simon Fell , deserted except for a few inquisitive Swaledale sheep .
6 Small , rather tame and confiding aquatic waders , much the smallest birds likely to be seen swimming , except for a few all-dark petrels .
7 I fancied that except for a few corrugated iron roofs it still looked the same as when he had been here .
8 I wandered round the spectacular mall , deserted except for a few armed security guards , paint-smart in peaked hats and short-sleeved shirts .
9 Except for a few stereotyped responses from the wilder churches — Pastor David Powell of the Rotherham Pentecostal Church actually banned gays from his services — and a few jibes from the local National Front , we were always treated politely , listened to with interest and generally well received .
10 But the usual squashing and stretching still applies to most projection prints , except for a few large cinemas in major cities which are able to afford the expensive 70mm projectors .
11 These islands are uninhabited , except for a few wild goats , rabbits and birds .
12 For the Balinese the ocean has always been the underworld , and source of their demons ; except for a few intrepid fishermen , they used to approach it only to scatter the cremated ashes of their dead .
13 While the French , probably for nationalist reasons , stuck to their own style — with a consequent isolation of French natural science ( though not of French mathematics ) — except for a few celebrated individuals , the Germans did not .
14 But , except for a few dedicated monarchists , Central Europeans are not dreaming of a restored Habsburg dynasty .
15 Except for a few specialised publications such as The Art Newspaper , only a handful of quality papers regularly deal with issues concerning the art trade : the International Herald Tribune ; the German Handelsblatt and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ; and in the United States , the New York Times .
16 Once assured of their willingness to adopt the patriot cause the ‘ people ’ turned to their natural , local leaders and disappeared from the stage except for a few significant reappearances and a few protests against ‘ the rich ’ .
17 It 's trying to forget it , and trying to turn it into a more reassuring manifest content , so it starts to dream about it , but the latent thoughts are so disturbing it never succeeds and consequently the whole dream work , this process of disguising the latent content , just does n't get anywhere at all , except for a few minor details .
18 Therefore , to whom belongs the credit for this near miraculous escape from falling victim yet again to socialist ideology and dogma , which is in decline and disrepute everywhere , except for a few Third World countries ?
  Next page