Example sentences of "[adj] except the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the fins are clear except the dorsal fin which has black at the base moving up into light yellow with a dark black edging to the dorsal fin tipped with yellow . |
| 2 | Exposed shore dog-whelks ( in Osborne 's view ) fit all this except the broad dispersal ability . |
| 3 | When he has tovarisch say , ‘ Nothing I build ’ , this is to be understood not allegorically but literally : working of stone , either architecturally or sculpturally , was for Pound the register of culture — a conviction which he shared in his lifetime with few except the British art-critic whom he knew and esteemed , Adrian Stokes . |
| 4 | He was craning his neck to look up but nothing was visible except the rolling grey mist that had almost reached the jeep . |
| 5 | She was too tired to be aware of much except the slight headache which a long journey always gave her , yet she felt curiously light-headed and carefree . |
| 6 | Swapo 's wish for an executive president was opposed by all except the Namibian National Front , which holds one seat . |
| 7 | All except the new stranger , the Englishman . |
| 8 | Two years later , in his essay on Rabelais , the list of enemies has altered — all except the first item : ‘ Railways , factories , chemists and mathematicians . ’ |
| 9 | I said ‘ NO ’ to them all except the right one . |
| 10 | Men , women , and all except the smallest children , were on their hands and knees , busily washing every inch of the deck , supervised by the third mate and half a dozen rough-looking sailors , who kept them at it every second . |
| 11 | All except the latter unit meant some form of withdrawal from the use of acute admission facilities at either Claybury or Friern . |
| 12 | All except the latter were lawyers , mostly flourishing lawyers . |
| 13 | The problem of insufficient staff to be able easily to absorb absences from the workplace to attend group training sessions was commented on by all except the largest libraries , with some libraries apparently regarding this lack of ( indirect ) staff resource as paramount to preventing any in-service training programmes being carried out , although as was emphasized by The Library Association Working Party on Training : |
| 14 | The abolition of fees , in all except the direct-grant schools , by the Act of 1944 , sharpened the competitive and selective character of the schools . |
| 15 | Everyone 's position was dubious in some respect : no one had been able to stand aloof from the efforts of Philip and Mary to turn England back to popery , and all except the few convinced Romanists in the village hoped that the days of compulsory religion and inquisitions would now be over . |
| 16 | But they made no response , all except the little boy , who smiled and dusted the air with his hand . |
| 17 | " They all got married , " said Mrs Denham , " all except the little one , and she 's still at Oxford . |
| 18 | All except the 25 pence of the £4.25 entrance fee goes to the rider coming second . |
| 19 | That was the unspoken alternative ( or at least unspoken by all except the red crow , who cheerily brought the subject up on every third or fourth visit ) , that was the easy way out . |
| 20 | One can imagine two people enjoying themselves affectionately together , and nothing else existing except the barest background to physical existence . |
| 21 | Some may have visited the other side , but most have stayed at home living with political , economic and cultural systems that have very little in common except the original reason that they came into being — the biggest war the world had yet seen . |
| 22 | Modern configurational analysis ( see , for example , Hopfinger ( 1972 ) ) may afford methods of rigorously relating molecular energetics to mechanical properties — but for any except the simplest molecules the size of the computer required at present precludes the use of this method . |