Example sentences of "[adj] except for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | o overall er the plan looks reasonably sound except for the which er reflect in the price . |
| 2 | Every detail was clear except for the number-plate . |
| 3 | Most of these are now desolate except for the fifteenth century Church of the Pantanassa , still a convent , and a few others such as the fourteenth century Church of Evangelistria , S. Sophia , c. 1350 , and the fourteenth century Church of Peribleptos . |
| 4 | If they 've got any sense at all they should be I mean they 're getting it for free except for the telephone calls you might use |
| 5 | The hybridisation patterns are different except for the Eco RI fragment of 6.5 kb detected by both probes . |
| 6 | To his annoyance he found that the Treasurer 's office was now completely empty except for the four telephones set down in a row on the bare boards of the floor . |
| 7 | He picked up the canvas shoulder-bag , which was empty except for the map and a compass . |
| 8 | The buildings were empty except for the occasional orderly and the Assistant Commissioner at the other end of the corridor , and sometimes Nikos working late , and he was able to get a lot of work done . |
| 9 | Soundless except for the dull crack of the axe against bone . |
| 10 | The engine seemed to be complete except for the obvious loss of the reduction gear and its housing . |
| 11 | The Supplement , in four volumes , compiled between 1957 and 1985 , is now complete except for the final volume . |
| 12 | The wines are all bone dry except for the Vendage Tardives ( VTs ) , made from 100 per cent late-picked , super-ripe ( but not botrytised ) grapes , and the Selections de Grains Nobles ( SGNs ) made from 100 per cent botrytis-affected fruit — 1989 was a great year for both . |
| 13 | We went in gingerly but as far as one could tell the floor was solid except for the one strip over the missing bit of beam . |
| 14 | Sometimes the names of the authors of the report appear on the title page but , if the report is going out in the name of an organisation , it may be kept impersonal except for the signatures at the end . |
| 15 | Most look similar except for the frame material ; choose this to match your windows if possible . |
| 16 | Icelandic weather is really buggering me about , I decide , and conditions are now near perfect except for the metre of soft snow that lies over everything in sight . |
| 17 | In the nineteenth century , divorce was more or less impossible except for the very wealthy , initially only through a private Act of parliament . |
| 18 | The carpet was in two pieces that did n't match and the cooker was a tabletop model , non-functional except for the hotplate , rescued by Ted from an old Dolphin 20 on its way to being broken up . |
| 19 | The room contained nothing personal except for the dead man 's clothes and these were carefully stored in the great wardrobe and the chest-of-drawers . |
| 20 | The lyrics are pleasantly vague except for the curiously annoyed ‘ Candy Everybody Wants ’ , which veers close to wounded cynicism and nothing much else happens . |
| 21 | The driver 's duty to accord precedence is absolute except for the circumstances mentioned in Burns v Bidder [ 1966 ] 3 All ER 29 . |
| 22 | All this is conventional except for the projection forward of present-day mechanisms and gadgetry . |
| 23 | This implies that unc is diagonal except for the leading ( 2 × 2 ) submatrix . |
| 24 | Rear passengers perch high , which is fine except for the long-bodied , who have to duck the head to make the best of the view . |
| 25 | Some fifteen years ago , it was extended and now goes around the northern tip of the peninsula before turning south for a straight run down the west coast in bleak country , featureless except for the sad ruins of abandoned crofts yet relieved by glorious views across to Skye and the islands of the Inner Sound . |
| 26 | The remainder of that meeting was reasonably unremarkable except for the establishment of the Accident/Incident Data Reporting System ( ADREP ) on which Peter Bardon had done so much hard work with a special panel before the meeting . |
| 27 | Blufton laughed , revealing a line of white teeth , regular except for the two upper canines which had grown forward over the teeth in front . |
| 28 | Agreement with experiment is generally good except for the transverse properties which are sensitive to the choice of array and the method of calculation . |
| 29 | The house was stripped bare except for the furniture , and I suppose Lord Muck will provide that wherever he 's taken them . |
| 30 | The body 's asleep , drunk , inert except for the arm and the hand . |