Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He returned to England in 1844 but was unemployed except for a brief tenure of the post of governor of the new prison in Birmingham in 1849–51 , before dismissal . |
| 2 | The benches are empty except for a solitary figure sitting huddled in a mackintosh , watching with fierce concentration . |
| 3 | The doors to the great white stone building that led to the palatial rotunda were open , the lobby empty except for a single security guard sitting and reading behind the circular information desk . |
| 4 | The field was empty except for a few ewes with young lambs . |
| 5 | The secularisation of Holy Week and Easter now seems complete except for a faithful remnant of practising Christians — about 10 per cent of the population on most calculations . |
| 6 | But the natives were friendly except for a few incidents in Skye . |
| 7 | Where the ground is frozen for most of the year , soils that contain water remain solid except for a brief spell each summer , when they thaw to a depth that varies with latitude and local conditions . |
| 8 | All was dark except for a tiny glimmer of red light . |
| 9 | Everything was dark except for a single patch where the moon shone through the skylight on to the wall . |
| 10 | His skin was like oiled silk , healthily tanned and smooth except for a light sprinkling of curly black hair . |
| 11 | The landlord , a thin ashpole of a man , completely bald except for a stray lock of hair which constantly drooped over his eyes , wiped his greasy hands on a dirty apron , served them and scurried off . |
| 12 | Once the sailor has ‘ climbed the rigging ’ , which is usually an energetic process , he ‘ looks out ’ , remaining stationary except for a slight sway as the boat sails out of harbour . |
| 13 | On other vases , especially on his favourite form , an egg-shaped amphora with narrow neck , like those used for prize oil at the Panathenaic games , he reaches the logical conclusion of this trend : a vase totally black except for a single figure on each side , without even a ground-line ( fig. 106 ) ; the figure is the whole decoration . |
| 14 | He opened the door to a large room completely bare except for a vast trestle-table that filled it from wall to wall . |
| 15 | The room was bare except for a ping-pong table on folding trestle legs . |
| 16 | He was nude except for a drooping condom . |
| 17 | Her earlier fears about what terrors lay in store returned , all the more powerful because for a few minutes she had forgotten them . |
| 18 | They had reached the landing when the first door in the corridor opened and out stepped a man who seemed to have no connection with the boy Andrew Jones , for here was a handsome , well-built and tall man , and he was naked except for a small towel tucked round his waist . |
| 19 | She too was naked except for a small towel around her shoulders . |
| 20 | Jim took up the slack on his own chain and four others , like the Casting-Master almost naked except for a blackened leather apron and tight-fitting skull cap , pulled and cursed the liquid iron on its descent to the earth . |
| 21 | Sitting in the tub , naked except for a top hat , BONO whiles away the evening playing Monopoly with the ancient Chinese philosopher LEI PING ) |
| 22 | Vic feels his blood pressure rising at the thought of his eldest son , who dropped out of university four months ago and has not been usefully occupied since , now swaddled in a duvet upstairs , naked except for a single gold earring , sleeping off last night 's booze . |
| 23 | The scales on the disk extend just into the dorsal edge of the disk , the ventral interradial areas are naked except for a few scales next to the genital slit . |
| 24 | She was lying on her back , naked except for a short wrapover dressing gown from which one blue-veined breast had escaped and lay like a quivering jellyfish against the pink satin . |
| 25 | So when I stumbled against him and threw my arms round his neck he just stood there , unmoving except for a slight step backwards to keep his balance — though I thought I felt his hands touch my waist for just an instant as if they had made an automatic move to hold me which he had cancelled . |
| 26 | The other friends were all Parisian except for a young couple , Rumanians living in Paris , distant relations of Teodor . |
| 27 | On another machine I had , which was operated in a rather dusty atmosphere , an intermittent failure report from the operating system seemed totally inexplicable except for a light layer of dust which had been deposited over everything inside the system box . |
| 28 | Injuries in war and disasters provide numerous anecdotes of the anaesthetic effects of shock ; a doctor in the aftermath of London 's Clapham rail crash of 1988 reported having treated several victims lying or sitting by the track in a state of bewilderment and oblivious of serious wounds ; in one case an ankle was completely severed other than for a few shreds of flesh . |
| 29 | Clearly a PSBR of this order , which is more than 8 per cent of GDP , is not tenable except for a short period . |
| 30 | Clearly a PSBR of this order , which is more than 8 per cent of GDP , is not tenable except for a short period . |