Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] for [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were empty except for a caretaker or two . |
| 2 | It was empty except for an ox and ass who snorted and brayed a greeting . |
| 3 | He picked up the canvas shoulder-bag , which was empty except for the map and a compass . |
| 4 | The place is empty but for the bar and three or four slightly-built lads shooting pool without words . |
| 5 | Then he went , leaving the house empty but for the woman and the Overseer . |
| 6 | It seems likely that for a parent or spouse , the experience may well be comparable to the sorts of events and difficulties implicated in depression . |
| 7 | The body 's asleep , drunk , inert except for the arm and the hand . |
| 8 | It 's not a college , or even a church , but a Victorian town house , really rather unremarkable but for the fact that the man tipped to become the next American President used to live there . |
| 9 | Yet I must still think it my duty , without reconsidering whether or not it be worthwhile , to continue this plain record of what ( I know ) need not have been plain but for the accident that I am a niggler without impulse , not an imaginative artist . |
| 10 | In this it distinguishes between the ‘ intrinsic ’ and ‘ schema ’ aesthetic except for an insistence that depth counter responses be firmly based upon observations of the perceptual surface . |
| 11 | His scrawny body was naked except for a loincloth and the tattered remains of a jerkin . |
| 12 | She was naked except for a tampax and a lot of acrylic paint . |
| 13 | as if to ensure , however , that we can not interpret this work as a declaration of Gironella , s ideas about race and colour in Mexico , there exists another version , almost identical but for the fact that this is a white queen . |
| 14 | The A G M , the last two years people have said well there 's not a great deal of point in coming along other than for a drink because er the committee 's got it all sorted out , you know , beforehand as regards who 's doing what . |
| 15 | Prior to the passing of the SGSA , s 7(4) of the UCTA prevented exclusion of liability for breach of warranties of title and quiet possession " arising by implication of law " ( see s 7(1) ) , in business contracts ( other than for the sale and hire purchase of goods ) under which possession or ownership of goods was transferred , unless such exclusion passed the test of reasonableness . |