Example sentences of "except for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nanking is a very green city with beautiful plane-trees lining the main streets , where ( as in all Chinese cities ) there is comparatively little traffic except for crowded buses and trolley-buses , and of course hordes of pedestrians and cyclists . |
| 2 | Teams are all male except for two women 's teams who will be playing at 6pm . |
| 3 | Equally little is known about the urban cemeteries which must exist , except for two inhumations found in 1920 near the main road leading south from the crossroads . |
| 4 | At the latter , he found the building deserted except for two strikers on guard-duty . |
| 5 | Oh , about the same except for two strangers who happened to pop in , county types . ’ |
| 6 | He gives the traditional account of how a merchant ship was pillaged in the Red Sea and its crew and passengers massacred except for two boys who were brought to Ella Amida in Aksum . |
| 7 | The off-licence was empty except for two drop-outs buying canned beer : the proprietor contrived to address Scarlet and Constance without once taking his eyes off his other customers , not even as he wrapped a bottle of Smirnoff and extracted six cans of Long Life from under the glass counter . |
| 8 | Yeah hang on hang on , hang on , hang on no no no , I have every Parker in this house except for two sets . |
| 9 | Before Christmas I found this machine at a car boot sale in new condition for only £3 , it has never been used and except for two screws missing and instructions , it seems to be in working order . |
| 10 | ‘ But I felt like I played very well , except for two shots all day . ’ |
| 11 | Inside her pickup she was oblivious to the harvest dust caking the dashboard , sticking the panel windows open , masking the windscreen except for two fans of clear glass where the wipers reached . |
| 12 | These decisions will be subject to a requirement to consult the head and , except for non-teaching posts of less than 16 hours a week , the CEO . |
| 13 | The pond is virtually sterile except for algal mats which grow only at points about its edges where fresh water is available ( Harris et al . , |
| 14 | and it is quiet , except for young owls |
| 15 | The convention lifted the previous 1948 convention 's general ban on night work for women ( except for pregnant women ) while also improving conditions for night workers regardless of sex . |
| 16 | Ideally we should include configuration interaction ( CI ) , but this is rarely possible except for small molecules . |
| 17 | Generally speaking , walls within I metre of the relevant boundary should be entirely protected , except for small openings . |
| 18 | Love left £50 to the poor and , except for small legacies to his daughter and next of kin , he divided his estate between his wife Elizabeth and son John . |
| 19 | They were concerned almost entirely with smell , except for small patches that had inputs from other sensory modalities , probably mainly touch . |
| 20 | Structure plans have to be approved by the Secretary of State and except for small amendments , he generally accepts them after he has received a report by a panel who hold ‘ an Examination in Public ’ . |
| 21 | Among his close relatives , Gregory numbered bishops of Lyons , Clermont and Langres , and he claimed that all except for five bishops of Tours were related to him . |
| 22 | None the less , except for specific mutations to key enzymes in rare syndromes of familial diabetes and the recently identified link between some kindreds of maturity onset diabetes of the young and mutations to the glucokinase gene in liver and β cells , the gene(s) causing the bulk of cases of non-insulin dependent diabetes remain obscure . |
| 23 | Except for eight patients who had never been treated with antisecretory drugs at the time of the study , the remainder took part in a prospective follow up protocol with estimation of several parameters , at each visit ( every 6–12 months ) . |
| 24 | 4 is devoted to the consideration of polymers as heterogenous materials , or composites since , except for amorphous polymers , most polymers which crystallize can be considered as at least two-phrase materials . |
| 25 | Written application had been made in advance , and , except for four theses on loan , all had been collected together for this study either within the thesis area or in the thesis collection area of the Stack , to which access was permitted on this occasion . |
| 26 | Except for multiple bonds with very high force constants or for single bonds between light first-row elements ( e.g. C-F , B-O ) , all fall below 1000 cm -1 . |
| 27 | As there was very little chance of her returning to the dale , except for occasional visits , Bob had succeeded , with a bit of self-discipline , in putting her out of his mind . |
| 28 | National capital aids are not eligible for EEC reimbursement if they exceed the levels permitted under Article 4.2. except for certain grants ( including those for land improvement or for the protection/improvement of the environment ) . |
| 29 | The basic problem is that the way in which the Act confers rule-making powers is deficient [ except for certain powers dealing , for instance , with the regulation of unit trusts ] . |
| 30 | except for certain products subject to quotas or special licences . |