Example sentences of "except for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If we restrict the focus to the same five newspapers — The Mirror , The Times , News of the World , Sunday People and the London Evening Standard — and for the years 1971 and 1978 include the Sun , we see what appears to be a steady proportion of one-quarter of this growing number of trials reported , except for a temporary surge in 1978 to two-fifths . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Whatever it was they were after , it was an unknown quantity , unknown , that is , except for a lethal ferocity . |
| 4 | establish the principle that when your office door is open you are willing to accept ‘ drop in callers ’ but when it is shut you can not be disturbed except for a real emergency |
| 5 | He loved soccer and could n't remember baseball ; neither could he remember California , except for a vague recollection of sunshine and a white house and what seemed an enormous swimming pool , although Clare laughed and told him it had really been quite small — for LA . |
| 6 | The house looked quiet and the same , except for a strange car parked by the front door . |
| 7 | Beyond the gates , the channel which carved its way through salt-marshes and mud flats , out into the Estuary , was empty , except for a sluggish trickle at the bottom . |
| 8 | On the chest of drawers was a photograph of his elder brother Pedro in uniform , his pale patrician face the image of Angel 's , except for a black moustache . |
| 9 | After a theatrical demonstration by the instructor , everyone managed to perform this procedure satisfactorily , except for a young Second lieutenant medical student , who landed badly and broke his ankle . |
| 10 | The other friends were all Parisian except for a young couple , Rumanians living in Paris , distant relations of Teodor . |
| 11 | ‘ Except for a three-minute pause in a back-of-beyond , we stop at Thunder Bay for twenty-five minutes at ten-fifty tomorrow morning . ’ |
| 12 | No radiometric ages less than about 3000 Ma have been obtained for any lunar samples except for a tentative date of 850 Ma for material thought to have been ejected and heated by the formation of Copernicus ( Figure 6.7 ) . |
| 13 | He was nude except for a drooping condom . |
| 14 | To our relief , she missed out on all the formalities except for a perfunctory cry of ‘ GamBei ’ ( ‘ Down the hatch ’ ) and ‘ Greetings to our British friends ’ , and concentrated on tucking into the excellent meal — she gave the impression that she had come for the food and drink and nothing else . |
| 15 | First , it meant that ‘ no man [ was ] punishable or [ could ] be made to suffer in body or goods except for a distinct breach of law established in the ordinary legal manner before the ordinary courts of the land ’ . |
| 16 | Dicey himself argued that it comprised " at least three distinct though kindred conceptions " : " That no man is punishable or can be lawfully made to suffer in body or goods except for a distinct breach of law established in the ordinary legal manner before the ordinary courts of the land " ; that " no man is above the law [ and ] every man , whatever be his rank or condition , is subject to the ordinary law of the realm and amenable to the jurisdiction of the ordinary tribunals " ; and that " the general principles of the constitution [ are ] the result of judicial decisions determining the rights of private persons in particular cases brought before the courts . " |
| 17 | At the end of the five-year period , no money had been invested in projects for broadcasting except for a new medium wave transmitter in Dar es Salaam . |
| 18 | Mergers are generally viewed favourably , except for a limited number deemed to be ‘ against the public interest ’ . |
| 19 | Pictures are obvious examples of iconic signs ; individual words , on the other hand , are generally symbolic signs , except for a limited number of cases such as those of onomatopoeia . |
| 20 | She wore no jewellery except for a simple band around her wedding finger . |
| 21 | Alone , that is , except for a skinny black dog in his lap . |
| 22 | These haematological and biochemical parameters , however , were not related to the presence of perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody reactivity , except for a negative correlation between the presence of perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies and serum albumin concentration ( r=-0.215 ; p=0.031 ) . |
| 23 | He opened the door to a large room completely bare except for a vast trestle-table that filled it from wall to wall . |
| 24 | But everything he hit went straight to keeper Tony Coton , except for a late penalty that hit a post . |
| 25 | None was formally invited , except for a late and not very attractive offer to Montagu , but Lloyd George would probably have been glad to have two or three of them had he believed that they would accept . |
| 26 | There is no significant difference in long term survival between Child 's A and B patients except for a higher mortality in the first two months after surgery in Child 's B ( six of 19 v three of 24 ) ; this largely accounts for the difference in the overall survival between the surgery and sclerotherapy groups . |
| 27 | To his right was the stretch of water enclosed , except for a narrow outlet , by the peninsula . |
| 28 | Upside-down canoes , red , blue , yellow and green , lay in a neat line near where the beach gave way to the majestic rocks that , except for a narrow opening , closed off the cove from the main part of Okanagan Lake . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Except for a slight flair towards the hem , the skirt was straight . |