Example sentences of "except [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except for a name that ought to look familiar to readers of Alexandre Dumas , because as Aramis it is that of one of the Three Musketeers . |
| 2 | Except for a film version of Leoncavallo 's Pagliacci , his film career was mainly an extension of his operetta activities . |
| 3 | There is much gold about his person , in the form of anklets and wristlets , but otherwise he is naked except for a leopardskin loincloth . |
| 4 | As far as is known all Sussex records refer to the race albifrons , except for a bird showing the characters of the race flavirostris at Wiggonholt on 27 January 1956 . |
| 5 | The bar was empty now except for a couple of old boys playing dominoes . |
| 6 | In , his reading aloud had proved to be successful except for a couple of occasions when he had had a particularly stressful day and had found it exceedingly difficult to relax . |
| 7 | Our submarines are all operational , you see , except for a couple of recent arrivals that are working up ; new boats getting a crew together , that is , doing sea trials and dummy runs with torpedoes . |
| 8 | The photographs showed sporting groups posing with their weapons , except for a couple which showed a man — the same in both — on one knee by a dead stag . |
| 9 | The incident room was in darkness , except for a couple of desks whose reading lights had not been switched off , a glowing computer screen and the flashing red lights of some electrical equipment . |
| 10 | She was also almost naked , except for a couple of mere scraps of the lightest chain mail and riding boots of iridescent dragonhide . |
| 11 | The water trough was empty except for a layer of scum , a beer bottle and some sweet wrappers . |
| 12 | Shaped like straw mushrooms , they are completely clear except for a gossamer veil which makes up their body . |
| 13 | He was a fairly typical boy of his neighbourhood , well liked by his friends , and with facial features that remained pretty unaltered through youth and early life , except for a tendency towards puppy fat . |
| 14 | Except for a rise in gold prices immediately following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August , it was bleak year for precious metals . |
| 15 | We now write unc so that each square matrix is null except for a unit in the appropriate diagonal position . |
| 16 | The third column of B is then null except for a unit in the position corresponding |
| 17 | It can not be easily defined except for a willingness to experiment and change direction , a confidence , perhaps , in hesitancy . |
| 18 | Inhibitions are rare except for a bankruptcy inhibition , which serves the same purpose as a land charge in unregistered conveyancing . |
| 19 | The criticism focused especially on the government 's delay in completing cyclone damage assessment and , except for a request for more helicopters , its failure to provide aid agencies with a detailed list of emergency supply needs . |
| 20 | He was unarmed except for a dagger with a mother-of-pearl handle pushed through an ornately embroidered belt . |
| 21 | Except for a year when I had a break from competing , I have been racing ever since and have won two club championships and nearly one hundred trophies . |
| 22 | And then I could put it all back in a ponytail except for a bit at the front dripping down . |
| 23 | His scrawny body was naked except for a loincloth and the tattered remains of a jerkin . |
| 24 | Sir Thomas 's chamber , deserted except for a bed , table , and other sticks of furniture was , surprisingly , open . |
| 25 | There was no blonde except for a lady on the TV who was showing us Saniflush in the new unbreakable plastic bottle . |
| 26 | He was naked except for a bow tie — a nice touch , that . |
| 27 | There was a cry , followed shortly by a pounding of feet past the trench and down through the orchard , then silence , except for a rumble of artillery somewhere in the distance . |
| 28 | The doorway led into a small court with white walls and flat roof of red earth , empty except for a man sitting on the ground on a blue mat . |
| 29 | Nothing moved on the road now except for a man driving eight cows from one pasture to another . |
| 30 | Then a silence began to fall on every living thing around the Cages except for a Man running , not towards Woil but to the visitor caught by the hand in the talons of Creggan . |