Example sentences of "except the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swapo 's wish for an executive president was opposed by all except the Namibian National Front , which holds one seat . |
| 2 | It is all too revealing that , searching through the biographical work on Gide for further references to Athman in Europe , I came across hardly anything except the occasional derogatory , passing remark . |
| 3 | Nothing in sex will concern me except the pure physical pleasure ; I shall be incapable of love , of Don Juan 's pride of conquest , even of caring whether the woman is pleased or bored with my company . |
| 4 | This is the area of Mývatn famous in the guidebooks for everything except the bleeding obvious — the stench . |
| 5 | A small sandgrouse of the shorter-tailed group , both sexes also lacking the dark line on the breast possessed by all other breeding sandgrouse of the region except the long-tailed Spotted and the short-tailed female Lichtenstein 's . |
| 6 | Except the first two or three years I was here . |
| 7 | There were players now on every hole except the first two . |
| 8 | A millionaire paying an 83 per cent tax rate on all taxable income except the first 54 000 1978–79 was paying only 40 per cent per cent in 1990 91 . |
| 9 | Harold Wilson himself had emphasised publicly that he would ban the export to it of all arms except the minimum necessary for self-defence against foreign aggression . |
| 10 | There was nothing on any of the screens except the blue flaring signal beacon and a big untidy pile of bags and boxes by the door of the lift . |
| 11 | Soon there was nothing except the laboured surging of the engine and his head jolting on his spindly neck and a swarm of red dust in the rear window . |
| 12 | To herself Annabel thought that it would n't interfere with the running of the Universe if enough money could be found somewhere for the university fees and accommodation for Eve Malone , the child who had no home except the big bleak convent with the heavy iron gates . |
| 13 | All the other main opposition parties except the conservative Popular Christian Party ( PPC ) boycotted the elections , arguing that the CCD would be an insubstantial body which would merely rubber-stamp presidential decisions . |
| 14 | By the late 1980s , the ‘ golden dream ’ had lost its appeal to almost everyone in the ‘ Socialist Commonwealth ’ except the few elderly leaders from the generation which had entered the Communist Party at the height of Stalin 's predominance . |
| 15 | Nothing moved there except the few blackheaded gulls wheeling and crying above the river . |
| 16 | Everyone 's position was dubious in some respect : no one had been able to stand aloof from the efforts of Philip and Mary to turn England back to popery , and all except the few convinced Romanists in the village hoped that the days of compulsory religion and inquisitions would now be over . |
| 17 | It often seems that the New Ager has invented his ‘ science ’ independently of any authority except the optimistic inner influences , and that of lumps of matter whizzing through space . |
| 18 | Except the twenty five , fifty two in two classes |
| 19 | The summit was attended by heads of government of all five permanent and 10 non-permanent member countries of the Security Council except the Hungarian Prime Minister , Jozsef Antall [ for list of non-permanent members as of Jan. 1 , 1992 , see p. 38555 ] . |
| 20 | She had been far too busy trying to cope with the sale of the large estate , and by the time all her father 's debts had been settled there had been nothing left except the old Elizabethan Manor House . |
| 21 | All of these variables except the last two , I contend , are a positive monotonic function of the total budget of the bureau . |
| 22 | He was craning his neck to look up but nothing was visible except the rolling grey mist that had almost reached the jeep . |
| 23 | The leg-frame of each table is mortise and tenoned ; 5/8in on the legs except the little top rail mortise . |
| 24 | The threesome dominates every sector of the 4 × 4 market except the low-cost fun machines . |
| 25 | The clashes failed to sabotage a new peace meeting on June 22 , if indeed that had been the aim , and representatives of all main parties attended , except the right-wing Conservative Party and some of its allies . |
| 26 | Although there are significant differences within it ( particularly between Tees side and Tyneside ) , it is marked culturally by what is , to outsiders at least , a distinctive single local accent which is used by natives of all classes except the land-owning upper class . |