Example sentences of "except the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except the front ones . |
| 2 | It would be a neat ploy , wasting our time , confusing the investigation and diverting suspicion from everyone except the early arrivals . " |
| 3 | The political party of all the candidates except the rare independents is indicated on the ballot paper . |
| 4 | All the shops were shut and no one was on the streets except the shouting women . ’ |
| 5 | Everyone in the cinema , everyone except the five youths , jumps and screams . |
| 6 | He also read all his fan mail each evening , and answered all of the letters , by hand , except the cranky ones . |
| 7 | Henri and I sheltered them for a while , but of course it was very risky with the Germans billeted everywhere except the smallest cottages . |
| 8 | Men , women , and all except the smallest children , were on their hands and knees , busily washing every inch of the deck , supervised by the third mate and half a dozen rough-looking sailors , who kept them at it every second . |
| 9 | It believes that one-tier authorities would be better than the two-tier authorities that exist everywhere except the metropolitan areas . |
| 10 | Ironically , Paterson 's 10 caps , gained between 1969 and 1972 , include appearances against every International Board country except the All Blacks . |
| 11 | We had tea and discussed everything except the two things that interested me : the fact that I was in love with her daughter , and the fact that her husband had run off with a schoolgirl . |
| 12 | Initially half of the 46,000 French troops stationed in Germany would be withdrawn and the French government gave a commitment to withdraw all its forces ( except the 2,800 troops in Berlin and the 3,000-strong Franco-German brigade ) . |
| 13 | They then distribute ( and supply ) electricity to final consumers , except the largest ones . |
| 14 | The problem of insufficient staff to be able easily to absorb absences from the workplace to attend group training sessions was commented on by all except the largest libraries , with some libraries apparently regarding this lack of ( indirect ) staff resource as paramount to preventing any in-service training programmes being carried out , although as was emphasized by The Library Association Working Party on Training : |
| 15 | There was not a sound except the stamping hoofs and as she watched he allowed it to come to the ground , pacing it in that superb prancing way , its silken tail swaying . |
| 16 | He seemed to have come to the deep , still centre of the sea : a place where you felt nothing , where you saw nothing except the coal-black atoms that danced before your face and knitted up the dark . |
| 17 | Each new cell will also carry the twin set of chromosomes — except the sexual cells ( the ovum in the female and the spermatozoon in the male ) which will carry only one set — 23 single chromosomes instead of 23 pairs . |
| 18 | The girls groaned over this , except the quick ones like Irene who delighted in it , but it meant that there was no need for anyone to open the desk because it was all oral work . |
| 19 | When I first when I was first driving in the early 1970's you could park in the quarry car park any time you fancied except the few days before Christmas . |
| 20 | We were taken home that afternoon , and during the journey back we sang all sorts of songs except the Fascist ones . |
| 21 | Change from rectangular format ( too boring , a different shape every week — circular , pentagram , triangle , jigsaw puzzle , build your own — free packets of Smarties ( except the brown ones ! ) . |
| 22 | Solihull 's Discovery — one of a threesome that dominates every sector of the 4 × 4 market except the fun bugs . |
| 23 | I ca n't think what to do next , except the same things . |
| 24 | All the families were on for except the three weeks holiday during the year they were marooned on these islands all the time . |
| 25 | The abolition of fees , in all except the direct-grant schools , by the Act of 1944 , sharpened the competitive and selective character of the schools . |
| 26 | Modern configurational analysis ( see , for example , Hopfinger ( 1972 ) ) may afford methods of rigorously relating molecular energetics to mechanical properties — but for any except the simplest molecules the size of the computer required at present precludes the use of this method . |
| 27 | And meant only for summer and early autumn ; no heating apparatus except the open fires , and a kitchen rather on a par for mod cons with my cottage at Otters ' Bay . |
| 28 | Nothing lay ahead of her except the thickening belts of trees that ringed the head of the valley . |