Example sentences of "except [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research seems to indicate that normal karate training may lead to joint injury given that when you kick hard against the empty air , there is nothing to stop the movement of the foot except the limits of the joint . |
| 2 | Commented Chagall himself , ‘ Everything may change in our demoralised world except the heart , man 's love , and his striving to know the divine . |
| 3 | The leg-frame of each table is mortise and tenoned ; 5/8in on the legs except the little top rail mortise . |
| 4 | If you go into a pub today and buy a pint of beer , a coke , a low alcohol lager and a packet of crisps , you have a right to know what is in all those products except the beer . |
| 5 | Verkhovensky has courage ( though in its lower forms of which Plato speaks ) , but otherwise there is nothing in common between the two young men except the times they live in . |
| 6 | When he has tovarisch say , ‘ Nothing I build ’ , this is to be understood not allegorically but literally : working of stone , either architecturally or sculpturally , was for Pound the register of culture — a conviction which he shared in his lifetime with few except the British art-critic whom he knew and esteemed , Adrian Stokes . |
| 7 | Ironically , Paterson 's 10 caps , gained between 1969 and 1972 , include appearances against every International Board country except the All Blacks . |
| 8 | Everything was Nordic or Russian except the Lehar group that came at the end . |
| 9 | In the Sixties people worked hard and behaved themselves — except the police , of course . |
| 10 | The big house ( Brigade H.Q ) was also deserted , the transport and the staff had just left , except the jeep still standing in the driveway . |
| 11 | Everyone in the cinema , everyone except the five youths , jumps and screams . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There was nothing there , except the comfortable warmth . |
| 14 | Hardly anybody else about except the schoolteachers ever thought of taking their children to the sea . ’ |
| 15 | They had all the hay won except the final meadow when the weather broke . |
| 16 | Marx seems to be answering unnamed conservative critics who would argue that if you do not have private property and the politico-legal framework to ensure its enjoyment you will have chaos ; people would lose all incentive to produce , there would be no law except the law of the strongest , the economy could not be organized , there would be no individual security , murder and theft would be the order of the day . |
| 17 | This is the area of Mývatn famous in the guidebooks for everything except the bleeding obvious — the stench . |
| 18 | She said ‘ there 'll be no cooking except the things I have to teach — things like cakes . |
| 19 | He poured himself more whisky , pressing Herr Nordern to have another , too , and saying that he was leading the Norderns into bad ways but that they must forgive him as it was n't very often they saw him , ha ! ha ! and Herr Nordern , while not prepared to accept that he was led by anyone except the leaders of his country , took the whisky , thinking , what the devil , he had worked like a dog all day , and it was true , Karl would not be with them much longer and they would probably never see him again and , he had to confess , he would n't mind if he never saw him again as long as either of them lived . |
| 20 | All the shops were shut and no one was on the streets except the shouting women . ’ |
| 21 | Official records show little except the names of Sterling Trust 's directors . |
| 22 | Some may have visited the other side , but most have stayed at home living with political , economic and cultural systems that have very little in common except the original reason that they came into being — the biggest war the world had yet seen . |
| 23 | Swapo 's wish for an executive president was opposed by all except the Namibian National Front , which holds one seat . |
| 24 | Rinse the lentils in a sieve under running water , then place them in a large saucepan with all the remaining ingredients except the salt . |
| 25 | Add all the remaining ingredients except the redcurrant jelly and sugar . |
| 26 | It believes that one-tier authorities would be better than the two-tier authorities that exist everywhere except the metropolitan areas . |
| 27 | But nobody has enough money , except the rich , the emigrant businessmen and the old Party officials . |
| 28 | All sounds were muffled except the song of the birds and the pigeons were puffed up , looking as if they were wearing greatcoats , as they waited for the generous breakfast which they knew Jane would bring out to them . |
| 29 | But there was no one except the boy — and him . |
| 30 | He could hear nothing except the corner of the tin roof blowing . |