Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shaped like straw mushrooms , they are completely clear except for a gossamer veil which makes up their body . |
| 2 | The sky now suddenly seemed clear except for a CR 42 going down in a spin ahead of me . |
| 3 | Every detail was clear except for the number-plate . |
| 4 | If they 've got any sense at all they should be I mean they 're getting it for free except for the telephone calls you might use |
| 5 | The hybridisation patterns are different except for the Eco RI fragment of 6.5 kb detected by both probes . |
| 6 | The radial shields are rounded triangular to teardrop shaped , slightly greater than a quarter of the disk diameter in length , distally contiguous except for a row of granules which runs along the suture . |
| 7 | The street below was empty except for a girl walking along sobbing quietly and a boy behind her trying to explain . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They were empty except for a caretaker or two . |
| 10 | The water trough was empty except for a layer of scum , a beer bottle and some sweet wrappers . |
| 11 | The incinerator was empty except for a trace of carbon ash . |
| 12 | The mess was almost empty except for an Education Corps captain who was also using the place as an hotel , and three unmarried young officers who 'd been playing tennis and should n't have been in the ante-room dressed like that . |
| 13 | It was empty except for an ox and ass who snorted and brayed a greeting . |
| 14 | He picked up the canvas shoulder-bag , which was empty except for the map and a compass . |
| 15 | The story might have been different but for the Vietnam War . |
| 16 | Inclusion of the GFF and LPF into the bigram experiments appears to be less stable than for the trigram experiments — the number of top ranked correct words tends to drop for the bigram cases but remains almost constant for the trigram cases . |
| 17 | The wines are all bone dry except for the Vendage Tardives ( VTs ) , made from 100 per cent late-picked , super-ripe ( but not botrytised ) grapes , and the Selections de Grains Nobles ( SGNs ) made from 100 per cent botrytis-affected fruit — 1989 was a great year for both . |
| 18 | Sometimes the names of the authors of the report appear on the title page but , if the report is going out in the name of an organisation , it may be kept impersonal except for the signatures at the end . |
| 19 | Most look similar except for the frame material ; choose this to match your windows if possible . |
| 20 | Icelandic weather is really buggering me about , I decide , and conditions are now near perfect except for the metre of soft snow that lies over everything in sight . |
| 21 | The carpet was in two pieces that did n't match and the cooker was a tabletop model , non-functional except for the hotplate , rescued by Ted from an old Dolphin 20 on its way to being broken up . |
| 22 | The house was dark except for a light in the kitchen . |
| 23 | The driver 's duty to accord precedence is absolute except for the circumstances mentioned in Burns v Bidder [ 1966 ] 3 All ER 29 . |
| 24 | The war analogy is not too far-fetched since for every winner in industrial competition there is bound to be a loser . |
| 25 | Like everything else in elephant capture , this is a hazardous operation and would be impossible but for the presence of the trained koonkies . |
| 26 | All this is conventional except for the projection forward of present-day mechanisms and gadgetry . |
| 27 | What more obvious than for the allies to outflank the French right to cut their lines of communication with Vienna ? |
| 28 | Rear passengers perch high , which is fine except for the long-bodied , who have to duck the head to make the best of the view . |
| 29 | The remainder of that meeting was reasonably unremarkable except for the establishment of the Accident/Incident Data Reporting System ( ADREP ) on which Peter Bardon had done so much hard work with a special panel before the meeting . |
| 30 | The walls were bare except for a photograph of a number of village men standing in front of a house the house . |