Example sentences of "except [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the sailor has ‘ climbed the rigging ’ , which is usually an energetic process , he ‘ looks out ’ , remaining stationary except for a slight sway as the boat sails out of harbour . |
| 2 | In the heat of the midday sun we reached Ingleborough 's companion top of Simon Fell , deserted except for a few inquisitive Swaledale sheep . |
| 3 | So in his late anthology , Confucius to Cummings ( New York , 1964 , with Marcella Spann ) , he explicitly preferred George Chapman 's Homer to pope 's , even though he had admitted that Chapman is unreadable , except for a few pages at a time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She was quite attractive except for a very nasty skin condition , her face and arms were covered with a large number of pustules and it was obvious that she had been scratching them ; the scratch-marks were bleeding slightly . |
| 6 | The war was now a long distance away ; everything was quiet , except for a very faint rumble of artillery in the distance , in the direction of the River Seine . |
| 7 | Twenty minutes later the Sergeant was showing me my accommodation for the night : a bare cell except for a wooden bunk in one corner and two blankets . |
| 8 | After a theatrical demonstration by the instructor , everyone managed to perform this procedure satisfactorily , except for a young Second lieutenant medical student , who landed badly and broke his ankle . |
| 9 | The room was full of darkness now , except for a bright triangle near the door where the light from the corridor fell . |
| 10 | But except for a brief interval , Blaize ruled for 10 unmemorable years until Gairy decisively beat him at the polls a few months after Britain granted the island wide autonomy in 1967 . |
| 11 | Except for a few extremely rich Americans ( Gordon Bennett was one ) and a sprig of French nobility they were British and Irish aristos , and landed gentry and army officers . |
| 12 | She was deathly pale , the mid-brown hair flattened to her head , the lined skin without make-up except for a brave but mistaken line of smudged lipstick . |
| 13 | Except for a few letters from Helen to Jane Aldis , there is nothing until January 1897 . |
| 14 | He closed all Catholic schools and colleges for three days and cancelled all services for the following Sunday , except for a single Mass in the Cathedral Church , to which 100,000 people came . |
| 15 | And , except for a few Teflon exceptions , it does ! ’ |
| 16 | She was naked except for a tampax and a lot of acrylic paint . |
| 17 | Most of it was just bumph , bills and Christmas cards , except for a bulky , strange-looking package which had been delivered by hand . |
| 18 | He was naked except for a bow tie — a nice touch , that . |
| 19 | Everything was dark except for a single patch where the moon shone through the skylight on to the wall . |
| 20 | But the show was all for nothing : there were no punters out there , except for a scattering of people , hunched into anoraks , hurrying home to get out of the persistent drizzle . |
| 21 | Beyond the gates , the channel which carved its way through salt-marshes and mud flats , out into the Estuary , was empty , except for a sluggish trickle at the bottom . |
| 22 | So far on this journey , except for a moment at Mahanaim , we have been travelling through country we know or can imagine . |
| 23 | Except for a brief moment in 1920 ( the Hands off Russia movement ) the British working class have never thought or acted internationally . |
| 24 | The room was bare except for a ping-pong table on folding trestle legs . |
| 25 | There was silence , except for a creaking from the gas-meter . |
| 26 | The four-cylinder 12-valve engine also remains quiet , except for a boom at around 5,000 rpm . |
| 27 | What they all have in common is a basic commitment that the vines should have been cultivated without the use of chemical fertilisers , pesticides , fungicides or herbicides ( except for a few age-old things like Bordeaux mixture ) , and the wine made without chemical additives or agents — apart from a few natural and/or traditional substances . |
| 28 | The secularisation of Holy Week and Easter now seems complete except for a faithful remnant of practising Christians — about 10 per cent of the population on most calculations . |
| 29 | Jim took up the slack on his own chain and four others , like the Casting-Master almost naked except for a blackened leather apron and tight-fitting skull cap , pulled and cursed the liquid iron on its descent to the earth . |
| 30 | Except for a few stickers falling off , it worked reasonably well . |