Example sentences of "everything except the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything except the one thing that needed changing ; that alone remained unspeakably the same . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Everything except the real world , of course . |
| 4 | This is the area of Mývatn famous in the guidebooks for everything except the bleeding obvious — the stench . |
| 5 | We remembered everything except the all-important commodity to get the lot home . ’ |
| 6 | On winter days the thin spirals of blue smoke were particularly visible , although , in fact , you could see them on most days save when heavy rain , snow , or mist came down like a curtain over everything except the immediate slope of the hill and its scattered beeches . |
| 7 | I had suddenly lost interest in everything except the huge , wonderful rocking-horse , on which I was placed , reins in my hands . |
| 8 | And it was Sky 's fault that the match commentators chose to talk about anything and everything except the horrendous football on display . |
| 9 | Industry was like that in Glasgow , but with disadvantages in everything except the local labour supply . |
| 10 | This morning , inattentive to everything except the rhythmic ruffle of her rake in the fine gravel , and to the notes of the song she was la-la-ing quietly to herself as she worked , she did not notice Nicandra 's arrival , nor see her as she slipped round the corner of the house and pushed her way through the low branches of the Portugal laurels that screened Silly-Willie 's window from inquisitive visitors . |
| 11 | Integrated circuits are available in which everything except the switching control transistor , smoothing capacitors and the necessary inductances are built in , and a supply can be fabricated by a dozen or so connections to the chip . |