Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] except for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never stash money in the house — either in little tins , jars or under the mattress except for a small amount for use in emergencies . |
| 2 | It was very quiet in the kitchen except for the clock in the corner that ticked so loudly that it sounded as if it would burst out of its case . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , yes , the Wheel was ready for the ceremony except for the foliage ; we do that on the day of the event so that it is fresh ; laurel and yew . |
| 4 | A green Renault 18 , very travel-stained with grime on the windscreen except for the segments swept by the wipers , was the seventh private car to come out . |
| 5 | The Frenchman then had an untroubled run to the flag except for the downpour on the final two laps . |
| 6 | The Frenchman then had an untroubled run to the flag except for the downpour on the final two laps . |
| 7 | I 'm just you 're just making me think actually because I saw in one of the papers this morning erm a headline , if I can find it , it said something to the effect that — yes here it is , in the Independent , it says ‘ TV soaps are first to survive rescheduling ’ and it goes on to tell us that the British television schedules as we all know were the first casualties of war in the Gulf except for the nation 's daily diet of Australian soap . |
| 8 | Silence in the room except for the bottle emptying into Tommy 's throat . |
| 9 | In other words , the lights were off in the living-room except for the strobes around the disco where a lonely DJ was pumping out Frankie Goes to Hollywood , and all the guests at the party were in the kitchen cluttering up the fake oak worksurfaces and obscuring the Neff oven . |
| 10 | But statistics were not at the heart of the thing except for the occasional schoolboy or zealot . |
| 11 | ‘ I know nothing of this part of the world except for the tales sometimes told in the hall about the mountains . ’ |
| 12 | In this period , all South African military forces must be disbanded and withdrawn from the country except for a residual force of 1,500 troops who will be confined to bases at Grootfontein and Oshivello . |
| 13 | Outside , Baker Street was closed down for the weekend except for the Barracuda Club , which had taken over from the original School Dinners restaurant after it moved across the road to usurp the No. 34 Wine Bar . |
| 14 | It was invisible in the fog except for the faint blur of its lamp . |
| 15 | All the outer states capitulated to the Republic except for the most easterly islands which proclaimed a Republic of the South Moluccas . |
| 16 | Once assured of their willingness to adopt the patriot cause the ‘ people ’ turned to their natural , local leaders and disappeared from the stage except for a few significant reappearances and a few protests against ‘ the rich ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ For years before he married Elizabeth I do n't think anyone came to the house except for the old men on Sunday after chapel . |
| 18 | We are one of about three hundred Amnesty groups in the country , probably about this size , perhaps , well were , were , I mean this , this group is probably about an average for the , you know , the groups in the country , some are smaller , some are much larger , but er , usually it 's about a dozen or so people meeting once a month or , or that often in a room , erm , but apart from groups there are a l there are a great many more people who are called individual members of Amnesty about eighty thousand I think now who are , who just joined by writing to headquarters and many of those have no contact with the groups at all , we 've had list of the people in this area and they run into hundred and fifty , two hundred people who live in this area who er , who belong , who , who belong to Amnesty but do n't actually come to a group except for a small number of us . |
| 19 | And then I could put it all back in a ponytail except for a bit at the front dripping down . |
| 20 | There was no sound except for a pigeon burbling to itself in the road , pecking at horse-dung . |
| 21 | There was no sound except for the rain . |
| 22 | you know like Freddy Kruger three fingers that looked like blades and every night she would go to erm the fields and erm she would go into sheep fields and cow fields and she would kill three sheep and a cow every night except for a Sunday night ! |
| 23 | Assume an investor is confronted by the choice of investing in one of two companies which are identical in every respect except for the way in which they have been financed . |
| 24 | There was no movement except for the tiny spider that was crawling up Nicky 's arm . |
| 25 | She wore no jewellery except for a simple band around her wedding finger . |
| 26 | For him , wrote Harsnet , there is only the endless metamorphosis of narrative , no end except for the non-end of his death . |
| 27 | It is a large , modern building and it would be easy to imagine oneself in a hospital except for the noise , cheerful bustle and attractive classrooms . |
| 28 | The overall effect of the distortions to both the income statement and balance sheet is to give firm A a return on assets of 16.67 per cent and firm B a return on assets of 9.09 per cent even though both firms are identical in every way except for the inventory valuation method used . |
| 29 | Because the Fouga 's jet-pipes are sneakily angled outwards ten degrees a simple right engine failure is a non-event except for the reduction in climb . |
| 30 | The typewriter had been made in Delhi many years ago , copied from an English Underwood and reproduced in every detail except for the vital spring to drive the keys back . |