Example sentences of "[subord] for a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | All three figures are naked , except for a single strap of bikini-like harness running across the woman 's chest . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Vic feels his blood pressure rising at the thought of his eldest son , who dropped out of university four months ago and has not been usefully occupied since , now swaddled in a duvet upstairs , naked except for a single gold earring , sleeping off last night 's booze . |
4 | The upper decks were wide with two and two seating , except for a single seat by the trolley which was slightly offset . |
5 | The doors to the great white stone building that led to the palatial rotunda were open , the lobby empty except for a single security guard sitting and reading behind the circular information desk . |
6 | Everything was dark except for a single patch where the moon shone through the skylight on to the wall . |
7 | On other vases , especially on his favourite form , an egg-shaped amphora with narrow neck , like those used for prize oil at the Panathenaic games , he reaches the logical conclusion of this trend : a vase totally black except for a single figure on each side , without even a ground-line ( fig. 106 ) ; the figure is the whole decoration . |
8 | Formerly the domicile of a wife was necessarily the same as that of her husband , but under the Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973 the wife 's dependent domicile was abolished : now her domicile is determined according to the same rules as for a single person . |