Example sentences of "save for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are no easy chairs , save for a single wooden rocking chair ; no cushions , save for three ornamental ones in a corner . |
| 2 | Save for a mention of the enduring reality of ‘ the unknown ’ , that was it — which begs a question . |
| 3 | He finds his own words for the mood in a letter to Helen on 6 May '98 : ‘ I am glad my unkind letter allowed you nevertheless to write me so sweet a reply , and besides , to be so sweet tempered , and , as I hope , unhurt save for a moment . |
| 4 | He was shouting at the top of his voice into the microphone but save for a few at the front of the crowd , nobody could hear a word because someone had cut the amplifier cable . |
| 5 | He shouts ‘ Beats International ! ’ with the kind of enthusiasm most sane people save for a winning goal or a multiple birth , and then he breaks into rhyme . |
| 6 | Distinctive guitar riffs and Ian Telfer 's racy fiddle runs distinguish the powerful , literate songs — all their own , save for a punk-folk thrashing of Pete Seeger 's politically correct tour of Welsh mining communities , pit closures giving a metaphorical edge to the accusing refrain ‘ who killed the miners ? ’ . |
| 7 | At no time in its long history of seven hundred years has Parliament governed , nor save for a brief period when the Constitution broke down in the seventeenth century has it made any claim to do so . |
| 8 | Old photographs , such as those in the Sprott Collection , show wide , uncluttered streets , no traffic save for a few carts and other horse-drawn vehicles and plenty of space for people to stand . |
| 9 | Complete from the hips upwards , the statues were naked save for a collar , probably of wood , that encircled their necks . |
| 10 | It involves beliefs such as ‘ There is n't enough to go round ’ , ‘ I never have enough money ’ , ‘ Money does n't grow on trees ’ , ‘ You have to work hard for what you want ’ , ‘ If I have more , others have less ’ , ‘ Better save for a rainy day ’ and ‘ It 's immoral to be rich when so many people are starving and homeless . ’ |
| 11 | The evacuation meant the Daily Telegraph newspaper , which is based in Canary Tower , was forced to print hundreds of thousands of copies with a blank front page save for a three-paragraph statement . |
| 12 | But , save for a risible romantic subplot revolving around Wayne 's relationship with a lite-metal Cantonese warblette , the hit-gag ratio is right up there . |
| 13 | There was only one thing for it , and that was to sever a connection that — save for a seven-year stint with Somerset in the 70s — goes back to 1949 . |
| 14 | The coastline is now Chilean territory on both banks , save for a minute touch of Argentina at the very western entrance . |
| 15 | The fragility of most Early Netherlandish panels means that most museums will refuse loans save for a very good reason . |
| 16 | A British walker survived for seven days without food , save for a few prunes she managed to scavenge out of a dustbin , while lost in New Zealand 's rugged Taparua mountain range . |
| 17 | Save for a few naval battles , the war had never reached the Old World . |
| 18 | Yet nobody , save for a few free-market purists , seems to be worrying — least of all the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission , whose office is located next to the finance ministry . |
| 19 | Very little of interest on the technical front , save for a few more bent shaft models . |
| 20 | Little new in this field , save for a natty looking UIAA plastic helmet from Allcord , called the Rock Hopper . |
| 21 | So now , save for a few interesting mounds in the field , there is no visible evidence of its existence . |
| 22 | The barn was stark and without adornment , save for a single crucifix in the tiny chapel . |
| 23 | The room was empty save for a pile of cushions and blankets in one corner and an enormous television set on a stool in the middle of the earthen floor . |
| 24 | There was no one else there save for a hidden organist who presently began to thunder an untuneful hymn . |
| 25 | She stepped out of it , naked save for a tiny pair of white lace panties so small that they exposed white patches of skin , luminous against her golden tan . |
| 26 | The counters and display cabinets were empty , save for a few of the distinctive green and gold Confiserie Vassoir tins . |
| 27 | Hickman 's early education , apprenticeship , and hospital attendance are unknown save for a surviving fair-copy notebook dated 1816–18 , containing extracts from textbooks and a record of attendance for two weeks at Brookes 's School of Anatomy , London . |
| 28 | But no one was there save for a woman with an umbrella , a cyclist going wearily along by the kerb . |
| 29 | He was a tall , thin man of indeterminate age with hairless grey skin and dressed in a long black robe without ornament save for a small silver fork with twisted tines which hung on a piece of string round his neck , and rested on the black breast of the robe . |
| 30 | Hearing his feverish mutter of gratification as his hands parted her robe and found her flesh unconfined beneath it , save for a little pair of loose silky pants , she accepted a power almost equal to his over her . |