Example sentences of "except [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This picture , except for the Canadian crew , was an extremely unpleasant experience . ’ |
| 2 | Evidence for more exotic trades is also rather limited , except for the suggested school of mosaicists and sculptors at Water Newtons and Carlisles respectively ; it is not surprising , therefore , that mosaics are generally rare in small towns , even though they often occur in nearby villas . |
| 3 | In contrast to the Hong Kong Basic Law , the Macao draft law imposed no restrictions on foreign passport holders taking key posts in Macao after 1999 except for the chief executive who could not gain right of abode in a foreign country during his term of office . |
| 4 | We were pleased to find the palace deserted ( or so we thought ) except for the usual steward and bailiffs who stayed throughout the year to clean the rooms , wash the hangings and sweep out the dirt once the court moved on . |
| 5 | All was silent except for the automatic fire fairly close at hand , somewhere down by the crossroads . |
| 6 | A more accurate appraisal of the new status quo is that that would be the case … except for the small print . |
| 7 | They all roared with laughter except for the sneering man who suddenly grew fish-coloured and shouted and wagged his finger . |
| 8 | However , looking more closely at Fig. 6.5b , we see that in the cases and there is no chance that there are any trajectories which remain forever within the region of interest except for the homoclinic orbit itself at r = r* ; for all other trajectories the modulus of the a-coordinate increases on each pass through the top of B and so all trajectories eventually wander out of the region of validity of our analysis ( and , in fact , spiral into C1 or C2 ) . |
| 9 | The variable linker region is 15 ( Pit-1 ) to 30 amino acids long ( Dpou28 ) , while the POU HD , as defined by Laughton ( 22 ) , is 60 amino acids long except for the inhibitory POU protein I-pou from Drosophila which is unable to bind DNA due to a deletion of amino acids 2 and 3 in the basic N-termins of the POU HD ( 16 ) . |
| 10 | With its total control of spacing , its ability to print out separate instrument parts , the transposing facility and easy to understand manual , Composers Pen must be one of the best in its field — except for the final output . |
| 11 | The Supplement , in four volumes , compiled between 1957 and 1985 , is now complete except for the final volume . |
| 12 | It was invisible in the fog except for the faint blur of its lamp . |
| 13 | ‘ You must be mad , insane , ’ Agnes almost yelled at her , only to clap a hand over her mouth and glance towards the door as if expecting it to open and her mother to appear ; and for a while there was silence between them , except for the slight moaning sound coming from Jessie . |
| 14 | If the sidereal axial period of Venus were -43.16 days then , except for the slight effect of the eccentricity of the orbits of Venus and the Earth , Venus would present the same face to the Earth at each inferior conjunction . |
| 15 | Eventually it was just a dark dot way up in the shy , almost unrecognisable except for the distinctive flight pattern : it would glide round in a circle , then soar off in a straight line , helped along by the wind , and finally resume its circular flight again . |
| 16 | Soundless except for the dull crack of the axe against bone . |
| 17 | It 's an all British car erm except for the Japanese tape deck , and the makers believe there are enough people around who still want to drive with the top down and the wind in their hair , people who are prepared to risk the weather , as well as an overdraft , to get behind the wheel of a Healey again . |
| 18 | Centres which received some damage included Norwich and Birmingham whilst in Bristol the square in which the deaf centre stood was reduced to rubble except for the deaf centre , which was unscathed except for blasted windows . |
| 19 | He put the things back into his wallet , except for the blue card informing him that he was to see Dr Pool in the morning . |
| 20 | There was silence , except for the deep thrumming of the engine . |
| 21 | As far as I can discover , except for the rough translation of a poem by Watcyn Wyn in his Wales ( 1905 ) , there is no further mention of verse of any kind in Edward Thomas 's letters after this Long Vacation . |
| 22 | Behind the stripey brick facade , on a run-down street behind the market , there was an interesting building , one room wide but 100 yards deep , deserted except for the odd work of art . |
| 23 | No firewood could be chopped up until after the landlord had called so the room was clean and tidy , all except for the odd quarry tile Dad had broken during the wood-chopping . |
| 24 | On checking artists , names appended it appears that up to 1756 Jeffreys did most of the engraving for Figures of Plants but thereafter his name disappears except for the odd plate , which may well have been made earlier . |
| 25 | Now , this may not seem to be a feasible solution , except for the odd application such as electric blanket or underfloor heating where full wave rectified unsmoothed 50 or 60Hz AC will produce heating from a mixture of 81% DC and 19% AC at 100 or 120Hz and above . |
| 26 | He watched their departure through a spreading mist , and when the last car had gone and the avenue was silent except for the long sigh of grass , he allowed himself to be taken back to his room . |
| 27 | The Cave Squigs will attack any models in base contact except for the prodder-armed Night Goblins behind them . |
| 28 | ‘ In fact the arrangement might be a relief to them — except for the extra food . ’ |
| 29 | Except for the new diesel engines , the trains date back to 1954 . |
| 30 | All the intercepts are significantly greater than zero except for the first sub-period when it is significantly lower than zero . |