Example sentences of "[adv] except for the " in BNC.

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1 Ten minutes and the back of an envelope is seldom enough except for the most gifted .
2 I do n't think so except for the relation to domestics .
3 You finished about eight o'clock at night , you had about twelve hours so you 're working more or less except for the was n't very long . .
4 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 ) .
5 The houses were scattered around , low-slung , timbered , with a thatched roof and small porch ; it was a village scene similar to many Corbett had seen elsewhere except for the small dark people , their furtive looks and quiet ways .
6 they put the new bo o the only thing , we had everything new three years ago except for the they did all the work in the attic
7 Schumm ( 1968 ) also demonstrated how knowledge gained from contemporary denudation rates could give clues about the rates in geological time and suggested that with the appearance of grasses in the Cainozoic , the relations between climate , vegetation , erosion and runoff became much as today except for the subsequent influence of man .
8 That said , I 'm glad it 's not Manchester 'cos there 's not a scene there except for the media .
9 I met thousands of them back there and they 're all like anybody else except for the voice , French , Germans , Americans .
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