Example sentences of "except for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the closing phrases , by which time she 'd completely lost it and was just plain screaming , we all fell silent , because it was awesome ; and then when she had finished the victim of her fury slowly exited right on cue in complete silence , complete silence except for Madame 's heavy breathing and the sound of Gary playing recitative on the piano , for he had been playing along under her rage all the time , as if to support it , as if this really was music to our ears . |
| 2 | Horses always seem to prefer good green pasture to hay , and it is in fact higher in vitamins and protein than all hays except for lucerne . |
| 3 | cost them anything except for postage and and wo n't therefore cost us anything but postage ? |
| 4 | All sections are subject to an excess of £15 per person per section , except for Sections 1 , 3 , 9 and 12 which do not have an excess , and Section 4 in respect of Loss of Deposit only claims where the excess is only £5 per person . |
| 5 | Multiple selection of courses is not necessary ( except for Law and French which is under a separate quota ) and candidates need only use one space on their application form . |
| 6 | Most Ophiacanthids so far examined possess a comma shaped surface except for Ophiomyces , the possession of similar articulation surfaces in Ophiohelus , Ophiothauma and Ophiotholia is inferred pending future study , so an absence of this form of socket would support Verrill 's proposal . |
| 7 | Any disagreements between members of the two Houses and the official records are carefully looked into and such is the integrity of the record that any attempt to alter it , except for errors , would undoubtedly result in a national scandal . |
| 8 | I suspect that sea kayaking will go the way of inland touring , namely that modifications to design and materials will negate the most telling criticisms of plastic , and then its obvious advantage in durability will vastly outweigh its remaining disadvantages ( except for competitions and long open sea crossings ) . |
| 9 | You also know that when a company like Hewlett-Packard announces that inkjet technology is the largest research and development project it has ever undertaken — except for RISC processors — the technology has a bright future . |
| 10 | Except for birds seen during severe winter weather , which have often associated with influxes of other geese , records of this species are open to the suspicion that the birds have escaped from captivity . |
| 11 | Except for dates . |
| 12 | If applied to water from the reef , most hobby test kits would read zero — except for oxygen . |
| 13 | The ban on British clubs was lifted ( except for Liverpool ) . |
| 14 | Avoncliffe very poor except for feature pegs . |
| 15 | There are two open bothies on the route but contrary to what is written in some places , the farm at lonely Carnmore on the Letterewe estate is not inhabited except for part of the year . |
| 16 | Up to a third of mothers using such facilities have no job , except for day nurseries where 60–70 per cent of the mothers are employed ( Osborn , Butler , and Morris 1984 ) . |
| 17 | They all went out except for Father Martin who closed the door and sat on the bed . |
| 18 | Until they reached the outskirts of Teddington they drove in silence , except for Lorton 's directions and Tolby 's sniffs . |
| 19 | Except for Preston , who had his own one-way dialogue with the Almighty . |
| 20 | It shows that where transit time is accelerated higher mucosal concentrations occur after slow release preparations ( except for Claversal 250 mg ) than after azo-bound drugs . |
| 21 | In conclusion , it can be said that during accelerated intestinal transit , slow release preparations , except for Claversal 250 mg tablets , provide higher steady state mucosal concentrations than azo-bound drugs . |
| 22 | Juvenile Tengmalm 's uniformly rufous , including most of facial disc , except for eyebrows . |
| 23 | The techniques used by the team depended on cunning placing of salt shakers , identical except for hole size , in a public cafeteria and on Quantas ( sic ) aircraft , with shakers weighed before and after use . |
| 24 | After around twenty years of virtual silence , except for chimes at the occasional wedding , the sixteenth century church bells are finally back in place . |
| 25 | Tom Peters , Michael Porter and the venerable Peter Drucker — these and a handful of others , all American academics except for Britain 's Charles Handy , are the spiritual leaders of the business world , the high priests of management . |
| 26 | Except for Britain and France this type of banking became prevalent in continental Europe during the buoyant expansion of capitalism since the 1880s and close relationships between industrial companies and banks built up everywhere basically on the same lines , even though their evolution proceeded rather differently in different countries . |
| 27 | They then move a little further down before taking up the major part of their trip , largely unbroken to the Gulf of Mexico except for stopovers to explore the towns and recover from incidents , including loss of their canoe on one occasion . |
| 28 | ‘ I can vouch for it that nobody has moved from his or her desk all the time you 've been here , except for Nigel and he has not moved from his corner . ’ |
| 29 | A turning point in the history of the republic came in 1358 , when Ludovic of Hungary forced the Venetians to cede to him the whole of Dalmatia , except for Ragusa . |
| 30 | Further investigation in other clinics were negative except for ultrasound scanning which revealed gall stones in three and they had a cholecystectomy . |