Example sentences of "except [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | From 6 a.m. the morning was fairly quiet , except for the occasional sniping . |
| 32 | There was an unusual quietness in the air , except for the sound of artillery in the distance and the occasional whine of a sniper 's bullet through the orchard . |
| 33 | The shelling and the mortaring had ceased except for the occasional explosion near at hand . |
| 34 | Everything was peaceful except for the whine of a sniper 's bullet through the trees and the sound of the mortar crew sending the occasional bomb to explode at the distant crossroads . |
| 35 | The shelling and mortaring had almost died away , except for the occasional round from the mortar team back in the orchard . |
| 36 | There were two mortar explosions over by the road , then all was fairly quiet except for the sound of firing away in the distance at the other end of the village , where I had been earlier on in the evening . |
| 37 | Later , people would come along , dig him up and remove him to a more permanent resting place where the vicar would say a few words and it would all be over , except for those who remembered him . |
| 38 | There was a cry , followed shortly by a pounding of feet past the trench and down through the orchard , then silence , except for a rumble of artillery somewhere in the distance . |
| 39 | She was quite attractive except for a very nasty skin condition , her face and arms were covered with a large number of pustules and it was obvious that she had been scratching them ; the scratch-marks were bleeding slightly . |
| 40 | All was silent except for the automatic fire fairly close at hand , somewhere down by the crossroads . |
| 41 | The parade dispersed , the Commandos returning to their respective units , and soon the village green was quiet , except for the murmur of French voices as the civilians read the newsheet pinned to a tree . |
| 42 | The war was now a long distance away ; everything was quiet , except for a very faint rumble of artillery in the distance , in the direction of the River Seine . |
| 43 | Twenty minutes later the Sergeant was showing me my accommodation for the night : a bare cell except for a wooden bunk in one corner and two blankets . |
| 44 | There were no institutions of higher learning except for an obscure agricultural college in Mogilev province . |
| 45 | At the time of the last and only census of 1897 , there were more of them in the Vitebsk area than in any other part of the Empire except for Kovno , Vilno , and Grodno . |
| 46 | The new tax in kind fell on all areas of Russia and on all types of peasant in 1922 except for the completely destitute . |
| 47 | Except for the flies that is which had the persistence of pit bull terriers . |
| 48 | Coming out of the meeting , a lady was heard remarking , ‘ Mr Ramsey spoke very nicely but I do think he is young to be Master of a College ’ ; for she thought that he was the new Master of Magdalene whose name was the same except for the spelling . |
| 49 | Those defeats unleashed bitter internal conflicts and , except for 1951 , a shift to the left on policy . |
| 50 | Behind them she could work with a charm and singleness of attention that became so smooth as to be chilling , except for the friendliness of her large grey eyes . |
| 51 | He failed to notice the borrowed things that the girls wore , looking around him instead in dumb bafflement : it was a wedding day , a shining moment in his life , and , except for the dressed children , it could be any ordinary day . |
| 52 | Avoncliffe very poor except for feature pegs . |
| 53 | No one in Iceland ever wanted to cross the Circle he said , except for one man , the vicar of Grimsey . |
| 54 | Icelandic weather is really buggering me about , I decide , and conditions are now near perfect except for the metre of soft snow that lies over everything in sight . |
| 55 | At this point Callinicos has to be careful : it is one thing to dismiss the claims of a rootless postmodernism , wandering naked except for its designer trainers across the face of a barren late capitalism . |
| 56 | The net outcome of his days in office were that about two hundred of the cases which were brought to his attention were treated with regard for human dignity , but the law affecting the rights of dependants and visitors was not changed ( except for one fairly minor aspect : in 1974 the sexually discriminatory ‘ Husbands Rule ’ was changed to allow women born or settled in Britain to have their foreign husbands here with them ) . |
| 57 | But it was n't like I 'd imagined — except for the long silences when I 'd been hoping for laughs . |
| 58 | David Coleman has unwittingly given his name to this tradition of sporting gaffe published mercilessly in Private Eye , of which Murray Walker 's ‘ this car is absolutely unique , except for the one behind , which is identical ’ must stand for the many . |
| 59 | Large numbers of ‘ away ’ fans were uncommon except for local derbies . |
| 60 | But statistics were not at the heart of the thing except for the occasional schoolboy or zealot . |