Example sentences of "except for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except for a name that ought to look familiar to readers of Alexandre Dumas , because as Aramis it is that of one of the Three Musketeers . |
| 2 | Except for a film version of Leoncavallo 's Pagliacci , his film career was mainly an extension of his operetta activities . |
| 3 | There is much gold about his person , in the form of anklets and wristlets , but otherwise he is naked except for a leopardskin loincloth . |
| 4 | As far as is known all Sussex records refer to the race albifrons , except for a bird showing the characters of the race flavirostris at Wiggonholt on 27 January 1956 . |
| 5 | The bar was empty now except for a couple of old boys playing dominoes . |
| 6 | In , his reading aloud had proved to be successful except for a couple of occasions when he had had a particularly stressful day and had found it exceedingly difficult to relax . |
| 7 | Our submarines are all operational , you see , except for a couple of recent arrivals that are working up ; new boats getting a crew together , that is , doing sea trials and dummy runs with torpedoes . |
| 8 | The photographs showed sporting groups posing with their weapons , except for a couple which showed a man — the same in both — on one knee by a dead stag . |
| 9 | The incident room was in darkness , except for a couple of desks whose reading lights had not been switched off , a glowing computer screen and the flashing red lights of some electrical equipment . |
| 10 | She was also almost naked , except for a couple of mere scraps of the lightest chain mail and riding boots of iridescent dragonhide . |
| 11 | The water trough was empty except for a layer of scum , a beer bottle and some sweet wrappers . |
| 12 | you know like Freddy Kruger three fingers that looked like blades and every night she would go to erm the fields and erm she would go into sheep fields and cow fields and she would kill three sheep and a cow every night except for a Sunday night ! |
| 13 | Shaped like straw mushrooms , they are completely clear except for a gossamer veil which makes up their body . |
| 14 | He was a fairly typical boy of his neighbourhood , well liked by his friends , and with facial features that remained pretty unaltered through youth and early life , except for a tendency towards puppy fat . |
| 15 | His body , naked except for a pair of socks , was found dumped on wasteland near a bus depot in Shepherd 's Bush later that afternoon . |
| 16 | The square was empty , except for a pair of winos sleeping it off under the statue . |
| 17 | He was naked except for a pair of shorts and a white towelling robe , draped over one shoulder , emphasising the strength of his bronze chest . |
| 18 | John Lennon dropped in on it , and got embarrassed when the poet , naked except for a pair of underpants draped round his head , kissed him on the cheek . |
| 19 | All eyes in the room were watching the stranger — except for a pair belonging to Rincewind the wizard , who was sitting in the darkest comer nursing a mug of very small beer . |
| 20 | He appeared to be naked except for a pair of high boots , a tiny leather hold-all in the region of his groin , and a high-crested helmet . |
| 21 | Except for a rise in gold prices immediately following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August , it was bleak year for precious metals . |
| 22 | We now write unc so that each square matrix is null except for a unit in the appropriate diagonal position . |
| 23 | The third column of B is then null except for a unit in the position corresponding |
| 24 | It can not be easily defined except for a willingness to experiment and change direction , a confidence , perhaps , in hesitancy . |
| 25 | Inhibitions are rare except for a bankruptcy inhibition , which serves the same purpose as a land charge in unregistered conveyancing . |
| 26 | The criticism focused especially on the government 's delay in completing cyclone damage assessment and , except for a request for more helicopters , its failure to provide aid agencies with a detailed list of emergency supply needs . |
| 27 | He was unarmed except for a dagger with a mother-of-pearl handle pushed through an ornately embroidered belt . |
| 28 | Except for a year when I had a break from competing , I have been racing ever since and have won two club championships and nearly one hundred trophies . |
| 29 | And then I could put it all back in a ponytail except for a bit at the front dripping down . |
| 30 | His scrawny body was naked except for a loincloth and the tattered remains of a jerkin . |