Example sentences of "except [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His poetry — there are now 50 books of it , no less — comes in all shapes and sizes , all colours and sounds , except the muted . |
| 2 | It reminded me of Cenotaph , except the right wall overhung . |
| 3 | Thus he caught the police station and the whole city during those few fictional july days when everything except the Epilogue happens . |
| 4 | Most , except the PCB burners , have since closed . |
| 5 | All other things which are done instead of talking are a waste of time , are being used as excuses to delay the whole process , and will bear no fruit whatsoever , except the killing which is going on every day … |
| 6 | Other sections of the Partei ( except the government speakers ) are allowed to express dissenting views . |
| 7 | They send me exactly the same as unsigned bands except the tape is invariably a finished master of high quality . |
| 8 | Seconds later she shoulder-charged the door , and found herself in an eerie moonlit room where she could distinguish nothing , except the deafening howls which seemed to reverberate off the walls . |
| 9 | Everybody except the best man went to the rails for Holy Communion . |
| 10 | Hardly anyone ever travels the full 3,727 miles from sea to frigid sea — Halifax , Nova Scotia to Vancouver , British Columbia — except the odd , crazed British journalist . |
| 11 | They blocked efficient economic combinations that posed no competitive risk to anyone , except the merging parties ' slower-footed rivals . |
| 12 | ‘ The pleasure of being top , and nothing else , except the interest of my father , made me do such homework as I did in the evenings … . |
| 13 | None of the holders of an estate , except the tenant in fee simple when in possession , was fully owner , but each as he came into possession was a ‘ limited ’ owner . |
| 14 | In the case of joint tenancy , on the other hand , the rights of each ( except the last survivor ) are extinguished by his death so as to increase the interest of the survivor or survivors . |
| 15 | Except the little bundle of Papers folded together under his pillow . |
| 16 | Telepathy is like empathy , except the message is less generalised and more specific . |
| 17 | Except the life has gone out of me and in some curious way I hardly care . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Except the murderer , ’ he observed . |
| 19 | Well , better than that , and one of the best things about it is the fact that so few people , except the French themselves , bother with it . |
| 20 | Keep in mind that the off-season for all of Florida , except the panhandle , is the summer , which is consistently hot and sultry . |
| 21 | ‘ Nobody will listen , except the converted , the communists and that 's nae use . ’ |
| 22 | One particularly good comment at the time , much appreciated by everyone — except the recipient I assume — was the card that read Arciduca 6 1 0 , translated as ‘ Archduke VI , you ( one ) are nothing ’ . |
| 23 | All Slavs except the Poles became ‘ Panslavists ’ . |
| 24 | In 1703 Bishop Nicholson records a Churchwarden 's remark characteristic of the sturdy independence of Dalesmen , ‘ Except the Vicar and the Schoolmaster , we have not a Gentleman among us , nor can any remember the time we had a Beggar . ’ |
| 25 | A high hedge of hibiscus screened all of the front from passers-by , except the window at the end which Nana used as a shop counter , letting down the shutter when she was open for business . |
| 26 | Genetically speaking , the reason for this is that all the cells except the sex cells in a wolf 's body have the same genes , while , as for the sex cells , all the genes have an equal chance of being in each one of them . |
| 27 | The Christians , because of the Jewish origin of their religion , at first adhered to the Jewish seven-day week in which the days , except the Sabbath , were numbered but not named . |
| 28 | It was the photographic equivalent of sawing a lady in half , except the photographer was also the lady . |
| 29 | No one else , except the media , wanted to know . |
| 30 | Nothing , except the hum of a dozen flies . |