| In the beginner's class, students take almost no falls except for simple backward ukemi. |     | 
| Its plain blued barrel is unadorned except for a fluorescent orange front bead. |     | 
| The dinner had gone off pretty flawlessly, except for Brian burning the Italian bread. |     | 
| It was a complete white-out, except for the ghostlike silhouette of our boat. |     | 
| The alkali metals are silver colored except for cesium, which is pale gold. |     | 
| Survivorship was higher in the caged plots than uncaged plots for both adults and juveniles except for juveniles in winter. |     | 
| So English and Canadian readers will get books that are identical except for the imprint and copyright pages. |     | 
| It did not rot, except for the weatherboards on the outside, which had to be replaced from time to time. |     | 
| The events of his three years on the road, except for a few short asides, make up the plot of the novel. |     | 
| Thankfully he was unhurt except for a cut on his knee, though his bike did land squarely on top of him. |     | 
| Is it because, except for the 4 main actors, none of the rest can act to save their roles? |     | 
| It was self-published and, essentially undistributed, except for the free copies to press people. |     | 
| I've always found poker players at casinos to be engaging and chatty people, except for the occasional loose cannon. |     | 
| There was a dead silence in the room except for the occasional crackle of the jumping embers inside the fireplace. |     | 
| The train shifted and began moving, silent, except for the hum of the generators that kept the lights going. |     | 
| Some people here eschew all the electrical gadgets, except for fairy lights on the Christmas tree. |     | 
| There was complete silence except for the howl of the wind as it tugged at his clothes and face. |     | 
| The table fell silent except for the sound of utensils clattering against our best china. |     | 
| Forward of the boilers there is little but scraps of metal, except for the anchor winch, chains and anchors. |     | 
| As most of you know, the contestants in a sumo match traditionally fight naked except for a loincloth called a mawashi. |     | 
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| She is very resourceful and thrifty, but her face is always expressionless, except for an occasional look of fear. |     | 
| Cheap oil is also in the interest of developing countries, except for those which are oil exporters. |     | 
| M is my wife, and I had written that we are compatible in all respects, except for hang-ups regarding past relationships. |     | 
| Dating is rare among the Karakalpaks, except for those living in large cities such as Nukus. |     | 
| Brightly colored fabric and large tapestries lined all the walls except for the one directly in front of the doors. |     | 
| The classroom is silent except for the sound of crackling parchment paper and Lang's occasional suggestion. |     | 
| He is dressed sprucely, except for his rubber overshoes, evidences of the chill, watery Parisian spring. |     | 
| The Miller Farm no longer raises livestock, except for a few pet horses, goats and sheep. |     | 
| Ronald Granger has not made any changes to the office during his tenure here, except for a picture of Frances and his children. |     | 
| Its members sit for five years, except for student representatives who hold their positions for one year. |     | 
| All were dressed in their Sunday-go-to-meeting best except for my wife and me. |     | 
| Yet except for ethnic companies, dancers with Hispanic surnames are still rare in U.S. ensembles. |     | 
| I had the place all to myself, except for the swans and orange-billed oystercatchers. |     | 
| The rest of the day went quickly except for a few fails in tests but hey, what's new? |     | 
| On our traveling, there was silence, except for the occasional tweets of birds and the soft blow of the wind. |     | 
| Although older texts emphasized parasitic infestation, this is a rare cause of pruritus ani except for pinworms in children. |     | 
| But I guess no one else did, though British infantry NCO's who rate a sword do have sword knots, except for Scottish infantry. |     | 
| The garden seemed to be doing fine, except for a foot-high mound of chewed-up dirt on the grass near the edge of the garden. |     | 
| And, except for a few periods of total debauchery, I've always been so, albeit a serial monogamist. |     | 
| There should be no other colors on the bird except for a nice broad white bib under it's throat. |     | 
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| Most of the group managed to get to sleep, except for a girl that just stared at the moon. |     | 
| It had over a dozen different words written on it and all were scratched out except for the last. |     | 
| He was fuelled by his greed, with no conscious thoughts except for gaining his desire. |     | 
| He ran across the battle field, wielding no weapon except for a small knife. |     | 
| They have no linguistic relationship to any other language except for a vague similarity to the Athabaskan language. |     | 
| He was always careful not to touch her, except for his brush, and then with just the gentlest of strokes. |     | 
| Improbably, the screening goes off without a hitch and, except for the 30 or 40 people who walk out, the response is very positive. |     | 
| Oh yes, there were brawls, and shoot-outs every day at noon, except for Sunday. |     | 
| Whatever it was, it glowed bright white, except for two red parts shaped like overlarge eyes in the middle of the face. |     | 
| With the turn to realism, Shakespeare lost his prominence except for touring foreign actors. |     | 
| I put everything except for a pair of the pyjamas and the underwear into my closet. |     | 
| In the dried skin, the maxilla is blackish except for the tip, which is paler. |     | 
| The next school day Sarah noticed that Steve was in most of her classes, except for choir. |     | 
| The courtyard was silent except for the sound of falling water, the fountain and the rain. |     | 
| Not much land, either, except for a poky office in a basement in Camden Town. |     | 
| No remnants of these prairies survive, except for linear strips along railways. |     | 
| Radford's historical research was meticulous, and, except for an occasional, very minor slip, the result is astonishing. |     | 
| Management loved him, except for the fact that he was always a few minutes late for work. |     | 
| Yet within a month she was lying in an iron lung, paralysed except for a single eye-lid. |     | 
| Plumage on a mature blue goose is a deep slate tone except for a white head and, in some, a buff-colored belly. |     | 
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| All the refugees were asleep except for the patrolling officers with flashlights making rounds around the aisles of sleeping bags and cots. |     | 
| Expressionless except for his puffed cheeks, he blew his whistle twice, signaling us to fall in line behind the school's back door. |     | 
| As she stood in the room, all was silent, except for the quiet breathing from everyone, and the sound of the door being bolted shut. |     | 
| All except for 47 Ursae Majoris are gas giants orbiting closer to their suns than Mercury orbits our sun. |     | 
| The majority of people speak Tuvaluan, a Polynesian language, except for the inhabitants of Nui who speak a mainly Gilbertese dialect. |     | 
| The desserts were similarly cloying, except for a plate of crumbly, warm chocolate-chip cookies, served with a bowl of coconut milk. |     | 
| Allotments commonly became so divided by heirship that they were virtually worthless except for leasing. |     | 
| It's actually quite relaxing, except for when she presses on an area near the big toe of my left foot which is total agony. |     | 
| The editing is splendid except for an inordinate number of misprints, especially in proper names and in foreign words. |     | 
| Inorganic chemistry is the study of the chemistry of all the elements in the periodic table except for carbon. |     | 
| He never goes to extremes and has no vices, except for the inability to pass up a bargain. |     | 
| Instead it seems that it is mostly squalid and often dangerous, but out of sight, out of mind, except for those who live there. |     | 
| They are nice in every way, except for the fact that they always try to mooch food from us. |     | 
| Flyovers were generally excluded, except for those species that normally forage or search for food in flight. |     | 
| Cattle seem to absorb less radioactivity than sheep, except for the milk, which is to be avoided at all costs because of the iodine. |     | 
| I can't think of a single reason to buy this album except for morbid curiosity. |     | 
| The use of bitless bridles, bearing reins and check reins is prohibited except for hackneys in special classes or on road drives. |     | 
| Neonatal morbidity rates were similar except for an abnormal umbilical artery pH that was more common in infants born after delayed pushing. |     | 
| And with the wagon, the floorpan is the same as the sedan, except for the rear section. |     | 
| Adults are black except for white wing linings visible when the birds are soaring. |     | 
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| If using tarot cards, the trump suits of both decks are removed except for a single copy of The Fool. |     | 
| The Cape of Good Hope is a wild, windswept nature reserve that would pass for coastal Kerry, except for the baboons and unusual vegetation. |     | 
| The labellum is broad and obtuse, except for the yellow base, which stands erect and half-encloses the column. |     | 
| One example was the banishment of music from meals, except for the express purpose of complementing a particular food. |     | 
| It was a hotel, dark except for the light from an open elevator and a floor lamp by one couch. |     | 
| We use a non-standard signalling on most of our trackage, except for parts that we inherited from another operator. |     | 
| The IR blaster solution worked well, except for a slight lag in remote control response. |     | 
| Ten male Sprague-Dawley breeder rats, weighing between 450 and 550 g, were fasted overnight, except for free access to water. |     | 
| It is now illegal to hunt fur seals, except for an exemption allowing Indians, Aleuts, and Eskimos to continue to hunt at a subsistence level. |     | 
| There was nothing, except for my distaste for the stifling culture of public school, that made the experience unusually unpleasant. |     | 
| Therefore, no credit at all except for some vocabulary is given to Turkish languages in the history of development of Urdu, Hindi or Hindustani. |     | 
| Door weather stripping is installed on the door frame except for door sweeps and some thresholds. |     | 
| We did not have any combat arms soldiers to conduct our convoys, except for the first sergeant, executive officer, and commander. |     | 
| But finally the state enforced better emissions standards, and the talc disappeared, except for traces here and there. |     | 
| In other countries, media are simply banned from covering military operations except for passing on government statements. |     | 
| Still, the Pentagon insists that, except for a slight slip in retention in the National Guard, recruiting is not suffering. |     | 
| I didn't have the stamina and motivation to ever complete a work of fiction, except for schoolwork. |     | 
| Lex's room isn't what he would have expected at all, except for the purple sheets and hangings on the bed. |     | 
| It was in fact a spiral trochoid joint with a cuneiform convexity in all the simian primates except for the humans. |     | 
| There was no one there, except for a tall figure standing by in the distance. |     | 
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| The optimal solution in my eyes is to have smoking banned in public places except for designated smoking areas. |     | 
| Chlamydomonas braunii is just like C. reinhardtii, except for the fact that it is anisogamous. |     | 
| I didn't tell anyone about this at the time, except for two or three of the Saivite monastics who were with me in Switzerland. |     | 
| When she finally stumbled down to breakfast the table was empty except for a brown-haired young man with hazel eyes. |     | 
| This really ticked off Lisa and she turned around without saying anything else except for a groan or a whine or a sigh every once in a while. |     | 
| The alley was pitch black except for the reflected glitter of the water on the walls. |     | 
| He says that life in Bolton is not too different to that in Austria, except for the weather. |     | 
| The whole week went real smooth, except for one little incident where I kind of poked a hole in one of the pictures. |     | 
| He was not injured except for a few scratches and black and blue marks over both shoulders caused by the harness straps when the chute opened. |     | 
| The creature stayed fast asleep the entire time, not even moving except for its smooth, hairless chest. |     | 
| The soils are mostly leached sands and are defined as generally poor in nutrients and relatively saline except for the clay riverine soils. |     | 
| However, the biggest difference from other sports events was that there were few spectators, except for numerous uniformed police officers. |     | 
| Bird names in which the genus and species are identical except for capitalisation are apparently called tautonyms. |     | 
| But except for edamame and some especially delectable kimchi, pork pervades all. |     | 
| It had been thought that the Malayan tapir is usually solitary, except for a female with young. |     | 
| This will list the basic words that appear in these languages, except for Ugaritic which was discovered later. |     | 
| The sky was blue except for the parts that were covered by those big fluffy white clouds. |     | 
| Their underparts are mostly white, except for barring and striations along the rear of the birds. |     | 
| The library was nearly deserted except for a few stragglers checking out books or reading in corners. |     | 
| Traffic was nil, except for us, which was fortunate considering the way I was bogarting both lanes. |     | 
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| The clothes she had given him were baggy except for the white undershirt and the suspenders. |     | 
| This was made of stone, beneath a sky dark and featureless except for faint points of light that might be stars. |     | 
| All was talk except for what mattered most, which were unspoken understandings. |     | 
| People always got well except for when children got polio and died or got put in iron lungs, but that was only in summer. |     | 
| Simon's holdout was bitter, but the change has been good for him, except for the injuries he suffered through. |     | 
| They're transfixed, except for one boy in the back row who's busy picking the stuffing out of his cushion. |     | 
| There's nothing spectacular about one's birth, except for all the oohs and aahs from various aunts and uncles. |     | 
| They are clearly aware that there is no other way to elevate their social status except for working terribly hard. |     | 
| She was dressed all in black beneath the jacket, except for a pen clipped to her collar. |     | 
| It was of course empty, except for the small hills of old hay piled in corners. |     | 
| The protoconch is paucispiral or multispiral, and is smooth except for a few axial riblets near the junction with the teleoconch. |     | 
| He was very handsome, except for the pale skin that was turning brown and the sunken cheeks and other visible hollow or gaunt areas. |     | 
| All of the many border gates were raised, except for the last one at the customs booth, and the chicane was not guarded. |     | 
| It would have been dark except for the light coming from the translucent side panels. |     | 
| Ann is 70 years old and lives alone, except for her long-time companion, an aging calico cat named Molly. |     | 
| Passareil said nothing and the room went quiet except for the sounds of grief wafting up from below. |     | 
| It's empty during the week, except for the occasional pick up game with neighborhood folks wearing street clothes. |     | 
| As usual a great time was had by all except for an outbreak of gratuitous flatulence. |     | 
| The red light changed, and they started moving again, except for the line of cars behind the van. |     | 
| Together, they're a couple of test-lab refugees with little in common except for the three feet of chain that shackles them together. |     | 
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| He was naked except for a pair of mustard-coloured jockettes and rubber flip-flops. |     | 
| Instead of her common, ordinary brown eyes, her eyes now were completely black, except for one small glowing gold pupil in the center. |     | 
| Around nine, I started to walk down to the old plantation house it was dark out, except for occasional tiki torches and the moonlit sky. |     | 
| The hall fell suddenly and completely silent, except for the sound of the glass tinkling slightly and the wine dripping down the wall. |     | 
| However, I knew him all of my life and he could not speak Quapaw at all except for a few words. |     | 
| Cynthia was completely undressed, except for the pale cream under-slip that fit like a thin, baggy dress. |     | 
| Derryn dressed the same as he always had despite going into war, except for the horse he was on and the kite shield strapped around one arm. |     | 
| The burn injury destroys surface microbes except for Gram positive organisms located in the depths of the sweat glands or hair follicles. |     | 
| The advance on a book, except for a few hundred authors internationally, tends to be not very much. |     | 
| It was past midnight and the place was pretty much deserted except for a couple of guys having quiet drinks at the all night bar. |     | 
| Actually, for most of the time the path was sound, except for spring-fed squelches. |     | 
| Most people avoided the place entirely, except for perhaps the occasional adventurer or scientist. |     | 
| All this is conventional, except for the projection forward of present-day mechanisms and gadgetry. |     | 
| We're willing to do that once, because, except for a few economists, no one really wants to keep dickering over each new sliver of value. |     | 
| All academic documents show the student admissible except for language proficiency. |     | 
| The room was dark, except for an eerie glow of green from a weak neon lamp on the ceiling. |     | 
| Three years ago the plant converted its paper carton line to plastic bottles, except for half-pints for schools. |     | 
| But the room was almost empty except for 2 stools, a short table, a thin moth-eaten blanket, and an empty bookcase. |     | 
| The programme lacked lustre as no commoner was present except for those affiliated with the government in some way or the other. |     | 
| Next to the basketball courts there was a handball wall that was rarely used except for graffiti. |     | 
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| While Belochamp was almost a uniform gray except for his white mane and tail, Theram had a white star and stockings on both his hind legs. |     | 
| A horse, totally black except for a white star on his face came out, with his ears pinned. |     | 
| When the play became a film, the entire original cast returned except for Tandy, who was replaced with Gone with the Wind's Vivien Leigh. |     | 
| It's not a happy election climate, that's for sure, except for the ravers and the ragers. |     | 
| They didn't see each other very often, except for chance meetings at meal times, when they felt strong enough to go to the mess hall. |     | 
| He wears check shirts, worked as a cowman all his life, except for his years in the army. |     | 
| Dinner went by reasonably quickly, and in the blink of an eye, they were fast asleep, except for one. |     | 
| Before this, except for a few wealthy or powerful individuals worth ransoming, captured soldiers could be, and very often were, put to the sword. |     | 
| It all looks more real than the real Venice, except for the lack of pigeon pooh. |     | 
| They had left him chained in the room, limbs akimbo, naked except for crimson-soaked bandages. |     | 
| In other words, we know nothing about our deft and masterful artist except for his name. |     | 
| There are timber floors throughout the property, except for the dining and utility areas where terracotta tiling is used. |     | 
| And the latter had recently announced that plastic surgery, except for specifically therapeutic reasons, was a sin. |     | 
| Essentially this ditches almost all animal agriculture except for beef and dairy products. |     | 
| Find the Lady is, except for the props used, essentially the same as the probably centuries-older shell game or thimblerig. |     | 
| Along the staircase, everything goes black except for a few colored lights here and there. |     | 
| The stage is bare except for three slender tree trunks, a few clay pots and a basket. |     | 
| Today, nothing remains of the airfield except for a 500m2 plot of land donated by a farmer which has been turned into a small memorial park. |     | 
| They resembled green humanoid lizards, except for the black bodysuits and mechanical claws. |     | 
| He was a short, balding man who was fairly thin, except for his quite large and protuberant beer belly. |     | 
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| My family, yes, except for maybe that strange third cousin of mine serving his fifth time in jail for drug possession. |     | 
| The trailer was cramped and had no furniture except for a mattress and a wooden bench. |     | 
| Light brown hair was brushed back from a high forehead except for a few locks which fell forward. |     | 
| As for the Hindi newspapers, except for something on page two of the Navbharat Times, it got nary a mention. |     | 
| Still except for sundry exceptions of inadequate transference and omission, he renders them competently. |     | 
| There are no legal restrictions on who can marry except for marriages between close relatives. |     | 
| The seasonally inundated plain habitat covered the remainder of the floodplain, except for the permanently wet areas. |     | 
| He was not paid except for tips he could get from spectators by telling hunting stories about some of the falcons on the cadge. |     | 
| The interim order also forbids him from lighting fires on any land except for land that he legally owns by way of a title deed. |     | 
| The media coverage is always sensationalized here in the US except for possibly Public Radio. |     | 
| The skin lesions are nonpalpable macules that may persist for months to years and are typically asymptomatic except for the cosmetic appearance. |     | 
| Even though everybody is under 13, the room is quiet except for some tearful whimpers of fear and anticipated pain. |     | 
| I never had anyone who paid attention, except for the angel that's watching over me from heaven. |     | 
| Samara looked just like any other girl in school except for her ankle socks. |     | 
| The expression he wore was calm, almost completely serene, except for the penetrating glare he had trained on Travis. |     | 
| The second and third toes of syndactylous species are mostly enclosed in a sheath of skin and appear fused, except for the claws. |     | 
| The bridge replaces the old North Bridge which has now been closed except for light traffic and pedestrians. |     | 
| Without revenue, except for meager voluntary state requisitions, Congress could not even pay the interest on its outstanding debt. |     | 
| They say, except for jobs creation, the economy was firing on all cylinders from July through September. |     | 
| Later, upholstery covered the entire chair, except for the legs and stretchers. |     | 
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| The room was empty and, except for the occasional moans of the wind, there was no sound. |     | 
| There were two bars on top on the right and left but nothing underneath except for the leaf springs. |     | 
| Imagine losing all of your worldly possessions except for whatever you may have haphazardly thrown in a suitcase two weeks ago. |     | 
| No severe psychiatric illness was observed except for one patient with schizophrenia. |     | 
| The amount of each nutrient in the supplement was the recommended dietary allowance for pregnant or lactating woman, except for iron and zinc. |     | 
| I would say we have a happy marriage except for the fact that he occasionally loses his temper and shouts at me. |     | 
| And everybody here belongs to the club except me, and that's all right except for the fact that I'm here. |     | 
| In fact most perching birds lay eggs that are mostly white except for a ring of reddish spots around the blunt end. |     | 
| It has pure white body feathers except for the black alulae, primary techrices and primary remiges. |     | 
| The skies are quiet except for the occasional sandhill crane and its raucous cries. |     | 
| A map of Victoria in 1869 showed most of the colony, except for the Western District and the central goldfields, still under forest cover. |     | 
| The big monitor in the center was all black, except for some green text splashed across the screen. |     | 
| The room was silent once more, except for Bart and Milhouse discussing a lemon tree on the television. |     | 
| However, they end up trapping themselves in the garage, without means of escape except for a couple of electric sanders. |     | 
| Come ten o'clock in the evening we've generally begun to stretch and yawn, and by ten thirty the house is quiet except for gentle snoring. |     | 
| So, the others, except for the overnighters, hadn't woken up, yet, while you were preparing breakfast? |     | 
| She scored all of her points off leg attacks, and except for a little let-down in the second round, she was just dominant. |     | 
| He thinks the current generation of hardware has moved beyond it, except for technical limitations. |     | 
| Nothing too frightening happened, except for the fact that he was relieved of fifty euro by two large gentlemen. |     | 
| I love a trip to the cinema except for the rather sticky residue on the floor. |     | 
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| The room was dark except for the light from the computer monitor, which cast a ghostly blue shade on the mother and daughter's faces. |     | 
| Almost everyone in the community was for it except for the president of the shul. |     | 
| He's showing no more interest than before, except for a spark of amusement on his face that's impossible for me to miss. |     | 
| It was rather plain, except for a small amulet which hung from the metallic necklace. |     | 
| The room was uncommonly tidy, except for the books on the desk, and there were no pictures on the walls. |     | 
| Bangalore turns in early on winter nights, except for the few who frequent late night movie shows or night spots. |     | 
| The arbitration continued and is now concluded except for the arbitrator's award. |     | 
| It is midnight and around me, except for the soldiers out on operations or on guard, 5,000 fighting men and their support staff are sleeping. |     | 
| He actually is the Chief Diplomatic Officer, except for our presently undiplomatic incumbent there. |     | 
| David feels like he is in another world, noiseless except for the scuffing of the barber's shoes on the lino and the snap of his scissors. |     | 
| He sat alone in the room, darkness engulfing everywhere except for the area touched by the flames of the fire in the large stone hearth. |     | 
| It's as if Victoria wants to remembered for something else except for mothering David's kids, and being trampled on at the same time. |     | 
| This piece stands in its original shape except for the replacement of the flambeau. |     | 
| There was nothing he could do to stop her, except for using the emotional blackmail which she seemed to have become so good at. |     | 
| They are glossy black except for white markings on their face and underparts, with a tufted tail and slight mane. |     | 
| A former Penguin will center Jagr's line, but except for on the power play, it won't be Lang. |     | 
| She wasn't injured, except for a little smudge of lipstick, and I was taken away in an ambulance. |     | 
| Basically, the setup and execution are the same as for reverse wrist curls, except for the grip, which is underhand. |     | 
| Those ones where the sky is completely grey except for a bright spot where the sun is blotted out and the rain comes and goes. |     | 
| Most metal sulfates are soluble in water, except for barium, lead, and strontium. |     | 
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| The church was quiet except for the mournful organ and the rustling sound adults made at times like this. |     | 
| Flows in the other direction will generally be less dangerous, except for the fact that one-way relationships are difficult to sustain. |     | 
| I was fully in character, except for the non-pleated slacks and the fact that, once again, I was zonked on great weed. |     | 
| The ball stays in the Aussie forward line except for a brief foray forward by the Irish. |     | 
| Little shade covered this area of Arizona except for shadows cast by tall cacti. |     | 
| All images, except for MG 6438 which is a female, are of male stitchbirds. |     | 
| With such undetailed, unprogrammed agendas it is really hard to figure out what real demands the people who voted for them have, except for better lives. |     | 
| All rooms are carpeted except for the kitchen, which is tiled. |     | 
| But if you can stir your stumps, avoid the trippery town of Paphos, except for the Roman Villa of the mosaics, and go up to the Vineyards of the Troodos. |     | 
| Talking to the strings and Glover afterwards, they seem less than thrilled with the sound, which is unamplified except for the piano and bandoneon. |     | 
| The cave was silent except for an occasional crackle from the dying fire. |     | 
| In three months of daily protests, except for a few instances of arson and the police murdering one protestor, the Black Power revolution was bloodless. |     | 
| The garage was dark except for the strobing blue glow of a TV set. |     | 
| She was totally black except for a white blaze and one white sock. |     | 
| His narrative provided my father with a good deal of background and color though, except for the incident of the unhorsed Indian, few useful specifics. |     | 
| Underground I was rather nervous at first but that soon disappeared except for a few places such as the first set of traverses, which for a normal fit person would be fine. |     | 
| Morning One, December 22, 2008 The dorm was dark and quiet except for the intermittent buzzing of a faint snore or more. |     | 
| The side decks are uncluttered except for the necessary genoa track and the mast shrouds are well inboard for easy passage and improved sheeting angles. |     | 
| Well, I sat through this entire trial except for a few weeks, and I think that the jury did an excellent job of evaluating the case and mulling it over. |     | 
| The whole continent, except for some semi-inaccessible places in the alps, northern Scotland or Scandinavia, has been groomed and tended by the hand of man. |     | 
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| Most of the cast had their lines memorized, except for Dan, of course. |     | 
| The stage is bare except for an image of a god at stage left. |     | 
| The landscape was virtually empty except for an occasional horse, cluster of cattle, oil wells, and a small house with windmill and cattle drinking troughs. |     | 
| If you would just like to ask your solicitor, otherwise it will be a lot of going round the houses to achieve nothing except for saving the defendant having to pay something. |     | 
| Except for the maddening crowds at every store, and except for the idiots at Roosevelt Field mall and except for the madmen on the road today, it was a stellar day. |     | 
| They want to rip up the safety net, except for the portion that covers those who are already receiving benefits. |     | 
| As Erik rose to his feet in the shallow waters she could see that he was again bare to the waist, except for a white bandage wrapped around his left bicep. |     | 
| Sure enough, everything not in a pocket was striped except for the black eight ball, which Violet was aiming at with a look of concentration on her face. |     | 
| The case studies used in the survey were of patients who had been fitted with hearing aids binaurally, except for case 2 who obviously was fitted monaurally. |     | 
| Perhaps my current love of books and their acquisition can be traced back to the far too many hours I spent in childhood alone except for their pulpy companionship. |     | 
| Nothing much new here except for the uneasy feeling that my personal life is likely to get some disagreeable publicity soon. |     | 
| Almost every dramatic or comedy film of the early 1930s was virtually scoreless, except for the music heard during the opening and closing credits. |     | 
| The captain tried to say all the cameras were functional except for the one in the cabin where the body was found. |     | 
| I was wearing a good pair of denim blue jeans and a simple beige top that had sequins decorating the front and no jewelry except for a pair of sterling silver studs. |     | 
| Yet it is plausible for the Eared Grebe because, except for large but irregular die-offs involving losses to disease and migration, annual mortality appears to be low. |     | 
| He was much too pale, except for the dark shadows beneath his eyes. |     | 
| Steve taxied the Lightning and did a fast run down the runway and except for a minor hydraulic problem, pronounced the plane to be in fine condition. |     | 
| Japan froze yen soft loans and aid grants to the two countries for new projects, except for emergency and humanitarian aid and assistance for grassroots projects. |     | 
| Perhaps, except for older Australians, the term wowser is nearly obsolete, as the state fights to keep other addictive mind-altering drugs illegal and difficult to obtain. |     | 
| The complex sleeps at night, except for a handful of sentries and guards. |     | 
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| Finally I managed a smooth getaway and went in to shop, none the worse for the encounter and thinking about how much D.J. looks like her Mama except for that red hair. |     | 
| At the close of this last stage, the bereaved is not expected to continue his mourning, except for brief moments when yizkor or yahrzeit is observed. |     | 
| Here, there would be such a huge number of electrons and positrons created that the radiation would be trapped, except for a thin layer at the outer edge of the gas. |     | 
| The fog lay thick and cold over the countryside that morning, and inside the barracks it was pitch-black and silent, except for the deep, steady breathing of the gunners. |     | 
| Is there no materiality except for the materiality of language? |     | 
| I eventually settled for a bean curd skin and soba soup at a little Japanese place, which was ok except for the fact that I had meant to ask for Udon. |     | 
| Most aircraft except for helicopters will bank to make a turn. |     | 
| Services were disrupted during World War I and the interwar period witnessed few new developments except for the introduction of diesel motorships. |     | 
| It was dead quiet, except for the muted voices coming from the gymnasium. |     | 
| The act requires descendants of George II, except for princesses marrying into a foreign family, to gain the monarch's permission in order for their marriage to be valid. |     | 
| Thus, every room of the house was redone except for the kitchen. |     | 
| Summers were hot and dry except for occasional thundershowers. |     | 
| She didn't move a muscle, except for the slight spasm in her hand. |     | 
| Most boring bits, at first glance, may look the same except for size. |     | 
| The editorial is probably on-target except for one teensy detail. |     | 
| The drive back home was uneventful except for a change in the sky. |     | 
| This is genuinely good news except for the fact that by then new genomic-based therapies will be available, blowing a hole in the national strategies. |     | 
| But except for the four lapsed Mormons who attended, they stood alone. |     | 
| Look a little closer at the well-groomed kids with innocent, idyllic faces in school blazers or the teens that look identical to their parents except for their age. |     | 
| But the war grew wings and swept on and except for one Ju 88 who buzzed the field without biting yet drew 5000 rounds from the eager ack-ack boys. |     |