Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] few exception " in BNC.
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| 1 | While newer recruits prefer to pin their faith on an ‘ objective ’ , ‘ scientific ’ conception of pollution standards which should — in theory at least — be rigorously applied , the older men , with relatively few exceptions , prefer to ‘ be reasonable ’ and to ‘ understand the polluter 's problems ’ . |
| 2 | When one thinks that in France the present generation has seen neither court gowns nor a ceremony of this sort and that , with very few exceptions , the ladies of high society do not come to the Tuileries , one is struck by the fact that everything should pass off so well and without lending itself to too much mockery . |
| 3 | With very few exceptions , depending on the shape of the dog 's head , all should have the so-called ‘ scissor-bite ’ . |
| 4 | With very few exceptions they have refrained from ostentation : indeed their Nonconformist distaste for personal extravagance , reinforced by infusions of Scottish blood , has sometimes prompted small economies which , in the light of their extraordinary benevolence to good causes , have been accepted as amusingly careful instead of absurdly mean . |
| 5 | With very few exceptions — and we shall come to one of the most remarkable of these in this chapter — it is a nocturnal hunter . |
| 6 | In any case , even for those with the extent and shape of garden to be able to consider size , shape of beds , borders and orientation , aspect is not of crucial major importance , because with very few exceptions , roses are hardy and do not need mollycoddling . |
| 7 | Ramblers With very few exceptions , the ramblers are distinguished from the climbers by flowering in one display of bloom and then no more , on long flexible stems that have developed the year before . |
| 8 | With very few exceptions , almost all the routes are on rough , near-virgin limestone , for only a small number of the easier classics have become polished — sadly , but perhaps inevitably , including the superb slabby pillar of Marie ( HVS5b ) . |
| 9 | There is little doubt Brits are among the world 's most powerful boulderers , but put them on anything higher than an average cellar roof and they climb , with very few exceptions , like pumped , nervous and confused lemmings . |
| 10 | With very few exceptions the rule is that Parliament determines the maximum penalty and it is then for the courts , having heard the evidence , and seen the defendant in person , and heard what can be said in mitigation on his behalf , to decide upon the appropriate punishment in all the circumstances of the case . |
| 11 | Though males usually grasp the females , the act of fertilisation still , with very few exceptions , takes place outside the body . |
| 12 | The introduction of girls was quite a novelty , as with very few exceptions the ancient grammar school foundations were generally only for boys . |
| 13 | Yet , with very few exceptions , they succeed in getting back to exactly the same stretch of river where they hatched . |
| 14 | by no means all words are equally mobile in this sense , but with very few exceptions , the smallest mobile units are words . |
| 15 | Dobereiner , Newlands and Mendeleev grouped the then known elements by chemical properties , and found that their masses formed a steady sequence , with very few exceptions . |
| 16 | With very few exceptions , judges are required to be selected from amongst practising barristers and it is difficult for anyone without a private income to survive the first years of practice . |
| 17 | With very few exceptions , however , this has not proved to be the case , largely because Latin American states have retained a high degree of integration with , and dependence on , the developed capitalist economies . |
| 18 | With very few exceptions , no foreigner was allowed in , and no native was allowed out . |
| 19 | As this provision catered for only a small proportion of part-time further education teachers and , with very few exceptions , led to no formal qualification , it in no way constituted an adequate or unified system of training . |
| 20 | With very few exceptions , such as the case of George Perkins Marsh , man before 1900 had a hostile view of the earth ; his need was to conquer and subdue nature . |
| 21 | With very few exceptions , they found the world of FE a little alien , but showed no adversarial tendencies ; they were unanimous in their insistence on high standards and will help us attain and maintain these . |
| 22 | With very few exceptions , in the chapters that follow , we shall need only be concerned with assignment that is combined with qualification ; and , for the sake of brevity , we shall use assignment , alone , to mean assignment of qualification . |
| 23 | In modern biology sex is defined purely in terms of the size of the sex cell and the convention is that the male has the small mobile sex cell and the female has the large relatively immobile sex cell and , with very few exceptions , this is found everywhere , throughout sexual animals , plants and fungi . |
| 24 | Really with very few exceptions it 's simply a bit of harmless fun . |
| 25 | But the major posts , with very few exceptions , were still European ones . |