Example sentences of "[prep] a few exception " in BNC.
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| 1 | A whole kingdom , a whole community and all Christian people , save for a few exceptions , might be put under such a sentence . |
| 2 | The show has , he said , ‘ something of the air of a school reunion about it ’ , and with a few exceptions ‘ it is the Pound business much as usual ’ . |
| 3 | Rather like the ‘ high politics ’ school of historians , Maxse believed that once inside Westminster politicians tended , with a few exceptions , to ‘ go native ’ and become interested solely in their own advancement inside this exclusive club . |
| 4 | With a few exceptions , such as Liberia under Tubman and Tolbert , and Gabon under Bongo , foreign investors have been regarded with feelings of wariness or hostility . |
| 5 | Well … with a few exceptions . ’ |
| 6 | On board , crews have become noticeably more customer-friendly ; with a few exceptions , passengers ' needs and wishes are now paramount . |
| 7 | There is a contractual relationship between firm and warehouse , saying that all the waste paper , with a few exceptions , will be sold to the factory at a fixed price . |
| 8 | With a few exceptions , the ways the House has been covered by the cameras — and equally the ways the broadcasters have used television coverage of the House in the programmes — have changed little since the experiment began . |
| 9 | But it is just this sort of research which is hardly being practised at all ( with a few exceptions : Conyers 1971 ; Okigbo 1981 ; , and a bibliography on farm systems by Gilbert , Norman & Winch 1980 ) . |
| 10 | Foreign aid is so important in conservation policy-making in lesser developed countries because , with a few exceptions , most newly independent lesser developed countries had either no official conservation organisation whatsoever ( as in Latin America with the exception of a couple of Southern Brazilian states ) or had experienced the colonial model mentioned above , principally in Africa , South and South-east Asia . |
| 11 | First , there is the question of condition : with a few exceptions the books listed have their entire life in front of them , certainly hundreds of years , and only a few are even what the booksellers would call ‘ reading copies ’ . |
| 12 | Domestic policy he tended , with a few exceptions such as social security ( where he would reprise his old refrain about the law of averages coming to the rescue of the millions ) , to regard largely as a matter of ‘ drains ’ . |
| 13 | With a few exceptions , insectivores are much less commonly represented in pellet assemblages , and lagomorphs even less so , and it has proved impossible to obtain large enough samples of these species to provide numerical data . |
| 14 | With a few exceptions particular examples of instruction programmes in individual libraries are rarely documented , and part of the reason for this is that special libraries themselves are not always entirely responsible for the education of their users . |
| 15 | Thus anything the slightest bit controversial is left out as are , with a few exceptions , references to what private individuals and companies are doing in sending objects out of the Earth 's atmosphere in the interests either of research or for financial reward . |
| 16 | It seems to be valid for virtually all animals with backbones , with a few exceptions : kangaroos , lions and birds that waddle ( but more of them later ) . |
| 17 | My guess is that , with a few exceptions , it wo n't but that in four years we 'll have another Mogg-Davidson book claiming that they got it right all along . |
| 18 | With a few exceptions , all fish have a swimbladder , the function of which is to allow the fish to float and maintain equilibrium in the water . |
| 19 | With a few exceptions , anyone who wishes to be hypnotized can be — while anyone who does not wish it can not . |
| 20 | With a few exceptions along the coast ( such as Seaford in the 1770s ) it proved more or less impossible in Sussex where the land was largely enclosed already and the soil of much of the county ill-suited to highly profitable wheat farming ; so there was little of the trauma produced elsewhere by the restructuring of the rural landscape . |
| 21 | ‘ With a few exceptions , banks and building societies are still providing a service of monumental incompetence . ’ |
| 22 | With a few exceptions , 1991 was n't a particularly memorable year in the Peak with the majority of the year 's crop of new routes being mediocre or insignificant . |
| 23 | The linguist Charles Li , writing in his introduction to a highly speculative volume on the mechanisms of syntactic change ( Li 1977 ) , claims that with a few exceptions the only documented types of word order changes that are not due to language contact are SOV to ( VSO ) to SVO . |
| 24 | The rules described for chariots apply to the Pump Wagon as well with a few exceptions which take into account its unusual construction and crew . |
| 25 | With a few exceptions , both pierceable and self-sealing cartridges from different manufacturers follow agreed standards , leading to worldwide interchangeability . |
| 26 | With a few exceptions , it was not until the 1960s that large companies in Britain began to close the gap . |
| 27 | Yet it remains true that , with a few exceptions ( which include anything to do with ships ) , the Greeks are not good at working together in large groups . |
| 28 | The principal beneficiaries were those who moved to the new houses built in the postwar housing drives , which ( with a few exceptions in remote rural areas ) all had electricity as a basic service . |
| 29 | One of the themes running through The State of the Prisons is that with a few exceptions , neither numbers nor conditions of prisoners have changed very much since Howard first visited . |
| 30 | By 1985 the average had dropped but the spread was narrower , with a few exceptions at the extremes ( the Manchester Evening News with 300,000 and the Darlington Evening Echo with 12,000 ) . |