Example sentences of "[noun sg] except [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fighting had started after Gen. Aoun had effectively ordered the LF to disband , declaring that no-one was permitted to bear arms or carry a military identity card except for Army soldiers . |
| 2 | Ronny Johnsen as sole forward was crap — they all were crap except for Bohinen of Forest … |
| 3 | Transcription reactions contained , in a final volume of 25 µl , 25 mM Tris-HCl ( pH 7.5 ) , 10 mM MgCl 2 , 20 mM NaCl , 4% glycerol , ammonium sulphate up to 48 mM ( for P A2b except in Figure 7 , see legend ) or 92 mM ( for P A3 ) , and σ A -RNA polymerase ( 35 nM final concentration except in Figure 5 , see legend ) . |
| 4 | If Anselm with so many claims to respect could not do better than this , there could be no hope except in forgery : this was to be the next step . |
| 5 | The second and later major influence on Barth has been , again by his own admission , that of Borges and he has set on record his admiration for that writer in his most famous article , ‘ The Literature of Exhaustion ’ ( 1967 ) , in which he argues that certain literary forms may be used up and so are no longer available to the writer except as parody . |
| 6 | As expected , the addition of bFGF to sucralfate did not augment the gastroprotective activity of this drug except in stress lesions , which were significantly more reduced after treatment with the combination of bFGF and sucralfate than with each agent separately . |
| 7 | The Greeks spent several centuries under the heel of the Ottoman empire , which allowed them no form of self-government except in church matters ( about which the Turks were on the whole remarkably liberal ) . |
| 8 | The votes of the minority have not counted as the clear expression of a minority opinion ; they have not counted at all in the eyes of the majority except as evidence of Catholic disloyalty to the Northern semi-state . |
| 9 | Again no smell except for chrism where the priest had anointed the dead man . |
| 10 | For example an official may refuse to issue a necessary certificate except upon payment of a fee which exceeds that which he may lawfully exact or an authority may threaten seizure of goods or disconnection of vital supplies if an unlawful demand is not met . |
| 11 | Do not ask for or accept information , advice , or direction except from railway officials or the Travellers ' Aid . |
| 12 | All the employees of Champaign , Illinois-based Addamax Corp except for president Peter Alsberg have left the firm to form a new wholly independent company as a result of the fallout from Addamax 's on-going $100m anti-trust litigation against the Open Software Foundation and Foundation sponsors Hewlett-Packard Co and Digital Equipment Corp . |
| 13 | Those who spend their lives looking for some practical escape from the ordinary world eventually have to accept the fact that there is no escape except through death or the imagination . |
| 14 | He is not a flamboyant man , nor is he much of a social butterfly except by comparison with the rest of his senior colleagues who tend to keep to their own counsel and lives in Barnes . |
| 15 | ( 1 ) A licensing board shall not refuse to grant a licence under this Part of this Act except under subsection ( 2 ) below or on one or more of the following grounds : ( a ) that the applicant is disqualified by or under this or any other enactment for holding a licence or is in other respects not a fit and proper person to hold a licence under this Part of this Act ; or ( b ) that the premises to which an application relates are not fit and convenient for the purposes of the canteen ; or ( c ) in a case where objection has been made to the situation of the canteen , on the ground specified in the objection ; or ( d ) that the applicant or body providing the canteen has entered into an agreement limiting the sources from which the alcoholic liquor or the mineral waters to be sold in the canteen may be obtained ; but nothing in this subsection shall prevent a licensing board from specifying in the licence granted by it the types of liquor ( including if the board thinks fit types of liquor other than those in respect of which the application for the licence was made ) which may be sold under the licence , and the holder of the licence or his employee or agent shall be guilty of an offence , if he sells alcoholic liquor of a type other than that specified in the licence . |
| 16 | ( 3 ) A licensing board shall not refuse an application for the renewal of a licence under this Part of this Act except under subsection ( 4 ) below or on one or more of the following grounds : ( a ) that the manager is disqualified by or under this or any other enactment for holding a licence or is in other respects not a fit and proper person to be the holder of a licence under this Part of this Act ; or ( b ) that the rules as to the persons entitled to use the canteen have not been observed or that the canteen has in other respects been improperly conducted ; or ( c ) that the manager or the body providing the canteen has entered into an agreement of the kind mentioned in paragraph ( d ) of section 41(1) of this Act . |
| 17 | If possible the client should restrict the introduction of changes in the scope of the works part way through the job except for safety reasons . |
| 18 | ‘ It is absolutely forbidden to have soda except with whisky , ’ Himmler said . |
| 19 | ‘ He says it is absolutely forbidden to have soda except with whisky . |
| 20 | So Rediffusion engineers do not see a future for monomode fibre except for trunk lines . |
| 21 | ‘ The understanding is that the auctioneer should not part with possession of them ( the goods ) to the purchaser except against payment of the price ; or if the auctioneer should part with them without receiving payment , he is responsible to the vendor for the price … . |
| 22 | I mean , I do n't think Alfred had been in the house or the bookshop except for mother 's Wednesday teas since we moved from Trebyan nearly thirty years ago . ’ |
| 23 | With no traffic connections it 's hard to reach any spot in the town except on foot , which is very dangerous . |
| 24 | Finally there is the desire to minimise the risk that an accused will be convicted on the strength of an untrue extra-judicial confession , to which the law gives effect by refusing to admit confessions in evidence except upon proof that they are ‘ voluntary . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ the desire to minimise the risk that an accused will be convicted on the strength of an untrue extra-judicial confession , to which the law gives effect by refusing to admit confessions in evidence except upon proof that they are ‘ voluntary . ’ |
| 26 | You can regard Figure 2 , therefore , as a picture of seven related organisms , identical to each other except with respect to Gene 9 . |
| 27 | By emphasising the ‘ primacy of action ’ what these theologians are really saying is that we do not know — indeed we can not obtain knowledge except through praxis . |
| 28 | They are saying in fact that there is no truth outside or beyond the concrete historical events in which men are involved as agents [ and ] there is therefore no knowledge except in action itself , in the process of transforming the world through participating in history . |
| 29 | Caecilians are rarely seen for they seldom come to the surface except at night and even if they are accidentally dug up , they may well be mistaken for brightly coloured earthworms . |
| 30 | The main restoration of the Norman stone-built church was done in 1893 and remains much the same to this day except for modernisation of lighting and heating , addition of carpets , kneelers etc . |