Example sentences of "except as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would not visit her own family , except as a formality , and then as briefly as decency permitted . |
| 2 | Robert Owen is not to be understood at all except as a man of his time , of the French Political and the British Industrial Revolutions ; nor fully to be understood except as a man of the first stage of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 3 | Robert Owen is not to be understood at all except as a man of his time , of the French Political and the British Industrial Revolutions ; nor fully to be understood except as a man of the first stage of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 4 | I shall not be gratified for a benefit , although I may return it in the hope of future benefits ; similarly I shall not avenge injuries except as a deterrent to future injuries . |
| 5 | The furniture seemed very grand , and totally impersonal , as if the rooms were never used , except as a passage to somewhere else . |
| 6 | His old friend Barfield ruefully suggested that ‘ at a certain stage in his life he deliberately ceased to take any interest in himself except as a kind of spiritual animus taking stock of his moral faults … |
| 7 | They are not taxed on dividends or except as a recapture of related deductible expenses , such as interest — capital gains derived from foreign affiliates under a participation exemption . |
| 8 | Abrams argues that traditional , local social networks of social care — except as a system of care between kin — are irretrievably lost , but that the new form of ‘ neighbourhoodism ’ is a potential or actual substitute , found in ‘ the formal projects and schemes of the new neighbourhoods ’ . |
| 9 | Moreover , once the King went to the States there was no way he could ever return to Iran except as a parcel from the CIA . |
| 10 | Fire extinguishers for home use are not generally recommended by fire prevention experts , except as a safeguard it you live a long way from your nearest fire station . |
| 11 | She saw nothing good about BST except as a profit booster for the drug companies . |
| 12 | She saw nothing good about BST except as a profit booster for the drug companies . |
| 13 | In Socinus 's theology , therefore , there was no room for Christ except as a voice proclaiming salvation . |
| 14 | The communication of such a word implies the communication of the technique of grafting and can not be explained except as a Massaliote loan-word . |
| 15 | The Origin of the Family , Private Property and the State , 1884 Formen is the most detailed discussion of pre-capitalist society in Marx 's mature work and it really can not be understood except as a part of the background for the more fully completed works Marx was either planning or did wrote , especially Capital . |
| 16 | Animals , except as a part of husbandry or the meat market , have no history . |
| 17 | The phrase quoted is hardly attested elsewhere except as a fourth-century and hellenistic Asia Minor formula , used by the cities under the Persian and Seleucid kings and satraps . |
| 18 | Although she no longer performs , except as a lecturer ( she is professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in North Carolina ) , she still likes to sing , ‘ When I 've had a couple of glasses ! ’ |
| 19 | How was that to be interpreted , except as a verification of what Gentle 's senses had glimpsed in New York ? |
| 20 | The context of this calm acquiescence is a rise in what I will call semi-literacy , which relies on the visual image and hardly at all on the printed word except as a medium of advertising , and genuinely can not see what the problem is . |
| 21 | Money acts as pure directed purpose , since there is no other reason for its existence except as a medium through which ends may be accomplished . |
| 22 | Outside the café the night sky was filled with the pale light of a ripening moon , invisible from here except as a shimmer on the quiet ocean . |
| 23 | Until the death of her sister , the Duchess of Alba , in 1860 , Eugénie would herself occasionally waltz with her husband at these ‘ Mondays ’ , but from 1860 onwards she rarely danced in public except as a duty . |
| 24 | One might say with little exaggeration that in this view the progress of science made philosophy redundant , except as a sort of intellectual laboratory assistant to the scientist . |
| 25 | Except as a Copt , that is . |
| 26 | Each entity , or group , is uniquely defined and has no relationship to any other in the file ( except as a consequence of file order ) . |
| 27 | As explained earlier , it is therefore important to avoid the use of independent overflow areas except as a safety precaution ; the one exception to this is when updates are grouped in a few areas . |
| 28 | We ca n't really get a feel for the man at the moment , except as a personality , and that is coming across through the media as Terry points out , various aspects of his personality . |
| 29 | Can , for example , consciousness avoid being somehow enriched by a pervasive quality , which could not possibly have occurred except as a quality of just such a state of consciousness , when it becomes consciousness of a beautiful object , instead of consciousness of something else , or ‘ mere consciousness ’ ? |
| 30 | In small birds it can hardly be rendered except as a blur of wings ; we can sometimes see their wingspread clearly when they threaten each other or quarrel at bird tables . |