Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few exceptions " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | ‘ With a few exceptions , banks and building societies are still providing a service of monumental incompetence . ’ |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | With a few exceptions , both pierceable and self-sealing cartridges from different manufacturers follow agreed standards , leading to worldwide interchangeability . |
| 37 | With a few exceptions , it was not until the 1960s that large companies in Britain began to close the gap . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 ) . |
| 42 | With a few exceptions labourers and servants in Rutland were men whose assessments were below £2 , which in turn were virtually identical with subsidy assessments based on wages . |
| 43 | With a few exceptions , sixteenth-century towns were in any case little more than glorified military and administrative headquarters , supplied by a small population of artisans and petty traders . |
| 44 | Unions in Japan are , with a few exceptions , organized separately by enterprise or where a company has several plants through a federation of plant branches . |
| 45 | Composers are notoriously fickle when it comes to performing their own music , but with a few exceptions ( the first part of the Diptyque being the most obvious , where the innumerable pauses , rallentandos and general changes of speed , not to mention more than a few smudges and slips , have no basis in the printed score ) Messiaen not only fulfils his own written requirements , but does so with utter conviction and persuasiveness . |
| 46 | But it has been long established ( Habakkuk 1953 , McKeown and Brown 1955 ) that medical knowledge of the time could not cure any important cause of death , could prevent only smallpox , and with a few exceptions remained impotent until the present century . |
| 47 | With a few exceptions , they said , most hornbills in captivity are not breeding , and many are given little chance to , living as they do without a mate or a nestbox . |
| 48 | For the next 2000 years the abstract/axiomatic approach was with a few exceptions replaced by a more concrete intuitive approach . |
| 49 | All , with a few exceptions , signified danger and often death … |
| 50 | Democracy in industry , or , more broadly , at the work place , is an idea that has often been discussed , but with a few exceptions ( including Yugoslavia to some extent ) has hardly as yet been embarked on as a serious practice in most societies . |
| 51 | Certainly that is how the press , with a few exceptions , has treated it . |
| 52 | With a few exceptions dictated by compassion , Jane Austen 's visiting list extends no lower than ‘ the smallest habitation which could rank as genteel ’ , while Richardson 's , misfortune apart , is even more exclusive . |
| 53 | With a few exceptions — notably Forbidden Planet ( 1956 ) and possibly This Island Earth ( 1955 ) — the space movies of the 1950s were quite low-tech and cheaply budgeted . |
| 54 | Much also depends upon local employment conditions , for , with a few exceptions , the greatest decline has taken place where there has been the greatest competition for labour , principally in the South East , in the West Midlands and in South Wales . |
| 55 | In the US explicit collusion is , with a few exceptions , per se illegal , and so it is simply necessary in a given case to establish whether or not collusion has existed . |
| 56 | With a few exceptions , links were weak . |
| 57 | ‘ In the depths of my heart I ca n't help being convinced that my dear fellow-men , with a few exceptions , are worthless . ’ |
| 58 | He then pointed out that the financial-management literature concentrated exclusively on stage 4 , and with a few exceptions this is still the situation today . |
| 59 | In order to reduce delay , cost and complexity in the civil justice system , the Civil Justice Review recommended that the county court should be retained as a court separate from the High Court , but that the upper limit of county court jurisdiction should be abolished , that all civil proceedings , with a few exceptions , should be commenced by a document called a writ , which would be issued in either the High Court or a county court , and that there should be an improved system of transfer of cases between county court and High Court . |
| 60 | However , the altitude range is only a few kilometres , and therefore with a few exceptions the major condensate on view may be ammonia in all regions . |