Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few exceptions " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the few exceptions is Marks & Spencer . |
| 2 | In many Latin American countries teachers lack the freedom to devise and organise their own teaching plans , Peru being one of the few exceptions ( and even here there is a general curriculum laid down by the ministry ) . |
| 3 | Carter brought her little enough , and this was one of the few exceptions . |
| 4 | Most concentrated on the popular view of Best , with Smash Hits one of the few exceptions , as they churlishly explained to their readers : ‘ He was a former footballing hero who used to get raddled a lot . ’ |
| 5 | One of the few exceptions is a small factory , mainly employing women , which produces electronic components . |
| 6 | The size of the taps throughout the house is one of the few exceptions to scale , as an exact one twelfth in the plumbing system would have been too small for water to run through the pipes . |
| 7 | One of the few exceptions to this was Stonehenge , which always seems to have been regarded as extremely old and to have excited theories about how the lintels were raised : one early theory was that the magician Merlin placed the stones . |
| 8 | One of the few exceptions is the beaver . |
| 9 | One of the few exceptions was a full-page abstract sketch in felt tip ; it was labelled ‘ Cyril 's Mind ( Rear View ) ’ . |
| 10 | Most of the world 's remaining food genes are in the Third World which is where most food species come from — though the apple is actually one of the few exceptions , having originated in northern Eurasia . |
| 11 | One of the few exceptions has been the toothpaste market in Europe and the United States . |
| 12 | A whole kingdom , a whole community and all Christian people , save for a few exceptions , might be put under such a sentence . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Well … with a few exceptions . ’ |
| 17 | On board , crews have become noticeably more customer-friendly ; with a few exceptions , passengers ' needs and wishes are now paramount . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | With a few exceptions , anyone who wishes to be hypnotized can be — while anyone who does not wish it can not . |