Example sentences of "except as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She realized she had never seen the servants before except as part of the backdrop of Summer Lodge , now she saw that they were part of her life , real people with loves and loyalties especially to her and it made her feel suddenly humble . |
| 2 | An answer to these questions , if a satisfactory answer is to be possible at all , can not be given except as part of a theory of reality , and my purpose in the following pages will be to sketch out the fundamentals of just such a theory . |
| 3 | He did not know why he asked the question , except as part of a ritual that reassured him Blanche had not changed . |
| 4 | Solicitors are prohibited from offering certain services , except as part of a solicitor 's practice or an MNP . |
| 5 | ‘ Deus venerunt gentes ’ is long a good ten minutes if you sing all four sections ; the ranges of its five-part scoring lie less comfortably for modern choirs , and its vocal lines are technically demanding ; the harrowing text makes it an unlikely choice for church use ; the piece has never been published except as part of a library edition ; it takes stamina and capable direction to make a convincing interpretation out of it ; and since it hardly ever gets a hearing , only the adventurous know of its existence . |
| 6 | There was scepticism of the value of information-broking services , except as document delivery operations , principally because the planners usually preferred raw to refined data . |
| 7 | They suffer from the drawback that warping can leave open gaps in the cladding ( waney-edged boards are particularly prone to this because of the way they are sawn ) , and so they tend to be used more on out-buildings than on house exteriors , except as feature panels . |
| 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 | But nowhere , not even in the potentially ‘ educational ’ rides and attractions based at The Land or The Universe Of Energy pavilions , is there any reference to the world 's problems nor , except as fantasy , to any world at all outside a US focus . |
| 10 | Such alliances tend to be as fleeting as the chance encounters and re-encounters of fictional characters in Anthony Powell 's A Dance to the Music of Time ( 1951–75 ) ; and the conversation of young friends , as potent in all likelihood as any literary influence there is , is largely beyond the reach of the historian , even the contemporary historian , except as guesswork . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Further , no married woman could make a will without her husband 's consent , nor ( with trifling exceptions ) make any contract , except as agent either for her husband or for some other person : it would have been absurd to let her contract when she had no free property out of which she could pay . |