Example sentences of "except as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Until a few weeks ago she had been scarcely aware of him except as a friendly and familiar face in class ; but now , now she was very much aware of him — and he was very definitely aware of her ; much to Erika 's embarrassment sitting with her and Rosa at lunch , at the next desk in class , asking her out to the cinema and even , to Erika 's amazement and , she suspected , his own , offering to help Paul with his homework — in the Nordern home , that is — an offer declined both by Erika and Paul , although Paul did corner Fritz in school and suggest to him that if he actually did the homework then he , Paul , would further his , Fritz 's , courtship of Erika ; Paul being shrewd enough to guess the motive behind Fritz 's philanthropic gesture even though the square on the hypotenuse might remain a mystery to him . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | In Socinus 's theology , therefore , there was no room for Christ except as a voice proclaiming salvation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | do not personally progress chase except as a final resort . |
| 9 | The soldiers had orders not to shoot except as a last resort to save human life . |
| 10 | Toads are poisonous , too , but like the cobra they prefer not to use their poison except as a last resort , although for a different reason — their poison glands only secrete their lethal dose when the toad is bitten hard by an attacker , and for the toad this is leaving matters far too late , with serious injury a strong possibility . |
| 11 | It is the spiritual end for which the Commonwealth exists , and material order is nothing except as a means to it . ’ |
| 12 | We now know that opinion polls are almost meaningless except as a rough guide to the sort of views that people believe they ought to express in public . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | She also pointed out , quite rightly , that exhibitions can mislead the public in that it is seldom , if ever mentioned , that the events have no real relevance , except as a means of entertainment and an opportunity for players to earn more money in a fairly relaxed mood . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Can you back that up — except as a theory ? ’ |
| 20 | How was that to be interpreted , except as a verification of what Gentle 's senses had glimpsed in New York ? |
| 21 | 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 ’ ? |
| 22 | Animals , except as a part of husbandry or the meat market , have no history . |
| 23 | The men who created the new unionism and , in so doing , abandoned Industrial Co-operation ( except as a minor and incidental means to trade unionism 's ends of improving conditions of employment ) were not wrong in their time because , in short , history was not yet ready for Industrial Co-operation . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She would not visit her own family , except as a formality , and then as briefly as decency permitted . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Even within the brief of this show which seeks to explode middle-class self-complacency and achieve a healthy honesty , she could n't depict the female figure as whole or intact , except as a limp doll , the life drained out of her ( Kiki Smith 's ‘ Untitled : Hanging Woman ’ ) without risking the distortion of the image 's meaning by entrenched male viewpoints , let alone explore the nature of the weirdness of mundane middle-class ‘ feminine ’ deviance . |
| 30 | Each entity , or group , is uniquely defined and has no relationship to any other in the file ( except as a consequence of file order ) . |