Example sentences of "with the exception " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is one of the great roles for a black actor ( not that black actors in these days are not eligible to play practically any character in Shakespeare , with the exception of Desdemona ! ) . |
| 2 | With the exception of a small group of public schools , there is the apparently simple distinction between state schools and Roman catholic schools which occurs in Britain . |
| 3 | At least so Great-Grandmother declared , with the exception of the Jews . |
| 4 | Her friends , with the exception of Engels , loathed him . |
| 5 | With the exception of the Newcastle service which was withdrawn , all East Coast Anglo-Scottish overnight services were transferred to the West Coast route from May 1988 , making substantial economies . |
| 6 | Mark Saunders ( BBC Radio ) in a personal review of design requirements for RDS car radios points out that one of the problems that RDS poses for both broadcaster and receiver manufacturer is that , with the exception of obvious features such as the display of the programme service name , an RDS receiver is not apparently different in performance , or looks , when observed in the static environment of the dealer 's showroom . |
| 7 | Microphones may be no real answer , but with the exception of Louis Hagen-William 's Porgy and Daniel Washington 's Crown none of the voices had adequate carrying power without them . |
| 8 | Mr Chan , now the government 's Secretary for Trade and Industry , has been a civil servant since 1964 — almost all his working life , with the exception of a two-year excursion as executive director and general manager of a local finance company in 1978-80 . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , most of his work from this period — with the exception of two portraits of Anna May Wong and Gertrude Lawrence — was lost in the Second World War , and is only traceable in the prestigious pages of The Studio 's Photography Year Book of 1935 . |
| 10 | With the exception of three years in the mid-Fifties , Rowicki continued as its artistic director and principal conductor until 1977 . |
| 11 | With the exception of Hitchcock , whom they worshipped , they had little time for accepted and acclaimed directors , finding more value in the more commercial movies of , for instance , Howard Hawks and Raoul Walsh . |
| 12 | With the exception of Paul Nilon 's delightfully zany Count Belfiore , the principal roles were in some danger of being upstaged by the slightly lesser ones ( Nilon is not to blame if it remains incredible that any woman , let alone two , should fall in love with such a bizarre creature ) . |
| 13 | By June , the whole of northern Somalia was in their hands , with the exception of Hargeisa , the regional capital , and four garrison towns . |
| 14 | The Dutch horticultural business is resisting proposals for snowdrops to be listed on CITES Appendix II , which would bring greater regulation and monitoring of the trade , a move backed by the plants committee with the exception of Mr van Vliet . |
| 15 | Saatchi , the most spectacular collector of recent times and probably the most active collector in British history ( with the exception of King Charles I ) , had bought their work in greater bulk and more intelligently than any other individual or institution . |
| 16 | There are the more restricted duties of juvenile liaison , which deals with young offenders and their families , and the general community relations work amongst juveniles and community groups connected with the young , such as schools and youth clubs ( with the exception of the ubiquitous Christmas party for old folks ) . |
| 17 | With the exception of Radio Luxembourg 's popular entertainment programmes , few British people ever listened to foreign broadcasts . |
| 18 | Indeed , with the exception of Atlanta 's Cable News Network , seen by a very small audience in Britain , even the introduction of new television technology has so far only extended the reach ( if not the profitability ) of Britain 's existing press barons . |
| 19 | In the Criterion generally , after 1927 when he sent Frederic Manning the latest works of Frazer , Eliot kept anthropology away from creative writers , with the exception of Charles Madge , who was a trained sociologist . |
| 20 | All airfields in the country ( with the exception of small private aerodromes ) would be nationalized , and the government would continue with the development of new aircraft as recommended by the Brabazon Committee . |
| 21 | Ragworm is the principal flounder bait with the exception of May and June when peeler crab will produce . |
| 22 | Gunthorpe with the exception of the first ten pegs which are giving 10 to 15 lb of roach the rest appear devoid of fish , Shelford for fish around Stoke Ferry land end and pleasure anglers getting 30 lb plus nets on stick and maggot . |
| 23 | Very little from Portland rock marks with the exception of Church Ope cove where odd cod and coalfish landed . |
| 24 | With the exception of Wollen , the contributors to the Scrapbook and the Boston text convey little concern for the forms of political organisation espoused by the Situationists , and it is perhaps symptomatic of their interest in the SI as a purely aesthetic phenomenon . |
| 25 | With the exception of Levin 's extended analysis of film , neither the products nor any specific agitations of the Situationists and their epigones are subject to critical reassessment . |
| 26 | With the exception of the Cup Final , the independent channels have concentrated on racing and on wrestling for Saturday afternoon entertainment and do not show golf or cricket . |
| 27 | By lunchtime Wexford and Burden had interviewed all those members of the darts club that had been present at Jack Pertwee 's stag party with the exception of Maurice Cullam , but none of them had been able to do more than confirm that Hatton had been aggressive , vain and malicious and that he had been carrying a great deal of money . |
| 28 | Some three-quarters of all the slips in the book had been torn out and with the exception of three , all the stubs had been torn out too . |
| 29 | With the exception of tests in Group 4 , performance rises after waking and falls during the evening . |
| 30 | With the exception of the stained-glass east window , all the original windows of diamond-shaped leaded lights set in wrought-iron frames were removed and replaced with purpose-made steel frames containing simple rectangular side-hung casements . |