Example sentences of "except the [det] " in BNC.

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1 The instruments were shattered , but the controls and engine were functioning except the latter was spewing coolant vapour .
2 All except the latter unit meant some form of withdrawal from the use of acute admission facilities at either Claybury or Friern .
3 All except the latter were lawyers , mostly flourishing lawyers .
4 Ironically , Paterson 's 10 caps , gained between 1969 and 1972 , include appearances against every International Board country except the All Blacks .
5 By the late 1980s , the ‘ golden dream ’ had lost its appeal to almost everyone in the ‘ Socialist Commonwealth ’ except the few elderly leaders from the generation which had entered the Communist Party at the height of Stalin 's predominance .
6 The incompetence of the king , and the arrogance and greed of the Despensers , had so alienated men from the court that none except the few who profited from the king 's favour would fight for him .
7 Everyone 's position was dubious in some respect : no one had been able to stand aloof from the efforts of Philip and Mary to turn England back to popery , and all except the few convinced Romanists in the village hoped that the days of compulsory religion and inquisitions would now be over .
8 Nothing moved there except the few blackheaded gulls wheeling and crying above the river .
9 When I first when I was first driving in the early 1970's you could park in the quarry car park any time you fancied except the few days before Christmas .
10 It was apparent that there had been money at all periods except the most modem , and taste at some .
11 I ca n't think what to do next , except the same things .
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