Example sentences of "except the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keener has looked after all Nigel Kennedy 's recordings except the first ( the Elgar Sonata for Chandos ) including the recent Brahms Violin Concerto for EMI . |
| 2 | FROM THE treasury of BBC moving pictures comes a further production of classic action , all set on English fields , all in colour except the first sequence ( the Oval Test of 1968 ) , all pleasant , positive viewing . |
| 3 | Brunel would have nothing steeper than 1 in 660 for the first eighty-five miles out of Paddington ; Robert Stephenson planned the London and Birmingham Railway with no gradient steeper than 1 in 330 ( except the first rise from Euston to Camden ) ; and Locke nothing steeper than 1 in 250 on the difficult London and Southampton line . |
| 4 | Two years later , in his essay on Rabelais , the list of enemies has altered — all except the first item : ‘ Railways , factories , chemists and mathematicians . ’ |
| 5 | Except the first two or three years I was here . |
| 6 | A millionaire paying an 83 per cent tax rate on all taxable income except the first 54 000 1978–79 was paying only 40 per cent per cent in 1990 91 . |
| 7 | There were players now on every hole except the first two . |
| 8 | Tension had given her a dull , thumping headache so that she absorbed nothing except the first entry on the list . |
| 9 | In the former case When m = 0 , all integrals on the right-hand side except the first are zero and therefore This result just confirms , of course , that the steady component is the time average of the signal . |
| 10 | Except the sixth form , they can |
| 11 | If you are typing in text with short lines , eg an address , use New line ( Shift+Enter ) at the end of each line except the last , when you should tap Enter . |
| 12 | Change takes place because of social conflict and in each stage except the last , conflict is the result of the exploitation of the majority by the minority based on the ownership of property and the consequent manipulation of culture . |
| 13 | They say the British lose every battle they ever fight , except the last one . ’ |
| 14 | This was a formidable programme for a king whose father had been defeated and captured by the English only eight years earlier , and who had agreed to a treaty which conceded a Greater Aquitaine in full sovereignty to Edward III ; but in the sixteen years of his reign Charles achieved each one of these objects except the last , and even though he did not attack and destroy England , French and Castilian naval raids along the south coast induced a sense of panic and defensiveness unknown in England since the very earliest months of the war . |
| 15 | Also p divides all the terms unc except the last [ since unc and |
| 16 | In the Collembola and Diplura all the antennal segments except the last contain intrinsic muscles , the antenna grows postembryonically by division of the terminal segment and Johnston 's organ ( p. 129 ) is absent . |
| 17 | In the Collembola and Diplura similar muscles also occur in all other segments except the last , but in the Thysanura and Pterygota the flagellar segments are devoid of muscles . |
| 18 | After one search , all have nearly unchanged weights except the last rule , R3 . |
| 19 | As is fairly obvious , an increase in τ or a decrease in k leads to an increase in the optimal output and an increase in the optimal reservation price in all periods except the last . |
| 20 | As already noted , the predictions made by the optimality theory are straightforward : an increase in σ or a decrease in k leads to an increase in optimal output in all periods except the last . |
| 21 | All of these variables except the last two , I contend , are a positive monotonic function of the total budget of the bureau . |
| 22 | In this calendar the year consisted of twelve months , each of thirty days except the eighth month , which comprised thirty-five days . |