Example sentences of "except as a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can confirm , however , that the company would not have won this order except as a private sector yard which will have to incur the costs if it makes losses . |
| 2 | Until Margaret 's frantic visit four days earlier she 'd resolved to apply herself assiduously to her job in an attempt to exorcise Marcus Pritchard from her memory entirely , and Denmark had meant nothing to her except as a dark finger of land on a map pointing upwards into the North Sea . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | do not personally progress chase except as a final resort . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The record industry 's response to this situation was not particularly systematic but by now some trends are obvious : the average age of the pop market ( and especially the pop single-buying market ) is younger than it was ; record companies devote more attention to building big mainstream stars than to servicing a variety of musical tastes ; stars are now conceived and sold as multi-media performers ; there has been a steady decline in the significance of live music making except as a promotional device . |
| 7 | The soldiers had orders not to shoot except as a last resort to save human life . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The HSE 's propensity ( or more realistically reluctance ) to prosecute , except as a last resort or where there is no alternative , is well-known and is touched on by Phil James in ‘ Reforming British Health and Safety Law : a framework for discussion ’ ( 1992 ) 21 Industrial Law Journal 83–105 , together with the related area of penalties . |