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 . |