Example sentences of "[det] except [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stockbrokers have refused to do this except for established private clients or institutions . |
| 2 | Moving on to the row on paragraph eight , again all three groups are agreed er on this except with one I think exception of a certain group . |
| 3 | Clearly the Apache 150 was unable to achieve this except at light weights and , in 1957 , the model was replaced by an Apache which sported a pair of 160 hp Lycomings . |
| 4 | Most authorities lacked such a committee before this except in a shadow , non-statutory form within the majority party caucus . |
| 5 | Having denied that we may ever legitimately interfere with the liberty of another except on the grounds of self-protection , Mill ( 1910 ) asserts : |
| 6 | Or like when I , if I we say maybe , now I ca n't imagine feeling like that except with horse riding , but I suppose you do , whatever your thing is . |
| 7 | Fortunately , there is little chance of that except in extreme cases . |
| 8 | Though Thomas was greatly revered he had never been well off , and now that he had retired from government advisory jobs he earned nothing much except by writing . |
| 9 | Alain was played as an idiot who hardly danced at all except to full over his own feet . |
| 10 | Well , then , let me put it this way : neither you nor I is happy ; but I may at least continue to be only moderately unhappy in reasonable comfort , while you may abruptly cease to be anything at all except on Social Security if goat 's cheese and sheep 's yoghurt hit a rough patch . |
| 11 | ‘ No , nothing at all , not a mention of Elsie at all except on her birthday . |
| 12 | There is a dispute about which units matter , or even whether units matter at all except as dependent variables . |
| 13 | Robert Owen is not to be understood at all except as a man of his time , of the French Political and the British Industrial Revolutions ; nor fully to be understood except as a man of the first stage of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 14 | On the other hand , if we ignore the ego and its functions in man and concentrate on his instincts as if they could totally account for his behaviour as they do in animals who lack an ego , we should fall into the alternative trap of failing to account for his culture at all except as the outcome of doubtful instinctual behaviour of an altruistic or civilized kind . |
| 15 | Of the twenty non-royal knights who processed into the chapel , all except for the two former Labour prime ministers had been at public schools . |
| 16 | The first group of three do not keep newspapers or magazines in hard copy at all except for the specialist journals which are retained for one year . |
| 17 | No firewood could be chopped up until after the landlord had called so the room was clean and tidy , all except for the odd quarry tile Dad had broken during the wood-chopping . |
| 18 | Of the five different categories of troops all except for allies are covered by the list in this book . |
| 19 | It was announced on March 31 that subsidies were to be lifted from 16 consumer commodities , i.e. all except for semolina , flour , milk and bread . |
| 20 | ‘ Practising egalitarianism ’ involves equal incomes for all except for allowances for differences in need . |
| 21 | Among his close relatives , Gregory numbered bishops of Lyons , Clermont and Langres , and he claimed that all except for five bishops of Tours were related to him . |
| 22 | By limiting itself to cautious probing on the 21st ( all except for the disobedient von Zwehl who had registered the day 's only success ) , it had lost a valuable day . |
| 23 | Before 1987 legislation governing pollution control did n't fully apply to tidal waters , and discharges into the sea and many older discharges to estuaries did n't require consent at all except for substances like mercury . |
| 24 | Expressed in other terms , ‘ the Commonwealth ’ is not a political entity , or indeed an entity at all except in make-believe . |
| 25 | Figure 3.3 shows the recessive pattern : palatalization is hardly present at all except in males over 40 , and the area which has the most recent immigration from the country is the most conservative . |
| 26 | The eating disorders and other forms of addictive disease may not be seen at all except in their extreme forms . |
| 27 | This particular person had found the shock so great that she had not been able to acknowledge it at all except by taking this evading action . |
| 28 | corinder and no more except on occasions with great the bowl never wanted washing , the boys polished , polished them with their spoons till they shone again and when they , when they had to form this operation , which never took very long , the bowl , they would sit staring at the copper with such eager eyes as if they could of devoured a of which it was composed . |
| 29 | In the dark he cut across the grass by the tractor-shed , then back behind a row of buildings where there was an old cow-byre that they did n't use any more except for storing stuff . |
| 30 | Irene still comes to the apartment but we never see her any more except by accident . |