Example sentences of "except to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , most agencies refused us access , except to a minority of birth parents whose children were freed for adoption , often against their wishes . |
| 2 | Travelling the trail , as in numberless journey Westerns from Stagecoach to Red River , is still the game , but there 's nowhere to go now except to a pointless death . |
| 3 | HE was 25 and going nowhere except to a good time . |
| 4 | These specifically make it clear that the clinic may not disclose that someone has had the test , or its result , without that person 's consent , except to a doctor , or a doctor 's assistant ( and even then only in connection with , and for the purpose of the treatment or prevention of spread of HIV infection ) . |
| 5 | But such was the disappointment on his face that I was compelled to agree that we would enjoy such a picnic , which indeed is a delicious meal in other circumstances — at Henley during summer , or at Glyndebourne on a good afternoon — but in the middle of the South African veld , on our way to Rhodesia , its incongruity would have occurred to anyone except to a British diplomat . |
| 6 | For only a moment , hardly discernable , except to a trained eye , the old Dimitri Volkov had shown himself . |
| 7 | She dreaded being called a learned lady : her mother said that ‘ she was a living library ; but locked up , except to a chosen few . ’ |
| 8 | To prevent this , section 245 of the Insolvency Act 1986 provides that a floating charge created in favour of an unconnected person within 12 months of the commencement of the winding-up or the making of an administration order shall be invalid ( except to a prescribed extent ) unless it is proved that the company was solvent immediately after the creation of the charge . |
| 9 | The intention is that an LEA will not be able to favour particular schools , or to use the granting and withholding of funds as a means of enforcing policies , or of promoting some educational practices and discouraging others ( except to a marginal extent with some limited discretionary funds that can be kept outside the aggregated budget ) . |
| 10 | Also coupled with the censure of excommunication was the imposing of an interdict , a sentence that forbade the celebration of the sacraments except to a limited number of religious communities . |
| 11 | She said , ‘ If you have a secret you do n't want the world to know you must never tell it except to an enemy . |
| 12 | The Times gave prominence to cricket but thought the FA Cup Final in 1914 ‘ of comparatively little interest except to the Lancashire working classes ’ ( the game was between Liverpool and Burnley ) . |
| 13 | The Federal Reserve is struggling to allay fears of a ‘ credit crunch ’ — when banks are reluctant to lend except to the most creditworthy borrowers . |
| 14 | The motel-supermarket-hamburger civilization has now been superimposed on what was left of nineteenth-century towns , and has further worn down the differences between one region and the next , but it is doubtful whether the mass mind or the mass man has yet come to pass , except to the extent that people always conform to a prevailing style while it lasts . |
| 15 | Unlike many of the guerrilla leaders who are unknown except to the intrepid few who visit their frontline hideouts , Arkan rebels are in the public limelight like the best of Hollywood 's gangsters . |
| 16 | The fact is that the lift worked for ten years with very little maintenance and little stoppage for repairs , except to the track — and even the track could evidently have been put to permanent rights had the study and expenditure been justified . |
| 17 | FOR many years the House of Commons regarded itself as a closed society whose proceedings were private except to the extent that the House itself decided to report them . |
| 18 | There was no way you could put it in except to the C-in-C . |
| 19 | The detainee making a request ‘ must be permitted to consult a solicitor as soon as is practicable except to the extent that delay is permitted by this section ’ . |
| 20 | All the information available shows that the Brent flocks in these two harbours remain largely separate , except to the north of Hayling Island , and counts of the entire Chichester/Langstone complex since 1972/73 have shown the peak populations to reach 10,000 to 12,000 birds . |
| 21 | These are not the kind of facts which can be found in the history books ; they are small matters which would be of no real importance except to the people concerned . |
| 22 | The evident plagiarism which underlay her ‘ prodigious ’ contributions to polymer science was too obvious to require special demonstration except to the inquiring scientific minds of the committee of the Royal Society of Chemistry which elected Elena Ceauşescu to its membership . |
| 23 | 12.1 Except to the extent that liability may by statute not lawfully be excluded in an Agreement of this nature and between the respective Parties hereto , any statement , condition or warranty , expressed or implied , statutory or otherwise , as to the quality , marketability , suitability or fitness for any particular purpose of the Licensed Software is hereby excluded and shall not be liable to or to any other persons for loss or damage , whether direct or consequential , arising directly or indirectly from the use of the Licensed Software or any modification or enhancement thereof and any documentation , manual or training relating thereto . |
| 24 | 6.1 As respects all information as is directly or indirectly communicated to it by another Party ( hereinafter called the supplying Party ) under the terms of this Agreement or otherwise in connection with the Project ( including technical information or otherwise relating in any manner to the business or affairs of such other Party ) the recipient Party hereby undertakes to the supplying Party that it will until five years after Completion or abandonment of the Project treat the same as ( and use all reasonable endeavours to procure that the same be kept ) confidential and will not disclose the same to any other person without prior written consent of such other Party in each case except to the extent that it is reasonably necessary in or for the purposes of the exercise of the rights and licences granted to it pursuant to this Agreement . |
| 25 | There seemed nowhere to take discussions of these dilemmas except to the conferences ' lesbian workshops , where they took up almost all the time . |
| 26 | The story , in brief , is that in colonial times the British banks would not lend to Sri Lankans , except to the very wealthy or very influential . |
| 27 | One of the beefs I have about accommodation for elderly people is the fact that by , that the purpose built , very excellent , bungalows and flats for elderly citizens are restricted to one bedroom which , to which but is by government decree to keep the cost down , but it does seem to me to be very heartless because elderly people 's children are unable to come and stay with them except to the great deal of discomfort and perhaps as society grows a little more considerate for the fact that the percentage of elderly people will get even greater as the years go on , then they should make allowance and provide them for the facilities to enable them to be visited by their children and grandchildren . |
| 28 | Many of the innumerable papers written in response to Gettier give the impression that responding to Gettier is a kind of private philosophical game , which is of no interest except to the players . |
| 29 | Accordingly , if the applicant is to succeed he must show that the context requires a qualification on the following lines to be implied into section 2(2) : ‘ Provided that nothing in this Act shall require the person under investigation to furnish any information with respect to any suspected offence in relation to which he has been charged , except to the extent permitted by paragraph 16.5 of Code of Practice C issued under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 , or any modification or re-enactment thereof . ’ |
| 30 | The contravener could not be made liable under section 6(2) except to the extent of the money or property he had himself received from the investor . |