Example sentences of "[noun sg] except [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His body bore no sign of violence except for a weal around his neck . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Our cooker is about 35 years old , but is still in excellent condition except for the sealing ring . |
| 4 | I have explained why it is difficult to use laboratory experiments and controlled trials in social research except in the cases of narrowly focused psychological studies . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , yes , the Wheel was ready for the ceremony except for the foliage ; we do that on the day of the event so that it is fresh ; laurel and yew . |
| 6 | There were problems about being the carrier of bills , final demands , and offensive advertising material , but as far as Caro knew Bryony overcame her scruples sufficiently to deliver all mail except for a succession of very obvious plain brown envelopes , which were frequently sent to one particular address on her route . |
| 7 | Secondly , most schools at present do not expect the student to spend very much of his school time in individual study except at the whim or discretion of the teacher , and the only facilities for such study are the school library ( when available ) and , for the older students in the sixth form , sometimes a sixth-form study room . |
| 8 | Calcium chloride , formerly widely administered during cardiac arrest , is likewise no longer regarded as a first-line agent except in the treatment of hyperkalaemia , hypocalcaemia , or calcium channel blocker toxicity . |
| 9 | Certainly he did not regard large-scale state intervention as having any effect except in the very long term , since the causal conditions are located ultimately in cultural attitudes , not in the factors on which state intervention operates . |
| 10 | Eighteenth-century trumpet parts were written very high because of the impossibility of obtaining scale-wise passages on the natural instrument except amongst the very high harmonics of the series . |
| 11 | Further , he suggested that the principle of the exemption of the civilian population from being an intentional object of warfare had been so whittled down during the Second World War and in post-1945 treaties as to cease to offer reliable guidance except in the most unambiguous circumstances . |
| 12 | Hall and Honey ( 1989a ) report a further study ( experiment 3 ) in which the procedures were exactly the same as those used in their appetitive conditioning experiment except for the use of shock as the reinforcer and conditioned suppression as the measure of behaviour . |
| 13 | Twenty minutes later the Sergeant was showing me my accommodation for the night : a bare cell except for a wooden bunk in one corner and two blankets . |
| 14 | Dot was n't allowed into Mrs Parvis 's kitchen except at the regulation meal-times and she was n't sure about how food was prepared , but she was pretty certain that when Mrs Parvis cooked what was called a nice egg-dish , it was made from an orange coloured powder spooned up from a deep cylindrical tin . |
| 15 | It was very quiet in the kitchen except for the clock in the corner that ticked so loudly that it sounded as if it would burst out of its case . |
| 16 | This means that the added contradicting note must be a major or minor 2nd ( or 7th or 9th ) distant from either existing note : To form four-part harmony we now add a lower part which again contradicts an upper part except in the fifth chord . |
| 17 | Dealings here are for seven day rolling settlement except in the case of new issues . |
| 18 | It follows from this analysis that the focusing hypersurface is a curvature singularity except in the special case in which one of the Kasner exponents is zero . |
| 19 | Never stash money in the house — either in little tins , jars or under the mattress except for a small amount for use in emergencies . |
| 20 | Working with Thirkell , Pilger had drawn up sample pages of a new design , using gobbledegook text except for the headlines . |
| 21 | There is no straightforward coherence in this literature except in the use of the phrase ‘ sociology of knowledge ’ and in the reference to Mannheim 's work as a formative influence . |
| 22 | Money acts as pure directed purpose , since there is no other reason for its existence except as a medium through which ends may be accomplished . |
| 23 | The corollary is that the organisation has no existence except through the will of its members ; member States can amend the treaty creating an organisation and even terminate its existence . |
| 24 | This section prohibits the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor in licensed premises and in the premises of registered clubs , or the consumption in , or the taking away from such premises of alcoholic liquor except during the permitted hours . |
| 25 | But accountability and care no more have to be the absolute precondition , the ever-present animating ethic , of sexual relations , homosexual or otherwise , than they do of any other kind except in the obvious sense that care of some kind is the precondition of almost any shared social activity . |
| 26 | If , as it may be , such a system would cost more to operate than grant payments do , it would be of little advantage except in the important psychological sense that it would be a greater personal investment by the farmer over a longer time period . |
| 27 | divulge their own password except with the written approval of the Director following their expressed request ; |
| 28 | Whatever had been achieved by the 1976 Act , it had made little impact on this case except for the removal of her name from the media . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Consequently , it is suggested that land cultivation grants in the LFA remain withdrawn and that drainage grants are reduced to 30% under both AHDS and AHGS schemes in the LFA except in the proposed Marginal Zone ( the least handicapped Article 3(4) LFA land ) where it is recommended that they revert to the level obtaining outside the LFA ( 22 ½%),; reflecting the increased financial benefit likely to accrue from drainage schemes on such lower elevation , least handicapped land . |