Example sentences of "except [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Agassiz discouraged the use of books , except for research work .
2 Be that as it may , it may turn out that the preparedness not to acquiesce in any all-Ireland solution is decidedly stronger than most commentators until recently were prepared to accept , except for the work of Bew , Gibbon , and Patterson .
3 For him , wrote Harsnet , there is only the endless metamorphosis of narrative , no end except for the non-end of his death .
4 Except for the late 19th century saloon bars , Victorian pubs were , in contrast to modern ‘ Victorian-style ’ pubs , normally very plainly furnished and fitted .
5 Except for the more delicate crabs , they had a provincial Sunday lunch quality .
6 Many of the plants can be put in at any time of year , except for the dahlias .
7 On a normal tow , except for very low performance machines , the climbing angle of the towplane and glider is much steeper than the glider 's gliding angle when flying downwind .
8 Every man from nineteen to twenty-three is liable , except for married men with two or more children , and sailors , and apprentices — whoever heard of apprentices as old as that ? ’ he jeered , and the crowd jeered with him .
9 ‘ And except for ministers , of course — we can not do without them ; or schoolmasters — the Lord Lieutenants will need them to draw up more lists and sign away more lives when the six thousand have bled and died in France , or Spain , or India . ’
10 How to exact this ‘ favour ’ , that was what had never been thrashed out ( except for some loose talk of getting weapons from castle armouries ) .
11 Except for the burial at sea of a woman travelling to meet her husband , it was a dull voyage .
12 Seems reasonable , except for the fact that he has n't cut the mortises for the mullions .
13 It is an excellent book , as I took care to point out , except for my few niggles .
14 Once the sailor has ‘ climbed the rigging ’ , which is usually an energetic process , he ‘ looks out ’ , remaining stationary except for a slight sway as the boat sails out of harbour .
15 In the heat of the midday sun we reached Ingleborough 's companion top of Simon Fell , deserted except for a few inquisitive Swaledale sheep .
16 Except for the few slats supporting the tank , all the shelves in the cupboard can be removed in a moment , making access really easy .
17 Most look similar except for the frame material ; choose this to match your windows if possible .
18 My people drove home without stopping , except for petrol — all 900 miles .
19 Now , this may not seem to be a feasible solution , except for the odd application such as electric blanket or underfloor heating where full wave rectified unsmoothed 50 or 60Hz AC will produce heating from a mixture of 81% DC and 19% AC at 100 or 120Hz and above .
20 So in his late anthology , Confucius to Cummings ( New York , 1964 , with Marcella Spann ) , he explicitly preferred George Chapman 's Homer to pope 's , even though he had admitted that Chapman is unreadable , except for a few pages at a time .
21 The question of the relation of Pound 's poem with the book of Propertius 's elegies does not arise , except for the literary historian .
22 So-called , because , except for Pretoria , no one in the world recognises the sovereignty of the Transkei , which is otherwise perceived to be simply a geographical region in the south-eastern corner of South Africa .
23 SUSSEX have created a fund to help their young players find coaching jobs overseas — except for South Africa — during the winter .
24 Father wants tandoori duck , mother something green , the kids go for nachos except for studious Cecil , who wants Raymond Blanc in a package .
25 The tall brick houses would have looked like Victorian mansions , except for the pagoda roofs and the intricate wood lattices in place of glass window panes .
26 The protests , which were overwhelmingly peaceful except for persistent violence by uniformed and plainclothes police , began late on Saturday afternoon , and the ironies were plentiful .
27 Except for Sting and George Michael ( 'wonderful voice , writes great songs ' ) , she has little time for most modern pop .
28 PERHAPS we are the only definable group , except for the landladies , who look forward to conference at all , conference and elections being the only points in the calendar when our lives become primed with meaning .
29 As in the Land-Rover and Range Rover , the Discovery 's body , except for the roof , is made of rust-resistant aluminium alloy .
30 But after a pause he went on to add , ‘ Except for kids , I hate going to post-mortems for kids ’ ( FN 26/5/87 , p. 21 ) .
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