Example sentences of "except that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great advertisement , you might think , for the use of steroids — except that at that time she did n't use them . |
| 2 | My recollection of what happened then is hazy , except that at some stage I went into spasm , with the two of us locked tight in a tangle of arms and legs . |
| 3 | The road ran straight ahead of us until it disappeared in the mist , except that at the man 's feet it was gone and there was a gap some fifty metres or so wide through which a brown torrent ran so high and in such furious waves that it almost lipped the broken macadam where the road had been swept away . |
| 4 | In 1976 , Australia , Canada , Fiji , New Zealand , Sri Lanka and Trinidad and Tobago expressed themselves , in response to a Questionnaire circulated by the Commonwealth Secretariat , as parties to the Conventions listed in the Table except that with Israel . |
| 5 | In this respect he was no different from greater Prime Ministers , Gladstone before him and Churchill after him , upon whom senility began to descend while they were still in office , except that with him it came when he was ten years or more younger . |
| 6 | Back came the ‘ face furniture ’ which required no solutions except that of remembering to wear them . |
| 7 | All these prevalence rates were strikingly increased when compared to matched non-diabetic controls except that of hypercholesterolaemia in males . |
| 8 | His eyes were closed as he perceived pleasure from all of his senses , except that of sight . |
| 9 | This is the story of one man who , at 80 , still works a 50-hour week despite having retired from all Samaritan offices except that of Founder , and who still cares ‘ very passionately about human suffering , and would like to continue to do something to alleviate it , on however modest a scale ’ . |
| 10 | Outsole patterns have multiplied without much user benefit , except that of weight reduction . |
| 11 | He is independent of all authority except that of his own choosing . |
| 12 | At the most basic level there is the rejection of any purpose in the pattern of human activities , except that of the instinct for survival itself , and the acceptance of a theory of cultural evolution which explains the origin of human values . |
| 13 | However , it would be fair to say that they do not have a long-term answer to the question : ‘ What is the appropriate level of funding ? ’ , except that of adding on an amount , based on the estimated shortfall , to existing expenditure . |
| 14 | To leave self behind means to put oneself last in all things ; to have no care about one 's life , position or esteem ; and to have no desire for rights or privileges except that of belonging to God . |
| 15 | That is , they do this in every case except that of an exorcism ritual where the point is to make a deliberate display of violence and aggression , in the sense of ‘ intentionally causing suffering to another being ’ , to frighten the predatory spirits . |
| 16 | Here again was confirmation for Beaton that Vidor was ‘ America 's bravest director ’ , very much ‘ a student of the Russian and French schools ’ , but again his great fear was that the film would be a ‘ remarkable achievement ’ from every standpoint ‘ except that of the box office ’ . |
| 17 | Specifically , Sartre creates a single history by excluding all histories except that of the West ; his history as totalization can therefore only work through a determined ethnocentricity . |
| 18 | Nevertheless there was one event of this year which seemed to lift such worries front him , and to help cure all his infirmities except that of age . |
| 19 | A currency that started inflating strongly would rapidly be abandoned for all purposes , except that of paying tax to the government printing it . |
| 20 | In answer to these inquiries the Financial Secretary gave similar answers in relation to each class namely ( 1 ) that in all the cases ( except that of the teachers ' concessionary education ) that the benefits would be taxed on the same basis as under the existing law and ( 2 ) that in all cases the amount of the charge would be nil , small or , in the case of the schoolteachers , ‘ very small indeed . ’ |
| 21 | The commission had been correctly paid on all the relevant purchases except that of Framwells — the chain of tobacconist shops — which was easily the biggest deal Mike had handled . |
| 22 | At the beginning of the century , all journals except that of the Linnean Society were general journals , publishing material in all ( or most ) of the sciences-even the Linnean Society included animals , vegetables and minerals within its purview . |
| 23 | Back came the ‘ face-furniture ’ which required no solutions except that of remembering to wear them . |
| 24 | A thing to be forgotten , and certainly not something that had any power in the present except that of a distant unhappy memory . |
| 25 | In an election dominated by the unification issue , it was notable that combined share of the vote won by the CDU and its Bavarian sister-party , the Christian Social Union ( CSU ) , was only 43.8 per cent , a smaller percentage than in any of the West German general elections except that of 1949 . |
| 26 | If they should chance to be black , brown or yellow , of any cultural tradition save that of the West and dominated by any other ideological system except that of the student 's own parents they will seldom if ever protest , no matter how flagrant the injustice , how onerous the oppression , how unprincipled the exploitation and how ever much they offend against the protesters ' vociferously expressed and allegedly ‘ sincere ’ ideals . |
| 27 | Significantly , on the following day at Smithfield , after the deaths of Sudbury and Hales , there seem to have been no further demands concerning ‘ traitors ’ , but further ones about social and legal status , that there should be no lordship apart from the King 's , that the Church should be disendowed and ( cryptically ) that there should be no law except that of Winchester ( 11 , pp.161–5 ) . |
| 28 | He spent only a few hours in prison ; but when he was released the heads of all the foreign missions in London ( except that of Sweden , which was then at war with Russia ) accompanied him to his house in a demonstration of solidarity and next morning visited him to promise their support . |
| 29 | The calculation of the new parent function is done as in Section 8.1 , except that for case ( b ) , we reverse the roles of p and q . |
| 30 | A 100% tax rate is assumed to discourage all output , except that for subsistence , again yielding zero tax revenue . |