Example sentences of "is [adj] except " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | Oxybutynin is unhelpful except , perhaps , in children whose enuresis is part of a syndrome including frequency , urgency , dysuria , and covert bacteriuria . |
| 3 | The path is unmistakable except in deep snow , when it should not be attempted , and has no difficulties other than unremitting steepness . |
| 4 | Telegraphic transfer is similar except the instructions are sent by cable , phone , telex or electronic transfer . |
| 5 | He is content to believe this , the implication being that he is invulnerable except to anyone who is alive , who has been born . |
| 6 | The driver 's duty to accord precedence is absolute except for the circumstances mentioned in Burns v Bidder [ 1966 ] 3 All ER 29 . |
| 7 | Try writing your own story about a person who is ordinary except for one special quality . |
| 8 | Rear passengers perch high , which is fine except for the long-bodied , who have to duck the head to make the best of the view . |
| 9 | Which is fine except for one fact , In this instance , Professor Drucker , the most important management thinker of the post-war era , happens to agree with Peters . |
| 10 | This implies that unc is diagonal except for the leading ( 2 × 2 ) submatrix . |
| 11 | All this is conventional except for the projection forward of present-day mechanisms and gadgetry . |
| 12 | In a partnership , the liability of the partners is unlimited except in the case of a limited partnership , and even then there must be at least one general partner with unlimited liability . |
| 13 | Today Handa is uninhabited except by birds and is in the care of a warden . |
| 14 | Clearly the current situation in which the use of force is illegal except in self-defence is inadequate . |
| 15 | ( 3 ) The chairman of a licensing board has a second or casting vote when the voting in connection with a decision by the board is equal except where the matter being decided is the grant or provisional grant of a new licence . |
| 16 | Whereas nephrite contains a high proportion of magnesia and a considerable one of lime , neither of these is present except as traces in jadeite . |
| 17 | Since machinery now exists that permits a term certain to be contracted out of the 1954 Act 's security of tenure , it is unwise except in special circumstances , for a landlord to take a risk of granting a tenancy at will . |
| 18 | We now write unc so that each square matrix is null except for a unit in the appropriate diagonal position . |
| 19 | The canonical form obtained by a similar transformation of a matrix having equal eigenvalues , when reduced to its simplest form , has the eigenvalues in the principal diagonal , with equal eigenvalues in groups ; elsewhere the matrix is null except that there may be units in the superdiagonal . |
| 20 | If we divide each row through by its diagonal element , ( 1 ) becomes unc The leading matrix here is of the form I + C , where C is null except for the elements above the diagonal . |
| 21 | Francis de Sales , a great Christian writer , used to say : ‘ Half an hour 's daily listening is essential except when you are very busy and then a full hour is necessary . ’ |
| 22 | His swordsmanship is unequalled except perhaps by the Reiksmarshall Kurt Helborg — a match that has never been put to the test despite years of enmity between the two . |
| 23 | The amino acid sequence of the human N-Oct 3 ( brain-2 ) and the murine brain-2 protein is identical except for two additional amino acid residues in the mouse protein . |
| 24 | Screening high risk individuals by colonoscopic methods is an established procedure , but identification is crude except for those few families with hereditary colorectal cancer . |
| 25 | There is much gold about his person , in the form of anklets and wristlets , but otherwise he is naked except for a leopardskin loincloth . |
| 26 | Thus a large , lofty volume is enclosed by the roof and is useless except for the purpose of admitting daylight to the ‘ spinal ’ space of the building via high-level clerestory windows . |
| 27 | A doppelganger is invisible except to its owner and is not reflected in a mirror . |
| 28 | ‘ Everything in the house is new except for the fireplaces , ’ he says . |
| 29 | Having obtained B , we now select a pivotal element in it for the next step ; the selection is arbitrary except that the element must be nonzero and must not be in the second row , which contains the unit . |
| 30 | This means that D is not necessarily diagonal ; corresponding to αI there may be a ( 2 × 2 ) block which is arbitrary except that it must be symmetric and non-singular . |