Sentence examples for but an exception from inspiring English sources

You're travelling at close to five hundred miles an hour,… As Anthony Burgess once commented, there is no better reason for not reading a book than having it, but an exception should be made for… Walter Such was a translator.

But an exception can be made.

For him, 2009 remains a painful memory but an exception.

But an exception to that rule is Zurich.

It's not often I feel sorry for bookmakers, but an exception could be made here.

The block is zoned as mainly residential, but an exception can be made for a "hospital-related facility".

It still happens, but as an exception, not the rule.

But such an exception seems ever more rare.

(But make an exception for the sneaking beauties of Charles Bargue's "A Bashi-Bazouk").

But mobile is an exception.

But Dali was an exception.