Sentence examples for goods except for from inspiring English sources

Much of the Mitsubishi keiretsu's business is in capital goods; except for a chain of department stores, it has no services or communications businesses that matter.

One of the very basic tenets of the rule of law in Britain was expressed by AC Dicey in 1885: "In the first place, no man is punishable or can be lawfully made to suffer in body or goods except for a distinct breach of the law established in ordinary legal manner before the ordinary courts of the land".

China is the world's dominant producer of rare earths, tungsten and molybdenum, and it has imposed increasingly stringent export taxes and quotas on them for the past two years despite having promised the W.T.O. when it joined in 2001 that it would remove export taxes and quotas on all goods except for a handful of other products.

One retailer we visited as part of this study hard tagged all goods (except for shoes where only those for the right foot were on display).

Technology is the same for all goods, except for the degree of economies of scale, which is measured by ( sigma_{i} ), that is, output elasticity with respect to only one input ( S_{i} ).

The church struggled to eliminate the pagan habits of leaving grave goods except for the clothing and usual jewellry of the powerful, especially rings.

Mr Khawaja said his medical treatment had been good "except for the force-feeding", something officials deny.

"I feel good, except for the pain," Hamilton said.

The perinatal outcome was good, except for two high-risk fetuses.

His postseason records are also good, except for last October's painful series against the Yankees.

The applicability of the simplified analysis procedure was found to be very good, except for interlayer shear stresses.