except the above vs except to the above

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• One does not distinguish any more the brother of sister except the nose above.
• The Commission considers that it has proposed the necessary draft legislation and policy measures to cover all the above - except, as an important part of the last point, issues surrounding the integration of third country nationals in the Member States.
• The planned services must be guaranteed throughout one calendar year at least and, except in the case mentioned above, may be suspended only with six months' notice.
• (3) In accordance with the provisions of Article 11(5) of the basic Regulation, all the above parties except for one user requested and were granted hearings.
• Manufacturing requirements shall be in accordance with paragraph 8.3. above except that the over-wrap shall also include helically wound filaments.
• This medicinal product must not be mixed with other medicinal products except those mentioned above.
• For vehicles fitted with an electric regenerative braking system of either category, all the relevant prescriptions shall apply except paragraph 5.2.18.1.1 above.
• all the above countries except Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Iceland have replied to the letters, and expressed interest in discussing the practical implementation of the Code with the European Union,
• self-propelled agricultural vehicles (except tractors as defined above),
• Similarly to the PRC, a dumping calculation was also performed using the methodology stated above, except that Brazilian normal values were replaced by those of the cooperating Indonesian producers.
• Like the/ away command above except that the command is sent to all the servers you have connected in & konversation;.
• Either a message text, - file, - exec, - exec-display, - play or - play-repeat must be specified; except as noted above, all the options are optional.
• Manufacturers shall make available on a website the ingredient datasheet mentioned above except for the following information:
• Each number is the sum of the two numbers above, except for the edges, which are all ones.
• Member States shall guarantee the right of the victim to decline the information referred to in paragraphs 2 and 2a above, except where its provision is explicitly required under the criminal law applying to the case.
• Manufacturing requirements shall be in accordance with paragraph 8.3. above except that the curing temperature for thermosetting resins shall be at least 10 ºC below the softening temperature of the plastic liner.
• Like the/ me command above except that the message is sent to all the channels and queries you have open on all the servers you have connected in & konversation;.
• The discharge efficiency test is largely identical to the average efficiency test above, except that the flat sheet of filter media sample is electrostatically discharged with isopropanol (IPA) before testing.
• mathcommand[\\optarg]{\\symbol}: Same as above, except that the command in the mandatory argument is inserted in math mode.
• Wednesday: 1] The same as 1, 2 and 3 above, except that this time my walking companion is called Maarit, a reader whom I met in the social community Myspace.

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• Specifically, TSOs may not limit interconnection capacity in order to solve congestion inside their own control area, except for the above mentioned reasons and reasons of operational security.
• Specifically, TSOs may not limit interconnection capacity in order to solve congestion inside their own control area, except for the above mentioned reasons and reasons of operational security [1].
• The Commission considers that it has proposed the necessary draft legislation and policy measures to cover all the above - except, as an important part of the last point, issues surrounding the integration of third country nationals in the Member States.
• (3) In accordance with the provisions of Article 11(5) of the basic Regulation, all the above parties except for one user requested and were granted hearings.
• This medicinal product must not be mixed with other medicinal products except those mentioned above.
• Manufacturing requirements shall be in accordance with paragraph 8.3. above except that the over-wrap shall also include helically wound filaments.
• all the above countries except Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Iceland have replied to the letters, and expressed interest in discussing the practical implementation of the Code with the European Union,
• self-propelled agricultural vehicles (except tractors as defined above),
• Either a message text, - file, - exec, - exec-display, - play or - play-repeat must be specified; except as noted above, all the options are optional.
• Like the/ away command above except that the command is sent to all the servers you have connected in & konversation;.
• Manufacturers shall make available on a website the ingredient datasheet mentioned above except for the following information:
• Manufacturers shall make available on a website the ingredient data sheet mentioned above except for the following:
• Each number is the sum of the two numbers above, except for the edges, which are all ones.
• Member States shall guarantee the right of the victim to decline the information referred to in paragraphs 2 and 2a above, except where its provision is explicitly required under the criminal law applying to the case.
• Like the/ me command above except that the message is sent to all the channels and queries you have open on all the servers you have connected in & konversation;.
• Manufacturing requirements shall be in accordance with paragraph 8.3. above except that the curing temperature for thermosetting resins shall be at least 10 ºC below the softening temperature of the plastic liner.
• mathcommand[\\optarg]{\\symbol}: Same as above, except that the command in the mandatory argument is inserted in math mode.
• Wednesday: 1] The same as 1, 2 and 3 above, except that this time my walking companion is called Maarit, a reader whom I met in the social community Myspace.
• Subject to note 1 above and except where the context otherwise requires, any reference to 'wood' in a heading of this chapter applies also to bamboos and other materials of a woody nature.
• Again the numbers are separated by either a dash or an oblique stroke, the significance of which is as in (ii) above, except that the combined statements of recommended safety precautions are set out in Annex IV.