Preposition: of

• circumstance: All applications are means tested and large awards are only made in the most exceptional of circumstances.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: The combination of those three factors would, to my mind, make the case exceptional.

Modifies a noun

• circumstance: Only exceptional circumstances justify starting a claim in the High Court.

• item: Most taxpayers will be able to gain finality with exceptional items in accounts.

• talent: I didn't believe that I had exceptional talent, " he says.

• hardship: They replaced the exceptional hardship and exceptional circumstances payments.

• case: In exceptional cases the College reserves the right to levy a minimum charge of £ 10.

• quality: Signature IV's exceptional print quality does not come at the expense of speed.

Modifying Another Word

• truly: This house is truly exceptional, a real home.

• wholly: This time limit may only be extended in wholly exceptional cases, where delay is unavoidable due to illness or annual leave.

• altogether: Such characters are not altogether exceptional in heroic Spain; it is a land of extremes.

• quite: Many of our leaders have quite exceptional backgrounds in the country to which they are taking you.

• very: You've placed me in a very exceptional position, Miss Stanley.

• highly: Taking the " highly exceptional circumstances " into account, the Sheriff said, " I grant you an absolute discharge " .

Used with adjective complement

• consider: You may also apply to increase the amount of your entitlement after it has been calculated if your circumstances are considered exceptional.

• deliver: A range that delivers exceptional ' value ' -- not just ' cheap ' products.

• mean: Extraordinary tho this may seem, Newton's formative years were by no means exceptional.

• provide: Limiting the occupancy to eight anglers enables the staff to provide exceptional personalized guest service.

• remain: Drought intensity again declined in some of the affected regions but overall the rainfall deficiency remains exceptional.

• treat: The resultant write-down of fixed assets and stocks has been included in operating costs but has been treated as exceptional.