Example sentences of "[subord] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Out came the most perfect rendering I had ever heard , ’ said Coghill , ‘ except that given a short while before by John Gielgud in his Haymarket Hamlet . |
| 2 | Since she 'd started work she had seen nothing of the surrounding area , except that covered by the bus route which took her to work and back each day . |
| 3 | I do n't conclude anything from that either , except that fancying is a complicated business . |
| 4 | Except that to say this like this negates some of the significance of what has been said earlier . |
| 5 | For an organ larger than this , there is no limit except that imposed by the customer 's ability to pay . |
| 6 | Nu replied by promoting yet another Leftist unity programme , There was no response ; instead a major part of the PVO went underground while all the former BNA battalions of the army except that commanded by Ne Win mutinied and joined the rebels . |
| 7 | He could perhaps have submitted himself to some army medical board , but whether they would have enthused over the application of a 48-year-old epileptic syphilitic with no military experience except that acquired while shooting wild-life in the desert |
| 8 | Wyatt submitted Scott 's letter to the India Council and , as a result , his official letter of 1st January , 1859 entrusted Scott with ‘ the architectural superintendence of the building ’ , except that to ensure : |
| 9 | Any attempt , for example , to engineer a rate of unemployment except that associated with the natural rate of output will be thwarted . |
| 10 | The precipitants of the disorder are less clearly understood except that dieting is invariably an early element . |
| 11 | So Eliot , in ‘ ode ’ , a poem dealing with a tortured wedding night , has a protagonist apparently lacking in all inspiration except that coming from the ‘ bubbling ’ of a river described as ‘ mephitic ’ . |
| 12 | On the other hand , it may be urged that self-help ought to be strictly limited even against a wrongdoer and forbidden altogether against one who is not a wrongdoer , except that retaking might be permitted in circumstances of inevitable accident or of necessity ( e.g . |
| 13 | In 1952 it adopted the practice of permitting deputies to stand in for the ministers : the deputies soon became permanent features , attending to all business except that deemed to be symbolically important . |
| 14 | As the house will know , following discussions in Brussels , political agreement has been reached in the council on the amendment draft directive which , if implemented in its present form , would impose on auditors a slightly wider duty to report than that contained in the regulations we 're currently debating . |
| 15 | Now you see in my days on the railway sixty miles an hour was a good speed for a train it di it did n't reckon to do much more than that see . |
| 16 | Flour for domestic use was home produced and much heavier in texture than that milled from imported Canadian me- wheat which was banned in nineteen forty two . |
| 17 | Figures for illegal drugs are harder to come by , but around 2m Americans are thought to take cocaine , and many more than that have smoked marijuana . |
| 18 | Secondly , I believe the method of selection that my Right Honourable Friend the Home Secretary has proposed in Amendment twenty-seven is a broader method of selection than that proposed elsewhere . |
| 19 | When such phenomena as that become apparent , |
| 20 | It was either that or dump herself on to the perch in a heap , having given up the struggle , and she was much too graceful and proud to let something as undignified as that happen . |