Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father was always very elegant , never without his hat , a Borsalino , and often smoking a thin cigar : He always spoke in the Parma dialect and was hardly ever at home except for meals or to see the farmers . |
| 2 | Fare increases ( except for air and ferry tickets ) were , however , frozen until the end of 1990 , and price controls were tightened . |
| 3 | And to protect their lucrative link-up with the pools companies , the League have agreed that clubs will no longer have the option of moving Saturday games except for television or policing purposes . |
| 4 | Malicious acts and vandalism , except for loss or damage occurring in the circumstances detailed in * The Buildings Unoccupancy Clause in your Policy . |
| 5 | Escape of water from or frost damages to any washing machine dishwasher or plumbed-in domestic water or heating installation , except for loss or damage occurring in the circumstances detailed in *The Buildings Unoccupancy Clause in your Policy . |
| 6 | ‘ It wo n't cost you anything except for booze and eats . |
| 7 | ‘ It wo n't cost you anything except for booze and eats , ’ Dennis had told me . |
| 8 | ( 1982 ) have shown that about three-quarters of the change has been to woodland , as shown in Figure 8.4 , and that this pattern is fairly geographically even , except for Dartmoor as shown in Table 8.4 . |
| 9 | Even so , at 420% , the increase is appreciably better than for oils and works on paper . |
| 10 | Examples are fewer , it seems , than for matrilines but include spider monkeys , the red colobus , chimpanzees , and also the hamadryas baboon when movements between clans rather than in and out of harems is considered . |
| 11 | Is it because the Labour party feels that it could not convince the people but could achieve its objectives through a centralist bureaucracy in Europe — rather than through argument and persuading its own people ? |
| 12 | But the Secretary of State was not prepared to wait until research demonstrated , if it could , that common schools were better than a divided system ; such divisions were , in his view , matters of value rather than of fact and related to a vision of the nature of a social democracy . |
| 13 | Too often school examinations are concerned more with remembering than with understanding and applying knowledge . |
| 14 | They are distinct , but they overlap in certain respects , albeit in areas that do not challenge their basic theoretical viewpoints . |
| 15 | ‘ Except in cases that require learning and skill ’ , says Baxter , ‘ she was better at resolving a case of conscience than most divines that I ever knew in all my life . ’ |
| 16 | Non-standard grammatical forms such as ‘ we was ’ do not tend to appear in written form ( except in literature when trying to convey speech ) . |
| 17 | Although in profile and painted , rather than in relief , it bears a striking resemblance to the Alletio sherd from Corbridge . |
| 18 | With its emphasis on universal downwearing , it was a negative and obliterating conception resulting from cerebral analysis rather than from observation and has led to sterility in geomorphologic thought and retarded progress in the subject severely . |
| 19 | It is again perhaps surprising that needs in Waltham Forest are greater than in Knowsley and striking how much higher the estimated needs are for Hackney than for Knowsley ; part of the reason for the lowish assessment for Knowsley is due to the very low proportion of elderly , although this might easily be offset in principle by the atypically high proportions of children there . |
| 20 | However , I prefer to do things about the house out of the goodness of my heart rather than on request and consider making a little tut noise with the tip of my tongue behind my top teeth . |
| 21 | Instead of packages , it is more likely that options based on a central processor and visual display unit will be offered , to enable buyers to spend more on input and output devices rather than on storage and printing facilities . |
| 22 | And erm the only other outstanding sponsor from last year was Northern Rock and that has been a bit of a qu a problem because er it 's , we have n't had a closing gala event which might attract them but just recently erm Paul who as you know performed last year with his band so er well er is , had rang me and said that they are doing something in Venice and they could in fact take the boat to Hull rather than to Dover and bring it here and I 'm , so I 'm working on the assumption that we might have that . |
| 23 | Firstly Chen [ 18 ] has shown that binding to GGCC in CATGGCCATG is slower than to TATGGCCATA and suggested that this might be because actinomycin molecules , stacking at the ends of the former duplex , can alter the DNA structure so as to facilitate further drug binding . |
| 24 | The ( Iraqi ) Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and Kurdistan Democratic Party on Oct. 4 issued an ultimatum to the PKK to leave Iraq by Oct. 5 , their aim being to force the PKK to leave rather than to kill or crush them . |
| 25 | Two or three numbers might be required as input to a calculation lasting several hours , impossible to accomplish except by computer and producing only a small volume of output . |
| 26 | To reach it other than by boat or wading in low tide would have taken an hour 's drive , so it was not often visited by the women . |
| 27 | The others had potential , but I bathed and groomed her as if for Crufts and made my way to the hospital . |
| 28 | Provided that the purchaser did not have actual or constructive notice of the prior assignment at the time the asset sale agreement was completed , the purchaser is not prejudiced , if between completion and giving notice to the debtor , the purchaser discovers the existence of a prior assignment by the vendor ( see Mutual Life Assurance Society v Langley [ 1886 ] 32 Ch D 460 ) . |
| 29 | Wycliffe stayed chatting until after midnight and had to drive back in conditions which were , if anything , worse than they had been earlier . |
| 30 | He was not expected at Bramshill until after luncheon and had planned to take his time over the journey to north Hampshire , visiting churches at Sherborne St John and Winchfield and lunching at a pub near Stratfield Saye before arriving at Bramshill in time for the usual courtesies with the Commandant before his two-thirty lecture . |