Example sentences of "[subord] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make sure to articulate these clearly , alternating your plucking fingers except where raking from the 1st to 2nd strings ( notes E to A and D to A ) . |
| 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 | For an organ larger than this , there is no limit except that imposed by the customer 's ability to pay . |
| 4 | Any attempt , for example , to engineer a rate of unemployment except that associated with the natural rate of output will be thwarted . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In a pond goldfish will grow considerably larger than if kept in an indoor aquarium . |
| 8 | As Philippe de Mézières wrote in the late fourteenth century , some may well have come from those members of the lower nobility who did not normally go to war except when summoned by the king , but who , in certain cases , were now being forced to take up arms as a business . |
| 9 | Children under 14 are not permitted in bars except when passing through the bar to get from/to another part of the premises . |
| 10 | Light entering the sea penetrates at most to a depth of 1000 metres — and since the oceans have an average depth of 4000 m , this means that they are mostly dark , except when lit in the depths by bioluminescence ( see p.53 ) . |
| 11 | The Queen remains a remote figure , glacial and impenetrable except when caught by the press cameras watching one of her horses winning at the races . |
| 12 | Come to that , why does no photograph of this man come out , except when taken from the air ? |
| 13 | They will include : ( i ) modification of share rights ; ( ii ) acquisitions or disposals of shares or substantial parts of the business or its assets ; ( iii ) changes in the Memorandum or Articles of Association ; ( iv ) changes to the auditors , bankers , or the accounting reference date ; ( v ) resolutions to wind up the company ( or a subsidiary ) ; ( vi ) payment of dividends or other distributions other than as provided in the Articles of Association ; ( vii ) changes in issued or authorised share capital ; ( viii ) contracts or arrangements by the company with any of the directors ; ( ix ) changes in borrowing powers ; ( x ) changes to the nature of the business ; ( xi ) guarantees or indemnities provided by the company ; ( xii ) limits on capital expenditure ; ( xiii ) creation of mortgages or charges over any of the company 's assets . |
| 14 | Suicide or self-injury , wilful self-exposure to peril ( except in an attempt to save human life ) , the influence of drugs ( except as prescribed by a registered medical practitioner other than for treatment of drug addiction ) or alcohol , or the person insured engaging in , during the period of holiday or journey , wintersports , mountaineering , racing ( other than on foot ) or other hazardous adventure . |
| 15 | Regulations made under this section must not delegate to one or more members of the licensing board , or to officials or other persons , except as authorised by the Act , any responsibility which must be exercised by the licensing board at any of their meetings . |
| 16 | ‘ Except as provided by the subsequent provisions of this Part of this Act — ( a ) no person who under or for the purposes of this Act receives information relating to the business or other affairs of any person ; and ( b ) no person who obtains any such information directly or indirectly from a person who has received it as aforesaid , shall disclose the information without the consent of the person to whom it relates and ( if different ) the person from whom it was received as aforesaid . |
| 17 | In private , Alcock is kindly and avuncular , a natural teacher , never happier than when passing on the fruits of his knowledge to the younger generation . |
| 18 | Locating the feeding routes of bream is no less important when float fishing from a punt than when legering from the bank . |
| 19 | Nowhere is this more obvious than when looking at the competitive reactions to the acquisition of other companies . |
| 20 | She loved the countryside round The Milebrook and was never happier than when riding over the hills . |
| 21 | He was never more present than in this act ; never more comprehending of himself than when buried in the other sex . |
| 22 | They can also be extremely awkward , never more so than when loaded with the needle-tips of a yucca or the sharks teeth of an agave . |
| 23 | Close inspection of the data showed that the context effects were due to inhibition : when preceded by an anomalous context , words took an average of 110 milliseconds longer to identify than when preceded by a row of Xs . |
| 24 | To cut the dole was , in Seely 's view , essential , but ‘ this tangle can not be unravelled by any one party , or even any two , because if opposed by the third they would lose the Election and the evil would continue . ’ |
| 25 | They make oral sex safer because if placed over the vulva , they prevent HIV transmission through infected vaginal juices or menstrual blood getting into a partner 's mouth — particularly if your partner has bleeding gums , mouth ulcers or cuts . |
| 26 | Wood dyes are best applied with a cloth , because if applied with a brush , there will be dark areas where the brush first touches the wood . |
| 27 | It , it depends on just what these things are for , because if think about a third level document as being something like the T G I manual , that 's got to be mandatory , you 've got no choice in it because it 's not covered in procedures , it 's got to be that . |
| 28 | It does , nevertheless , have one benefit in that it makes the identification of the Z3 Carbonate relatively easy because when combined with the leaching profile at the top of the formation , it gives the sonic log a characteristic D-shape which is unique to the Z3 Carbonate ( Fig. 28 ) . |
| 29 | In the latter case , the higher-level program is translated as a whole into a lower-level program as a whole , and that process is carried out at a time before and separate from the time when the ( compiled ) program runs . |
| 30 | The hay had been cut a few days before and dried in the sun and Frederick made light work of heaving it up to Albert on the cart . |