Example sentences of "except [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we interpret it as though it is like ‘ Now I 'm sweating ’ , except that what is reported is a mental and not a bodily process . |
| 2 | It collapsed like a punctured airbag , except that what came forth was not air but rank , fetid water , vomiting out in a copious stream and bringing with it a stench that sent them both staggering back several paces . |
| 3 | The type of use under discussion is therefore exactly parallel to the infinitive of result , except that what has brought the support to realize the happening denoted by the infinitive 's lexeme is left undefined . |
| 4 | Except that we do n't know whose hand . ’ |
| 5 | The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it . |
| 6 | First the wild unconscious play when we hardly distinguished between the open fields and the neighbourhood of towns except that we preferred the fields . |
| 7 | This month , for no particular reason except that we felt like it , we offer a celebration of the word , from the P-funky smile of The Afros ( aboe ) to the activism of the X-Clan , from Monie Love 's glorious pop to Gang Starr 's jazz variation . |
| 8 | Except that we can all agree to drive them out by battle . |
| 9 | We should by now be familiar with the general formula for decomposing data : Data = Fit + Residual The process of smoothing time series also produces such a decomposition of the data except that we mainly use the alternative , more suggestive form of words . |
| 10 | Quite how Punch resembles a religious festival involving millions of peckish Muslims I 'm not quite sure , except that we do n't like Salman Rushdie much either . |
| 11 | So there the subject rested for a while , except that we agreed to purchase coffins at some future date to put by in readiness for the inevitable , but owing to the usual pressures of day-to-day living we never got around to it . |
| 12 | We would n't have been passing the church except that we called in to collect Maggie Sullivan and it 's a shortcut from her place to the Feathers . ’ |
| 13 | Well except that we do , I mean in in offence erm we do n't get it from that particular forum , but I would n't say that , that is how we operate . |
| 14 | Sleep still has no obvious rationale , except that we do it when we feel sleepy or " tired " , and after doing it we 're " rested " — and do n't feel sleepy any more . |
| 15 | The usual reduction to triangular form is by a pivotal condensation similar to that described in 2.2.1 , except that we only remove elements below the diagonal . |
| 16 | Except that we preferred Starr Hills … |
| 17 | Nothing has happened today , except that we have come to a sort of agreement about exercise . |
| 18 | Except that we were never completely apart , my love , for you were always beside me , and you were always there , and I think that without you there there were times when I should certainly have been crushed by the weight of a Crown I did not really want . |
| 19 | To pick verses at random from the Bible proves nothing at all , except that we are gullible and are not using the Scriptures as we are intended to . |
| 20 | These people , they had nothing to tell us except that we were white and had money . |
| 21 | ‘ Except that we wo n't get to the South of France now . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Except that we ca n't spend every minute of the time we 're together making love , can we ? |
| 23 | The only real , the only true wealth lies in friends in abundance , company in plenty , comfort in abandon , love overflowing : what have these things to do with money ? — except that we cheat and lie and use money to acquire them ; knowing no other way to do it . |
| 24 | It is a choice that is fully there for us to make at the same time and in the same fashion as other countries , except that we have the additional option of deciding that it would not be right for this country . |
| 25 | Except that we do n't have any cobwebs . ’ |
| 26 | Except that we can on a full page sell up because there are a couple of premium slots like the one you see there inside |
| 27 | This is very similar to the way the accounts book was organised except that we do n't know the page number for each name . |
| 28 | Except that we love the same man , she added silently . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're right , Shelley — except that we do n't request X-rays on Sundays unless the condition is life-threatening . |
| 30 | It 's the bit of the Gothic , except that we know that this is , well we do n't know then do we ? |