Example sentences of "[conj] [that] [prep] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doubtless there will be some who will argue that attempting to change structures is less important than trying to convince those who exercise power in our society to do so responsibly or that in any case radical changes in structures are politically impossible . |
| 2 | The growth of the comprehensives brought with it a significant expansion in the curriculum content of secondary schooling , which should have been helpful to girls , except that in many schools expansion meant typing or shorthand or child-care for girls , and quite different subjects for boys . |
| 3 | The same applied to traditional football except that in this case legislation merely banned the game from the public highway . |
| 4 | The result of this , as far as the individual is concerned , is still inevitably depression and its polar opposite mania , except that in these circumstances depression has become the vague permanent melancholy which state oppression invariably induces , and the intermittent mania is that produced by alcohol . |
| 5 | The similarities between this mound and that on Wild Boar Fell in terms of placement and structure are remarkable . |
| 6 | The origins of this marital-rape exemption seem to lie in the notion that the wife is the husband 's property , or that the wife promises intercourse on demand , but it has been defended in modern times on the basis that such cases raise essentially family matters , better suited to examination in a non-criminal court , and that in any case proof would be difficult . |