Example sentences of "[subord] [conj] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally , all defendants in libel cases use the same solicitors and barristers , but where as here there is a conflict of interest , each would be entitled to separate representation and the authors who stood by their story would thus be able to disown the apology . |
| 2 | Where as now they |
| 3 | All types of medicines reputed to be the equal of branded goods except that generally they were just a load of rubbish . |
| 4 | Except that privately I was lauded quite a lot and told , ‘ Oh that 's good , keep going into the hospitals and doing that ’ , but people could n't acknowledge it in public because their jobs would be on the line . |
| 5 | She seemed the same as ever as she closed in on him with that unfortunate overbearing manner , except that today there was an almost wild look about her as she burst out , ‘ I felt I had to come , Freddie . |
| 6 | ‘ Just the usual bookkeeping , except that here we are involved with two separate establishments . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's pretty much like the procedure at any hospital when an emergency crops up , except that here we tend to use a little more subtlety . |
| 8 | A rather similar phantasy informs the divide-and-rule thesis except that here it is the ruling class whose power is both all-pervasive , and works to sow the seeds of rivalry amongst those ‘ brothers and sisters ’ subjected to its tyrannical will . |
| 9 | Oh , ’ she added , ‘ except that somehow I never mentioned what I got from Dad . |
| 10 | Except that already it is not quite that simple , since the post-modern sophisticate is also the critic of these other , negative ways of relating to the other ; he or she is the one who diagnoses their social and psychic economies . |
| 11 | And there is much more advice that I did not take in , except that later I remember it when a new situation arises . |
| 12 | ‘ Except that later I shall have to tell your Uncle Matthew . |
| 13 | There was no reason why this man should n't be out on the moor on a fine spring night , except that hardly anyone but Stephen ever was . |
| 14 | Tascam made it with a bit of the old ‘ Come All Ye ’ and mouths fell open ‘ aghast ’ when Mr Magic , Sam Woods , placed his assistant in a cabinet , broke it down into five separate pieces , and put her back together again , except that now her head replaced her knee-caps ! |
| 15 | The door closed on them slowly ; they thinned into a long , faint strand of light and vanished , and everything was dark , dark for three days ; except that now there was no way of distinguishing night from day , and time , like hope and pleasure and companionship and all the human things it measured , had stopped . |
| 16 | Except that now he 'd stolen the cup Crazy Jake , their father , had given her . |
| 17 | It was as if I 'd only just found him , except that now I 'd start to wail like a baby if someone so much as knocked my little finger . |
| 18 | I 'd started locking my shirts in a desk drawer every night , except that now I 'd lost the key with all my Ben Shermans in there . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I would , ’ says Myers , ‘ except that hopefully there 's a lot of smart stuff in the movie , like the Cantonese subtitles scene . ’ |
| 20 | I am not sure why this quarter was called ‘ Chinese ’ except that perhaps its apartness from the regular secular and religious life of Salamanca made it seem like another country , and a far-off , exotic one at that . |
| 21 | Every morning I climbed into the BMW and swept off , just as Dennis had once done , except that once I reached the Banbury Road I had nowhere to go . |
| 22 | If we ca n't see anything more unusual suppose we could always fall back on the bubble baths or the anyway I think that 's a bit more than but there you go . |
| 23 | Transposons can also be thought of as parasites , although as yet we know little of the harm , or good , they may do to the host cell . |
| 24 | Although as yet their role was peripheral , from the point of view of Russia 's subsequent history the new ideology and forms of organization which they adopted in this period merit close attention . |
| 25 | Although as yet they have made relatively little contribution to the overall rural housing scene , their existence and growth seems assured . |
| 26 | Although as yet there is in English law no general rule giving the plaintiff a right of recovery from a defendant who has been unjustly enriched at the plaintiff 's expense , the concept of unjust enrichment lies at the heart of all the individual instances in which the law does give a right of recovery . |
| 27 | Rosenthal , who is keen to move back to the continent , has also been touted in France although as yet there has been no definite interest . |
| 28 | Already the whole class had begun to warm towards Miss Honey , although as yet she had hardly taken any notice of any of them except Matilda . |
| 29 | erm if if like I mean for instance we were n't clear about what we were talking about |
| 30 | If and again I probably overestimate the average journey time does not exceed thirty minutes , it is difficult even with Merseyrail to conceive trains being delayed in excess of an hour . |