Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother was ‘ outrageous with joy ’ at the return of her lost child , and put him to bed , where in a day or two he recovered . |
| 2 | Except for a name that ought to look familiar to readers of Alexandre Dumas , because as Aramis it is that of one of the Three Musketeers . |
| 3 | His scrawny body was naked except for a loincloth and the tattered remains of a jerkin . |
| 4 | They were empty except for a caretaker or two . |
| 5 | She was naked except for a tampax and a lot of acrylic paint . |
| 6 | It was empty except for an ox and ass who snorted and brayed a greeting . |
| 7 | In this it distinguishes between the ‘ intrinsic ’ and ‘ schema ’ aesthetic except for an insistence that depth counter responses be firmly based upon observations of the perceptual surface . |
| 8 | Roth 's influence was less as a teacher , there having been during his lifetime much less scope than later for Jewish studies in Britain , than as a writer and lecturer . |
| 9 | Today , 30 years after his death , Lewis is remembered more as the author of such enchanting children 's stories as The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe than as a writer and broadcaster on ethical and religious questions , but it is one of those BBC sermons which he delivers at the beginning of this play . |
| 10 | But this implies that if we regressed C t on the three variables and entered separately , rather than as a sum as in equation ( 3.18 ) , we should observe that the coefficients estimated on these three variables are approximately all the same , as they are all estimates of α t , provided that we have specified the model correctly . |
| 11 | All the same , despite his intelligence and charm , Diderot is perhaps less interesting in himself than as a symptom and influence . |
| 12 | The SACHR felt it should be used as an incentive to good practice rather than as a weapon after an employer had been found guilty of a criminal offence ( discrimination ) . |
| 13 | The A G M , the last two years people have said well there 's not a great deal of point in coming along other than for a drink because er the committee 's got it all sorted out , you know , beforehand as regards who 's doing what . |
| 14 | The phrase quoted is hardly attested elsewhere except as a fourth-century and hellenistic Asia Minor formula , used by the cities under the Persian and Seleucid kings and satraps . |
| 15 | Olivetti , a prominent member of the Apache splinter group of ACE companies that insisted on going the Unix SVR4 route , says it wo n't offer Santa Cruz Operation Inc 's ACE Open Desktop implementation , except as an option if customers require it . |
| 16 | In Cool Cats : 25 Years Of Rock 'N' Roll Style , published in the early '80s , journalist Cynthia Rose wrote : ‘ Rock music has failed to take on woman except as an idol or a target . ’ |
| 17 | One party would be returned to office with an overall majority and implement its manifesto program , a program neither known nor supported by most electors and one drawn up on the basis more of party dogma than of a dispassionate and well-informed analysis of Britain 's problems . |
| 18 | I thought it was better going to drama school direct rather than via a university and if you 're going to act I think that 's the way . |
| 19 | ‘ But of course , you may not wish to meet another man , except with a whip and when he is manacled . |
| 20 | Cos these are exactly the same except with a well and two erm those four holes missing . |
| 21 | And how better to celebrate VAT than with a Vicars and Tarts Ball ? |
| 22 | He had swallowed the worst of his gall , although with a gulp that almost choked him . |
| 23 | The true nature of the transaction can be ascertained only by examining the terms of the contract between X and Y. If it is clear that Y is buying the goods for himself , albeit with a commitment or an intention to re-sell , then Y is a buyer and re-seller . |
| 24 | No one must ever ask where another rabbit was and anyone who asked , " Where ? " — except in a song or a poem — must be silenced . |
| 25 | Baldwin ( 1954 ) states that 42 per cent of Mexico had ‘ accelerated erosion ’ and so on , although as section 1 of this chapter suggests , it is difficult to know how to gauge the significance of these figures except in a general and qualitative way , which indeed may be sufficient . |
| 26 | But such was the strength of their local authority that most of the larger Catholic households were able to maintain their liturgical tradition , although in a way that was increasingly isolated from the mainstream of local life . |
| 27 | What they meant by that was that managers would do the kind of thing I 've just described like y'know transmit an ambiguous message orally rather than in a memo and visa versa . |
| 28 | That , along with the kicks and punches shown , has to be practised , and there is no better place to do it than in a kick-boxing or Thai boxing class . |
| 29 | Research has shown that 80 per cent of the population would prefer to live in the country rather than in a city or urban town . |
| 30 | Domestically inclined spirits , they are happiest when warmly ensconced by the grate or hob over a kitchen fire , and are more at home in the country than in a city or town . |