Example sentences of "[subord] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that looked pretty funny like and it fell down a couple of days ago and maybe a pretty while afore that I du n no . |
| 2 | Except that ( and this is decisive in regard to the situation of the one-idea painter ) his format was private — almost , one might say , the framework of another self , or of himself in another form — and unavailable to others . |
| 3 | Ministers , both presbyterian and Church of Ireland , suffer similar pressures in many other local communities , except that they often stay silent rather than risk conflict , personal hardship , or violence . |
| 4 | Except that I can not work like that . |
| 5 | He wore a blazer , not unlike the one Lord Woodleigh wore except that instead of discreet brass buttons it was decorated by no fewer than five enormous , tinselly affairs . |
| 6 | Except that Jilly Jonathan burst into unstoppable giggles . |
| 7 | You 'd have thought they were best friends or something , except that girls do n't have proper friends the way boys do . |
| 8 | Except that we do n't know whose hand . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | First , an objector might try to press the fashionable distaste for the first-person perspective and say that the fact that I can not apply the theory to myself shows nothing except that one should not approach the philosophy of mind via the first person . |
| 11 | It may well be there is nothing wrong with hops in this form except that I find that brewers who use them , such as Whitbread and Charles Wells , produce beers with a bitterness that is a shade too harsh for my liking . |
| 12 | I have few comments to make , except that the sack survived very well , save for some sections of the Advent material used for the back and inside the shoulder straps , which were eaten by salt-seeking grasshoppers ! |
| 13 | This is like a road-maker 's pneumatic breaker in miniature , except that the drill bit rotates to clear the debris from the hole . |
| 14 | In principle it would be quite possible for the study of English poetry to begin in a similar ab initio fashion , except that it would be fruitless for someone to embark on it who did not have at least some familiarity with poetry and a wish to read more . |
| 15 | They will not tell you a lot about what 's going to make him tick as an adult , except that he might be good at a particular academic subject . ’ |
| 16 | This would seem a benign effect of Thatcher 's bad potty training , except that Abse has a bee in his bonnet against gambling . |
| 17 | To that extent they ought to have wide circulation , except that they depend on the kind of painstaking preparation that Knussen had given them — the music sounded taught and nurtured rather than merely rehearsed . |
| 18 | He got four years and later emigrated to Australia , whereas I was fined £30 and am welcome on Wogan , except that I am not . |
| 19 | I know nothing about Mukden except that it and Blackpool are equally unlucky in their names . |
| 20 | After all , at a time when the British musical was despised , he did write , direct and star in several notable exceptions to the rule — a sort of Kenneth Branagh of the early Sixties , except that Branagh 's yet to take Broadway , does n't compose music , and has never had a No 1 record . |
| 21 | It is , in theory , the best of both worlds — except that Buddy Holly , by all accounts , was not terribly interesting . |
| 22 | There is no difference between government coverage and party coverage in this respect except that government has more initiative in determining the news , which means that it has more opportunity than the opposition to ensure that its coverage is favourable . |
| 23 | Everyone remembered him as a big man in all senses but not as a good headmaster except that he liked everyone and everyone liked him and in chapel he was a superlative speaker . |
| 24 | Before 1948 we used to pretend that all such countries were just copies of the United Kingdom , except that , in place of the monarch , they had a Governor-General , who , we assured ourselves and them , represented the monarch . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | Except that the meaning of these has waned . |
| 27 | As simple as can be , except that nowhere in the world have I encountered a door with such a gap between it and the floor . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Possibly , except that in homosexual culture it has rarely been , and certainly was not tor Genet , quite that simple . |
| 30 | Everything was fine except that when we were at it I did hear these funny noises coming from somewhere . |