Many participles have turned into prepositions, such as "according", "allowing", "concerning", "considering", "excepting", "following", "given", "granted", "owing", "regarding" and "respecting", and they don't need subjects at all.
The 97.5% of water that is salty, for example, is hardly considered, except as a means of transport.
Ms. Centrello declined to comment about whom she has considered, except to say, "It is a terrific job and many people are interested in having it".
In a nearby gallery is "Gigantic Fun," the Chapmans's post-post-modern take on Goya, an approach in which serious matters cannot be considered except through a screen of cynical wit.
"A lot of things that you may factor in, I don't ponder, don't think about, don't even consider, except that this game is the most important game we play because it is the next game we play".
I am not going to comment on anybody else that was considered, except to say that we made the decision that we thought was best for the Presidents Cup, best for the team".
Bob Williams Jr., the vice president for sales and marketing at Roberts & Schaefer, said that using specially built silos for blending coal is an unusually expensive approach, and would barely be considered except at large coal ports.
He was like a magician revealing sleight-of-hand secrets — all of the tricks made instinctive sense, because they were things you'd seen but not considered — except that he kept describing how to avoid making things look dead.
BOD is positively correlated to all other parameters considered except for DO and pH.
This type of code construction is applied to all the algorithms considered except in ACO.
