It was found that all the distributors gave good-quality fluidisation at fluidising velocities greater than three times the minimum-fluidising value, except in a dead zone near the distributor.
There had been a small sliver of land set aside for a garden when the school was built, but except for a dead apple tree someone had stuck in the boggy ground some time ago, nothing had been developed.
But since the Authority had decided to limit the number of licenses in Moose Jaw to two, an unchallenged decision made well in advance of its determination of the applications for license, and since two validly issued and extant licenses were in existence, where could the grant of the remedy have led except to a dead end?
We had an experience just like that except instead of a dead body we were asked if we wanted to go see a secret ditch.
Churchill had declared in a 1924 article in The Arts magazine that "architects seem unable to think in anything except the terms of a dead tradition".
Folk singer Linda Thompson, part of a panel of judges who voted Let England Shake Uncut magazine's album of the year (it won the Mercury prize, and was Mojo and NME's album of the year, too) put it like this: "I was impressed that a woman could go through a whole album and not mention some stupid bloke, except a stupid dead bloke".
His tax returns are a dead issue, except on the left and liberal fringe.
Mr. D'Amico says: "What people have traditionally thought of as fine dining is pretty much a dead concept, except maybe in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Las Vegas".
In the end, two men were hanged for Mahon's killing: James Commins, about whom little is known except that he was supposedly "a dead shot," and Patrick Hasty, a carpenter and owner of an illegal tavern.
