Experts agreed that the 82-page verdict was carefully drawn up, except for the first sentence, which read, "At 1903 hours on 22 December 1988 Pan Am flight 103 fell out of the sky".
The official, Nabil Shaath, a leader of Mr. Abbas's party and a veteran negotiator, said that Mr. Obama's speech had "contained little hope for the Palestinians," except for the one sentence that spoke of the borders of a future Palestinian state being based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed land swaps, a shift in American diplomatic language that addressed a long-held Palestinian demand.
Except for those sentenced to life with parole, inmates now serve set terms fixed largely by law.
Except for the punctuation and sentence template rules (r1 and r2 above), all linearisation rules are applicable to NPs.
To maximize behavioral specificity, we designed a tightly controlled verbal task comprised of sets of single sentences – sentences identical except for the type of mental state specified in the verb (belief, emotion, perception, syntax control).
The rest of the play calls into question some, most or all of the facts in the previous sentence (except for the part about the Obie), and it is up to Ms. Metcalf to convey these contradictory narrative threads while both courting and spurning the audience's sympathy.
However, in the present study the same verbal stimuli were used in both 1stPP and 3rdPP conditions, except for the subject of the first sentence.
Regarding the counterfactual implicature observed with the metaphysical reading, Condoravdi (2002: 85) held that the metaphysical reading of the sentence in 1, without yesterday, is semantically equivalent to the metaphysical reading of the sentence in 4, "except for the different temporal perspective of the modal": (4) John might win the game. .
The arrests in 2003 resemble previous episodes, except for the greater severity of the prison sentences, which are widely believed to have been imposed to keep popular opponents out of public life during this sensitive moment in history.
A man like that!" We can't be sure they are referring to Jocelin, except for the word "but" which begins this sentence: "But when the two deacons saw the dean looming over them, they fell to their knees".
