11.   Bill T. Jones is the exception who proves the rule.

12.   Brady may be the exception that proves the rule.

13.   Against this backdrop, acts of kindness and self-sacrifice resonate like a bass drum, serving as the exceptions that prove the rule.

14.   Brian Maisonneuve appeared poised as a substitute Sunday, but he might be among the exceptions that prove the rule.

15.   But he is the exception that proves the rule.

16.   But Johnson is an exception that proves the rule.

17.   But that exception proves the rule.

18.   But they prove the rule.

19.   Exceptions, of course, that prove the rule.

20.   Few practitioners of one form do so well at another, Shakespeare and Thomas Hardy being two exceptions that prove the rule.