Example sentences of "but [Wh det] is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I do not believe those powers would be of use My Lords I er take the view that they would not have been abused by past Home Secretaries , no not by men like the late Tutor Reed or the Noble Lord Jenkins or the Noble Lord Callaghan , they would not be abused today by my Right Honourable Friend Mr Howard , I doubt if they would be abused by Mr Blair should he at some time become Home Secretary and I think we 're becoming slightly attached to an artificial argument that somehow or the other there is great respect for the local authorities , but which is not extended to the National Institutions of Government and to the Home Office and the Home Secretary . |
| 2 | A significant variance could be defined as one amounting to more than a given percentage of the budget but which is not explained by the general level of prices , i.e. inflation or deflation . |
| 3 | I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt . |
| 4 | In the language of sociobiology , " kinship " , outside the immediate bond of mother/infant and , perhaps , sibling/sibling , is a biological relationship which may be discovered by the research worker but which is not known to the actors in the scenario under observation . |
| 5 | However , there are other less ambitious examples of the kind of information which the accounts could provide about inputs but which is not provided by cash flow accounting . |
| 6 | These give us further grounds for thinking that there is some characteristic which is common to the postnominal attributives and to the predicative position of the adjective in a relative clause , but which is not found in the prenominal adjectives . |
| 7 | The next claim which constructivism makes is that centralsystem thinking emerges out of the organism 's interaction with the environment , an interaction that is initially a literal inter- action but which is later carried out internally , at least in the human case . |
| 8 | Roger Manvell 's The Film and the Public , published in 1955 , still held Brief Encounter in very high esteem , placing it in a chapter rather disingenuously called ‘ A miscellany of films ’ but which is clearly intended to signify a pantheon of cinematic greats . |
| 9 | This pattern has been repeated in Council Directive 92/56 on collective redundancies , which contains detailed extracts from three paragraphs of the Social Charter in its recitals , but which is again made under Article 100 , and therefore unanimously . |
| 10 | I believe that the Christian faith provides us with a unique perspective on matters of political economy which is not con fined to issues of personal honesty and motivation , but which is also related to the basic institutions and goals of our societies . |
| 11 | The letter it sends is to an attractive friend who goes about ‘ bagging birds ’ , and who belongs to a world in which the beautiful say yes to the beautiful and wildly misbehave , a world which is said to be ‘ described on Sundays only ’ , in papers like the News of the World — but which is also described in Take a girl like you . |
| 12 | Some people have an element of spirituality within the emotional aspects of life which should not be forgotten , but which is easily overlooked in a secular society . |
| 13 | Sub-optimality occurs when one department makes a decision which appears to be a good one , from the departmental point of view , but which is actually damaging to the organisation as a whole . |
| 14 | In other animals there is behaviour which benefits another individual , and moreover there is behaviour the end of which is to benefit another individual , in a sense of ‘ end ’ which requires a lot of work to make clear , but which is uncontentiously illustrated by behaviour the end of which is that the animal should take in food . |
| 15 | An office which is assiduous about publication and publicity , but which is often seen as outside the dialogues of current architectural concern in the USA , deserves a more judicious appraisal then it has received , here or elsewhere . |
| 16 | They may range from a brief mention of a thirteenth-century tithe barn near the manor house , to a fully detailed true-to-scale plan of a building as it existed in earlier times , but which is now changed . |
| 17 | When I say we must accept " the general outline of Darwinian theory " I do not mean that we must accept the dogma of gradualism which Darwin felt to be crucial but which is now becoming increasingly suspect . |
| 18 | But whatever is ultimately decided about where person , place and time deixis belong , there is little doubt that most aspects of discourse deixis and social deixis will lie outside the scope ofa truth-conditional semantics . |
| 19 | It is all very well to point out how much food is munched by an animal in order for it to develop a nice juicy back leg or plump shoulder , but what is rarely taken into consideration is the amount of fertile soil and poorly paid labour required to produce the well-fleshed habitués of vegetarian eateries . |
| 20 | For example it is well known that asthma and eczema are linked but what is frequently overlooked is the way that a person 's asthma can be bad at a time when their eczema is quiet and their eczema can be its worst when the asthma is quiet . |
| 21 | But what is not wanted is a housing estate , but the employment that is related to , not Greater York 's employment but the employment related to the level of development in the settlement . |
| 22 | But what is not stated or even suggested by the early Turkish sources is that Fahreddin Acemi succeeded Molla Yegan ; there is , in fact , nothing to connect the two except the fact that Molla Yegan succeeded to the and that Fahreddin Acemi became Mufti . |
| 23 | Some may feel that differences of interpretation are all very well in their way ( though the present writer would maintain that they are of first-rank importance ) , but what is really wanted is a correlation or two with data that can be subjected ( in principle ) to some basic observational test , such as " Is this grammatical or not ? " |
| 24 | But what is really happening in the youth justice teams around the country , and is it right to condemn the Criminal Justice Act so soon ? |
| 25 | But lets just notice two or three things in this particular interview , the first thing that we see and its so obvious is that the way of salvation is so wondrously simple , it could n't be easier , you know there are so many people who think it is hard to get saved , who think it is hard to come to Christ and to become a Christian , well the problem is you see the devil has blinded their eyes , they 've blinded the eyes of men and women , so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what is actually happened , Paul tells us in , in , in Carinthians in the first er , in to Carinthians in chapter four and verse four , he says the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of god , and there is this shroud , this covering , but the thing is god takes that away so that we can see and so its not difficult to become a Christian , it is not hard to get saved , sometimes as Christians we are guilty of making it difficult for people to become Christians , we put all sorts of rules in , we , we make them undergo various periods of er , of probation before we wer we 've were , were willing to call them Christians , remember the Philippine jailer he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was er in jail there with Silus the , the be , the tremendous earthquake and they were released all their vetoers was , were broken and the prisoners were all , could of escaped and the ja , the Philippine jailer he cries out a question that I 'm sure he does n't even know what he means when he calls it out , he 's not thinking of heaven , he 's not thinking of the future life , he 's not thinking of having his sins dealt with but he just cries out what must I do to be saved and the apostle Paul and he gets , opens the scrolls and he starts in genesis and he explains the plan of salvation and he tells him what he 's got to do and he explains all the requirements and then about three or four hours later the mans mind is completely blurred he does n't understand a word of it , its gone way beyond him |
| 26 | But what is still lacking is any general survey of the terrain . |