Example sentences of "but which [be] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether the image of an ice cream cone or a hamburger is good or bad is not too big an issue but when it comes to nuclear weapons and political events which affect not only the happiness of countless people but which are also a matter of life and death , does it help to avoid value judgements ? |
| 2 | In many of the analogous medieval fabliaux of a miller and two clerks , the one clerk 's designs upon the daughter are motivated by simple lust , because she is beautiful , and involve her deception too , as she is given , in the dark , what she is told is a gold ring but which is simply an iron ring off an andiron in the fireplace . |
| 3 | It eventually arrives at a short recapitulation of the initial music which , in its turn , breaks into a closing ‘ burst ’ of music which does sound like late eighteenth-century wind music , but which is actually a stylistic pastiche . |
| 4 | The antagonist as a religious believer is right to assert that the moral code comes from a sacred source , which he calls God , but which is really the Primal Father . |
| 5 | The walls surrounding the courtyard used to protect what was once a fortress but which is now a youth hostel . |
| 6 | I lifted Harry until he was sitting on the walkway and then , still gripping him tightly , wriggled up beside him so that we were both sitting there with our heads wholly above water , which may not sound a great advance but which was probably the difference between life and death . |
| 7 | With that as its dominant posture , particular schemes could fail and it would still retain and perhaps even enhance its support , if it could claim that it pursued a course which was known to be difficult but which was still the ideologically sound thing to do . |
| 8 | Its three tall windows gave a view of the stone terrace and the double flight of steps going down to what had once been a lawn and formal gardens , but which was now a half-acre of neglected grass , bounded to the west by the brick annexe of the Vehicle Examination Department , and to the east by the old stable block , now converted into garages . |
| 9 | Could that be , perhaps , the Isla Esperanza and , beyond , the much larger Hanover Island , Isla Jorge Montt and the chunk of rock the Royal Navy ( who found it ) once called Cambridge Island , but which was now the Isla Diego de Almagro ? |
| 10 | At the end of his first week back , Baldwin went to stay at Cumberland Lodge , in Windsor Great Park , only a few miles front Fort Belvedere , a bijou residence which justified its martial name only by looking like a toy castle , but which was nonetheless the King 's main base throughout his brief reign . |
| 11 | It led across a sinister patch of ground known as the Smiling Meadow , which looked just like a pleasant grassy meadow of brilliant green , but which was actually a treacherous tract of shifting marsh , partly waterlogged and with only a single narrow path of firm ground across it . |