Example sentences of "but [Wh det] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government is getting much better value for its money , he claims , from Jobclubs which offer the unemployed services such as free telephones and confidence-boosting sessions , but which eschew training . |
| 2 | Dalmatian architects and sculptors developed a style which built on the Romanesque tradition but which blended elements from the later Gothic and Renaissance styles . |
| 3 | The company , which has a major share stake in Sky 's rival British Satellite Broadcasting but which rents receiver equipment for Rupert Murdoch 's operation , said around 30,000 dishes a month are being sold or rented . |
| 4 | A natural monopoly is sustainable if there is no vector of prices and associated vector of outputs which allow an incumbent 's total costs to be at least covered by revenues but which make entry unattractive . |
| 5 | I offered to make a sculpture which related to the Holocaust but which had elements of hope in it that such an event should never happen again . |
| 6 | A large proportion of the Company 's employees work outside the United Kingdom and the directors believe that it is appropriate to establish share option schemes for those employees which broadly mirror the UK schemes but which take account of the laws , securities requirements and tax regimes in the countries where the employees live and work . |
| 7 | I mean perhaps it could take the form of Adult Attendance Centres , but erm we need something which is seen to be punitive but which falls sort of full deprivation of erm liberty . |
| 8 | There are , however , further areas where co-operation is possible , but which require agreement on policy at a higher level , and yet other possibilities which would involve additional institutions . |
| 9 | Using that famed double standard which made it acceptable for men to indulge in chance conquests , but which castigated women , Vitor would now associate her with casual sex and loose morals . |
| 10 | She removed the clinging pink sweater , made famous by the Hollywood Oomph Girl , Lana Turner but which made Sylvia look the part of a streetwalker , and stripped herself of the gaudy , lace-edged cami-knickers she wore beneath . |
| 11 | Governments may intervene in the railways in a way that undermines managerial autonomy and responsibility , but which makes sense from the point of view of political symbols and messages about productivity and efficiency ; this will become clearer from the case studies in later chapters . |
| 12 | I do not understand how we are supposed to have a system which deals best with the most difficult parts of the Community but which makes matters worse in Scotland and Wales , but that is what the scheme does . |
| 13 | She heard her father exclaim , " My soul to the Devil , she will not ! " which brought forth a gabble of Portuguese from the visitors that was too fast for Sara to understand but which turned Maria Candida as white as a sheet . |
| 14 | She only knew that from the moment she had stepped on to Danish soil she 'd been caught up in circumstances over which she had no control , but which appeared moment by moment to be leading her further from her original purpose . |
| 15 | Given the commitment in the citizens charter to parental choice in education , will the Prime Minister agree to meet a small delegation of parents from William Gladstone school which has an excellent academic record and an expanding roll but which faces closure as Brent council wishes to sell the school because of its site value ? |
| 16 | Modules might then be designed which deal separately with each question but which have elements in common in respect to underlying aspects of appraisal . |
| 17 | They are provided by raising money from the public for a state-run charity , contributions to which are voluntary but which publishes guidelines for self-assessment for those who wish to use them . |
| 18 | are managed by boards of governors , whose constitution varies from school to school , but which include representatives of parents and teachers , and sometimes of the DENI or an Education and Library Board . |
| 19 | On Easter Monday an event takes place which has little to do with traditional Easter activities , but which has associations with a very old May custom , as we shall see . |
| 20 | Apart from the victory at Halidon Hill , which in retrospect was of great military significance but which gave Edward only a temporary and illusory supremacy , the war did little to enhance Edward III 's military reputation . |
| 21 | Resorting to personal ties to survive or advance is a mechanism which has been used to some effect over the generations , but which prevents people turning to organisations or political activity which might , in the long run , prove more effective in solving their problems . |
| 22 | The ANC at that time had very close links to the African Mine Workers ' Union , the largest group of whose members were Bemba , but which included members of tribes from all over Zambia , as well as from Tanganyika and Nyasaland . |
| 23 | The systematic treatment of modus as trust is a feature first of the Severan period , a movement which began , as Gordian describes , with trusts of freedom but which gained momentum and spread to other types of trust as well . |
| 24 | Section 231 requires information specified in Schedule 5 to be given in notes to the accounts regarding what are referred to in the headings to the section and the Schedule as ‘ related undertakings ’ — an expression which the Act does not define but which includes parent and subsidiary undertakings , associated undertakings , joint ventures , and undertakings in which the company has a substantial holding . |
| 25 | This is the difference between seeing growth as depicted by a statistical average on an ascending curve , or as a trend line indicating upwards motion and growth but which includes decline and ascent combined . |
| 26 | But what had Victor made of it ? |
| 27 | Ah , but what had movements could she do … horse riding perhaps … |
| 28 | Every bit of her shied away from the idea , but what had Terry Lewis to gain from lying when she could find out the truth ? |
| 29 | Her own domestic incompetence ( which was indeed extreme , but what had Edgar expected from a wife with an upbringing like hers ? ) , |
| 30 | But what thrilled Mrs Simmons even more than winning with these photographs was the fact that , in an after-dinner speech , top European photographer Hans Schenkel highly praised another of her works . |