Example sentences of "but [Wh det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The film as a whole was quite remarkable with Jean Harlow giving another of her stunning braless roles and with Mae Clark taking a grapefruit in the face in a scene which film historians have interpreted either as an act of sexual debasement or of sexual equality but which contemporary audiences just found thrilling . |
| 2 | Feminist psychology needs to deal with both the questions about the subject which traditional psychology is interested in , and the gender and other power relations which preoccupy feminists , but which traditional psychology neglects . |
| 3 | They were never importunate , never servile ; they never tried to lure Europeans into the kind of patron-client relationship which is often assumed to be vital to the functioning of the colonial psyche but which many Englishmen in fact found more annoying than gratifying . |
| 4 | It can give teachers more insights into the kinds of communication skills that school demands from children but which many children may not possess e.g. the ability to process context-independent speech , to use language for certain intellectual functions or to process certain kinds of written language ( see Perera , 1982 ) . |
| 5 | He chose a subject for his PhD — the idea of the Sublime in Romantic poetics — which sounded reassuringly serious to the traditionalists and off-puttingly dry to the Young Turks , but which neither party knew much about , so Charles was not drawn into the front-line controversy in his own research . |
| 6 | It is a great barn of a place which seats 5,000 but which that day was due to hold 2,500 . |
| 7 | While the whole theological context of that chapter was important , we may note here especially the stress on the priesthood of all the faithful — a theme that Luther made much of , but which Catholic tradition had downgraded ever since . |
| 8 | But which male leads could get away with it ? |
| 9 | Clearly no more than 120,000 gallons — but which 120,000 gallons ? |
| 10 | To put Saussure 's point in a different way , we can take as an illustration an area of language to which he did not pay particular attention , but which subsequent theorists have considered significant : that of colour terminology . |
| 11 | One type of enquiry which is slow in list processing but which inverted files drill with much more efficiently is illustrated by the example : ‘ Is there a lecturer with a name Perkins on the staff ? ’ . |
| 12 | It can also be suggested that it was contradicted by another case heard shortly afterwards but which concerned homeworkers not casual workers ( the " Gardiner and Taverna case " ) which was resolved very differently . |
| 13 | These are features that simple word processors were never designed to incorporate but which low-end desktop publishing packages find simple . |
| 14 | The figure is the amount said to be raised from the sale of council homes under the Conservative 's right-to-buy legislation but which local authorities are not allowed to spend . |
| 15 | Lord Haw-Haw , the British traitor who goes here by the name of Froelich , but whose real name is William Joyce and whose voice millions of English listen to on the radio every night , and his English wife were at the party , but I avoided them . ’ |
| 16 | It is a kind of debunk manquée , not the whole hog sort that keeps you on the edge of your chair waiting for yet more astounding revelations , but in a snider kind — like those Sunday supplement interviews which are dressed up as journalistic frankness , but whose real purpose is barb and innuendo . ’ |
| 17 | In a typical seventeenth-century image , the world was likened to a watch whose face is presented to our five senses but whose real workings are governed by springs and wheels , hidden from sight behind the back . |
| 18 | But whose real job is picking up information . ’ |
| 19 | Even those who do not share his political opinions readily pay their tribute to the range of his intellect and the graciousness of his character ; more remarkable still , even those whose intellectual qualities are the equal of his , but whose moral qualities have degenerated in contact with the sordid atmosphere of politics , never speak of him with an affected amusement as a religious bigot or a narrow-minded moralist ; in the remarks of these latter politicians I often detect a tone of rather wistful regret , as if they were conscious in themselves of a loss for which the world they have gained has by no means compensated . |
| 20 | AIB is too small an organisation to have room for the pure academic whose theoretical knowledge may be most profound but whose practical knowledge is limited . |
| 21 | While only a few farmers could cope on this scale , there was a growing body of men whose individual holdings might have been small but whose collected wealth in terms of stock was vast , although sadly beyond accurate calculation by later historians . |
| 22 | The concept of excluded investment activities serves to remove some of the uncertainty in respect of industrial and commercial companies which may be involved in investment activities but whose mainstream business is not in the financial services sector . |
| 23 | In recent years , however , analysis based upon a given concept of ideology has been complemented by other projects , some of which also analyse buildings as repressive mechanisms or authoritarian representations ( e.g. Foucault 1977b ) , but whose overarching concepts such as ‘ power ’ or ‘ discourse ’ imply a still greater distance between interests and representations , and thereby a greater commitment to objectivism . |
| 24 | And frequently , I am prepared to take patients who are only physically ailing and frail , but whose mental faculties remain unimpaired . ’ |
| 25 | FOR THOSE who are n't aware , Jack Dee is the stand-up comedian who might look like a vampire masquerading as a stockbroker but whose singular style of delivery — deadpan sneers , disbelieving snorts of mirthless laughter , and , most refreshingly of all , blatant contempt for 99 per cent of the human race — is not only a timely call for the return of misanthropy to comedy it 's also brilliantly funny . |
| 26 | The concluding case study concerns a teacher whose decision to change was strongly influenced by external factors but whose personal enthusiasm and commitment sustained the change in classroom practice . |
| 27 | It is easy to reject someone who is very suitable but whose first appearance is off-putting . |
| 28 | Their intentions are a far cry from DEC which is also trying to position its competitive Alpha chip as a mainstream merchant part but whose internal documents reportedly project a total of only around 200,000 to 300,000 Alpha being built next year . |
| 29 | Their intentions are a far cry from those of Digital Equipment Corp , which is also trying to position its competing Alpha chip as a mainstream merchant part but whose internal documents are said to project a total of only around 200,000 to 300,000 Alphas being made next year . |
| 30 | The portfolios for Industry , Agriculture , Public Works , Commerce and Finance were entrusted to people whose loyalty to the regime was , of course , unimpeachable , but whose political utility lay in their possession of technical skills , not in their allegiance to any particular ideological current , nor in having good connections with the traditional oligarchy of large , wealthy landowners . |