Example sentences of "but [Wh det] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results indicated overwhelmingly that people are nowadays looking for a colour that has the versatility of white , but which displays its own unique warmth and character . |
| 2 | Wallpapering your PC Next in our flying tour of these low cost packages comes Wallpaper Art Gallery for Windows , ( WAGWIN ) a title which ostensibly is single use , but which lends itself to one or two other purposes as well . |
| 3 | Finally a framework which stretches back to distant school days but which retains its validity is that your presentation must have a clear beginning , a middle and an end . |
| 4 | Some of you build a personality which you believe the world wants you to be , but which belies your real self . |
| 5 | It sometimes helps if you choose something you have not done before either , but which interests you , so that you can share the activity on equal terms . |
| 6 | For the searcher who goes on and comes to believe , this is the only possible starting point — a sense of need which may range from a mild discomfort to a deep conviction , but which spurs him to look for a solution beyond himself . |
| 7 | Ours is n't a century like the eighteenth century which is impossible to love but which has its own integrity , an identity . |
| 8 | The soft yellow light which looks so gentle to you but which sears my guts . |
| 9 | And of course it 's heat of the sun which strikes the other side but which misses our side . |
| 10 | Toughened glass is glass which has been heat treated to make it four to five times stronger than normal glass , but which gives it the characteristic that , should it break , it does so in harmless tiny fragments rather than the dangerous slivers associated with normal glass . |
| 11 | ‘ But whatever happens we 're providing a platform for the season that is exciting . |
| 12 | But whatever happens they are not going to break me as a man . |
| 13 | The ‘ assumptions ’ of the topmost box can include more than experience puts there , but whatever finds its way in has to be transformed by deduction into predictions which can be tested by observation . |
| 14 | But what gets me most is when somebody dies who has n't really lived . |
| 15 | but what gets me down is not the royal bit , it 's the family bit ! |
| 16 | ‘ Money is my motivation , but what keeps me at the top is that I 'm petrified of losing . |
| 17 | But what fills me with fury is not only the massive betrayal of the women he raped who will probably be traumatised for the rest of their lives . |
| 18 | Stanley can see through Blanche 's lies and deception but what annoys him is the pretence that Blanche puts on pretending to be better than him and taunting him by calling him a ‘ Polak ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ They said they 'd send the visas to Tam , but what bothers me is how they can do that . |
| 20 | Erm , I 'd like to , I 'm glad you picked up the children looked after by the local authority , but what bothers me is the children in families that are causing concern rather than for those that are actually erm , in care . |
| 21 | But what persuades me that we have not heard the last of Havel the writer is that he combines a total commitment to social freedom and individual responsibility with an extraordinary ironic detachment . |
| 22 | You see a thousand colours but what avails it if your heart is grey ? |
| 23 | It 's what we have fun doing , but what drives us crazy also . ’ |
| 24 | But what does their ‘ vision ’ amount to ? |
| 25 | But what does her instructor think ? |
| 26 | But what does it mean ? |
| 27 | But what does it signify ? |
| 28 | ‘ But what does it all add up to ? ’ |
| 29 | Nutrition is a word everyone uses these days but what does it mean ? |
| 30 | ‘ But what does it all mean ? ’ perhaps , or , ‘ For God 's sake , we 're all going to die ! ’ |