Example sentences of "[noun sg] but which " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without border checks , traders may be tempted to claim exemption from VAT on goods ostensibly destined for export but which , in fact , never leave the country or are reimported . |
| 2 | And of course it 's heat of the sun which strikes the other side but which misses our side . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If one takes the narrow definition of manufacturing investment , which excludes a range of investment that is made by manufacturing companies in services that no longer count as manufacturing investment but which they used to do in-house , the average for the past six years was £10.9 billion — much higher than under the previous Labour Government . |
| 5 | I have the greatest difficulty in finding the remotest sense in the policy of a party which says that it is in favour of investment but which goes out of its way by every possible means to penalise saving . |
| 6 | Two other characteristics which mostly attracted indirect mention but which , nevertheless , were important included : purity , in the sense of not containing other substances ; dependability in the sense that the product can always be relied upon to meet the mothers ' standard ( viz softness , non-irritant , pure ) . |
| 7 | This was the kind of observation which he was inclined to drop with apparent casualness but which stuck in the mind . |
| 8 | Or in the same general category there are institutions like some of those in broadcasting ( in Great Britain the BBC ) which depend on one form or another of public revenue but which direct their own production . |
| 9 | The second problem is that even if we are able to provide functionality with replacement materials , we have to place them within , and thereby create an interface with , the tissues of the body which are extremely aggressive to any invading agent but which are also exquisitely sensitive to their presence . |
| 10 | As for the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea , signed at Montego Bay on 10 December 1982 ( Cmnd. 8941 ) , of which the Community is a signatory but which has not yet entered into force , it contains provisions similar to article 5(1) of the Geneva Convention of 1958 ( see articles 91 and 94 ) . |
| 11 | The first two are physiological measures which are related to arousal but which the driver may not actually be directly aware of . |
| 12 | The word ‘ involuntary ’ is therefore used merely to distinguish these killings from ones which have the necessary intent for murder but which are reduced to manslaughter by one of the doctrines just considered , such as provocation or diminished responsibility . |
| 13 | The budget proposal was also assailed for including measures which had been suggested by the Reagan adminstration but which had been abandoned after their rejection by Congress . |
| 14 | This suggests an important point which will be taken up in detail in the final chapter but which should be mentioned here . |
| 15 | It is important to distinguish between such lexical analysis of uncontrolled terms in thesis titles , ( which has not been carried out in any detail in the present study but which is one of the factors analysed in a paper in preparation by the author ) , and the subject classification carried out by Rolfe , Will and in the Laming list . |
| 16 | The problem with this definition is that it neglects other chemically and biochemically responsive sensors which lack a biolayer but which share not only similar functional principles , but offer equivalent analytical advantages . |
| 17 | HCRC is one of several departments in the University interested in ‘ neural networks ’ , a style of computational architecture which is inspired by psychology and neuroscience but which engineers are now incorporating into their artefacts . |
| 18 | In Manchester , the Clyne House nursery school , then occupied by the military authorities , was also severely damaged , and the main school building was hit by a bomb which went through its roof but which fortunately failed to explode . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In relation to nationalised industries , it is commonplace to vest in a particular Minister of the Crown a power to issue general directives as to the running of the industry in question but this is again nothing more than a matter of organisational preference ; not , of course a preference which is a matter of caprice but which is based on notions of the best procedures to attain the objective in view . |
| 21 | Hence , the increasing complexity of the flow can be interpreted as the result of a sequence of instabilities , each giving rise to a new pattern which is stable for some Rayleigh number range but which itself becomes unstable at higher Ra . |
| 22 | It enables a voice to be given to interest groups which ought to be heard and , possibly , even exercise influence but which otherwise would lack a sufficient say in the affairs of the nation . |
| 23 | The actions of political forces and corporate bodies , within the resistant medium of social collectivities over which they have some influence but which they can not shape ex nihilo , may either conserve or transform in various ways the system of economic class relations . |
| 24 | 8.2 If the Publisher is able to identify important opportunities for sale of the Work but which involve high commercial risk then the Publisher will pursue these opportunities only after written agreement with the Proprietor . |
| 25 | Blanketing everything is something which in other places is known as a sea fret but which in Redcar is called a Cleveland cocktail sling together two parts ICI , one British Steel and another of general fug and serve it up stirred not shaken . |
| 26 | The flickering patterns of the light made her face seem insubstantial ; like something you might glimpse in a dream but which , when you came closer or held a clear light up to see it better , would fade or change back to its true form . |
| 27 | Cataloguers are assisted by the Name authorities ( cumulative microfiche edition ) which lists the forms of names and corporate headings that might be used in subject cataloguing but which are not shown in the list . |
| 28 | By contrast , Chile 's Ladeco , in which Iberia has a 35% stake but which it does not manage , is in the black . |
| 29 | Some builders , as we have seen , working later than Cristofori , put in their actions something resembling a check but which could not function as a true check . |
| 30 | You will be aware of the special report from the Select Committee on Health which I believe will be automatically referred to the Privileges Committee but which , at the moment , is the property of this House . |