Example sentences of "but who [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you do not advertise more widely your vacancy will not come to the attention of other potential employees who may not be actively looking for a job but who might be attracted by an advertisement which clearly specifies someone like them . |
| 2 | Out of habit the Brigadier treated everybody as though they were local National Service boys who had grown up in the village and so knew every blade of grass as well as he did but who might be a bit hazy about certain family backgrounds and about things that had happened before their time . |
| 3 | So the issue becomes : How do we help a giant who is poorly , but who might get very angry with us if we annoy him ? |
| 4 | I did n't begin here , with you and Dad , I began with an unknown woman called Elaine , a girl really , and a father who is n't in New Zealand after all , but who might be in the next street , the next house . |
| 5 | Erm , I think it 's worth saying that er us j just reiterating on what councillor has just said and that is that I think most tenants are very well aware of the right to buy and er er the motion being unnecessary but what happens with the motion is that it possibly attracts people who really in many ways can not actually afford to buy er to take advantage of their rights but who might be persuaded by very persuasive tactics to do so . |
| 6 | They were too drunk and crude , I want one man , one master , who I can respect but who wo n't respect me , and who will tell me what to do . |
| 7 | HER contacts book was known to be extensive , but who would have thought Cynthia Payne 's network stretched to Austin , Texas . |
| 8 | But who would guess , for example , having read some of the Lydgate he quotes — |
| 9 | But who would want to issue now anyway ? |
| 10 | But who would bowl a beamer at nice John Major ? |
| 11 | One chieftain , Wittikind , fled north to take refuge with the Danes , a race hardly known to the Franks at that time , but who would later make inroads into the empire . |
| 12 | And as a child his own household included not only his father 's father but his mother 's grandmother , who spent most of her days hidden away ‘ in her own cabin ’ , but who would emerge on Sundays , always knitting a long stocking . |
| 13 | Just imagine having a mummy who 'd been a Brownie Guider but who would n't let you be a Brownie ! |
| 14 | Yet the Gay Lobby will not allow a line to be drawn by those of us who do not feel threatened by homosexuals but who would argue that sodomy is both unnatural , unhealthy and immoral at the very least . |
| 15 | There are , however , a lot of old soldiers who can not attend but who would welcome the chance to meet their old comrades . |
| 16 | Oh , it was n't like it seemed , but who would believe her ? |
| 17 | But who would deliver King the full count ? |
| 18 | There was no mention of his absent wife , whom he had not troubled to divorce , but who would claim her widow 's portion later . |
| 19 | The engineer with the irreverent sense of humour who would n't give houseroom to a defunct machine but who would carefully dismantle and put by any parts that might be of use later on would — this time next year — be helping to nourish the rose beds . |
| 20 | In the United Kingdom diploma-level courses are normally associated with either school-leavers or individuals already at work who are seeking career advancement whose academic qualifications are weak but who would benefit from an extensive course but one whose approach is related to skills acquisition rather than in-depth analytical studies . |
| 21 | It 's inedible , but who would want to bother anyway , since they are at most two inches high ! |
| 22 | Fine as he is , Ricci sounds tame and occasionally uncomfortable beside Jacha Heifetz in the Polonaises , but who would n't ? |
| 23 | Arrangements may have to be made for existing £6 membership who genuinely can not afford more but who would like to continue to receive the magazine . |
| 24 | But who would make up figures which are patently absurd ? |
| 25 | But who would think of refusing Lucy 's invitations , providing as they did the last vestige of a social occasion within the enclave ? |
| 26 | If someone ca n't read aloud competently , this does not mean he ca n't read at all : consider the number of us who could read French silently and understand it , but who would find it very difficult to " sound it out " and read it aloud . |
| 27 | In India and Burma the fundamental question was no longer if or when would the British give up , but who would inherit their legacy ? |
| 28 | But she also had alliances with people nearer her own age , notably with a wild young postgraduate architect , a hard-drinking , reckless , one-off character called Colin Lindsey , who was already provided with a wife and a baby , but who would nevertheless take his turn to sit on Esther 's beaded rug . |
| 29 | ‘ Ah , but who would want an old man like me who is not even English ! |
| 30 | ‘ But who would have the knowledge to do such a thing ? ’ |