Example sentences of "but [Wh det] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a wide-ranging analysis of the world picture which almost all the old writers would have taken for granted but which we , our minds fed with different mythologies and sciences , would very easily mistake . |
| 2 | It was built in 1903 with a façade in what the Italians could call Liberty style , but which we would call Art Nouveau . |
| 3 | The facts are that the Palace of justice was built between 1935 and 1940 in a style that is known in Italy as Littoria , but which we would term Fascist . |
| 4 | The hypocrite offers the gull a surface falseness which he penetrates to discover ‘ a truth ’ , but which we know is another falseness . |
| 5 | In contrast to this , according to the emotivist thesis , the typical cause and effect of a statement like ‘ Personal affection is a great good ’ is not any kind of genuine belief , which could be true or false , but an emotional attitude of favouring personal affection , which each of us may find ourselves either sharing or otherwise , but which we can not properly call true or false ; it therefore has primarily an emotive rather than a descriptive meaning . |
| 6 | My sister reminds me of our isolation , the neighbours who fed us meat and sweets , the tea parties we went out to but which we were never allowed to return . |
| 7 | By the end of the book , " culture " has become a metaphor for some kind of Bradleyan unity to which we may aspire but which we can never reach ; idealism consorts oddly with Eliot 's sociology , however , and it is not at all clear if " culture " is a neutral term used to describe the whole way of life of a people or if it is being employed as a diagnostic tool to evaluate the various standards and aspirations of a society . |
| 8 | I felt the most awful failure , and thought that perhaps if we could try again — since the thing was done , the point of no return passed — we might arrange things better , somehow recapture the basis of feeling we had had , which should have been a perfect foundation for a love-affair , but which we had somehow bungled and thrown away . |
| 9 | Pioneering scientific work is now opening up the immense diversity of sensory worlds experienced by other creatures : extraordinary worlds which we may never be able to enter , but which we can at least start to appreciate through our awareness of animal " supersenses " . |
| 10 | Our responsibility is to provide you with the holiday we confirm , and this may not include special facilities which you request but which we can not guarantee . |
| 11 | Our galaxy and other galaxies , however , must contain a large amount of " dark matter " that we can not see directly , but which we know must be there because of the influence of its gravitational attraction on the orbits of stars in the galaxies . |
| 12 | Turning now to the income-related benefits , as the House knows , the uprating is , in this respect , based not on the full retail prices index , but on what is known as the Rossi index , which , in essence , is the RPI less housing costs but which we have this year brought more exactly into line with what the benefits are intended to cover by including in the calculation 20 per cent . |
| 13 | It reflects some current concerns , and also questions which do not arise specifically at the moment , but which we ought to realise may arise in the future . |
| 14 | However , to avoid irrelevant uncertainties that might result from relying on assumptions about particular situations , we offer in ( 5 ) examples that actually meet the unnecessarily strict requirement of inclusion on the type level , but which we might reasonably claim as sentences that could be used by ordinary speakers in the right circumstances : ( 5 ) ( a ) some of the Buddhists were sheltered in Islamic mosques ( b ) the carnivorous leopard has much larger teeth than an antelope ( c ) after the barren desert , Kano is like a garden 7.2 It will be immediately evident that the distinction between restrictive and non-restrictive does not concern any difference of intensional structure in the narrow sense , either in the relations involved , or in the nature of the elements related . |
| 15 | ‘ They were improvements designed to make the building 100pc perfect , but which we could take out to cut the £4.5m estimate back and still maintain safety , ’ said Mr Buxton . |
| 16 | THE COST ‘ We have an initiative which is still under wraps for the moment but which we will be taking during the election campaign , ’ he said . |
| 17 | But whatever we may take or reject from Freud , what I think we should not lose is the way in which he raises questions and problematises things which are sometimes taken for granted . |
| 18 | But whatever we call it , this sense that words do not just have their face-value meaning , but are to be critically interpreted as indicators of tone and attitude , is an essential part of James 's technique . |
| 19 | We have to be more creative , perhaps in the er press releases we put out , not churn one out every single day , that would be nonsensical , but whatever we do churn out , as a press release , it 's got to be relevant , and they will find interesting . |
| 20 | We do not live exactly as our parents lived but whatever we do now is only a modification of what was done before . |
| 21 | Judith Masterman , whose daughter Alison works in the orphanage , said : ‘ We are not aiming to provide everyone with a mattress but whatever we can get helps . |
| 22 | The exchange has roused the analyst to contributions that are firmer and more energy-consuming than those he generally vouchsafes : ‘ it 's not the past but what we make of the past that shapes our future and present . ’ |
| 23 | No one would deny that enterprise and competitiveness are important ; but what we see around us today is the elevation of self-interest as something to be applauded . |
| 24 | ‘ But what we do n't know , ’ Sam Weller told me , ‘ is the relevant importance of those factors ’ . |
| 25 | But what we argue is that all should have the right to put their case for asylum fairly and properly , and reasonably quickly . ’ |
| 26 | Macbeth , short and severely to the point , is not a play onto which you can get much spin , but what we are given here is a treatment devoid of ambiguity . |
| 27 | But what we really need is a sense of ourselves — which the French and Italians simply ooze . ’ |
| 28 | So the ideas are still very meaningful in our world , but what we are saying about the cross is this : that in this particular way and through this particular person , God chose to redeem humankind . |
| 29 | But what we find in the resurrection of Jesus is not something that originates from the natural processes of life , but something that constitutes a unique event . |
| 30 | But what we really get is we feel exposed . |