Example sentences of "but [pron] [be] the [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he is the stuff which above all others makes a great people . |
| 2 | The ability to write clearly and well is a tool of the trade and a very necessary one , but it is the idea which you have that will make your advertising stand out from the rest . |
| 3 | But it is the differences which are the primary consideration in premarriage counselling . |
| 4 | This seems mild enough compared to the everyday manipulation of today 's multi-track techniques ; but it is the exception which proves the rule . |
| 5 | Not exactly subtle , considering the case 's complexity , but it is the verdict which no doubt still lingers in people 's minds months after the convictions were quashed . |
| 6 | But it is the cinema which has blended all these different forms together to create potent and resonant imagery , a visual and aural imagery of powerful locomotives , billowing smoke , clattering rails , and melancholy train whistles , allied to the ideal dramatic potential of a mixed group of passengers thrown together by circumstance for the duration of the journey . |
| 7 | The rhetoric was always more extreme than the practice but it is the rhetoric which has persisted . |
| 8 | Processes of genetic inheritance are only a part , at the physical level , of a multidimensional formative and creative system at work , but it is the mind which automatically forms the patterns which lead a soul into its new body . |
| 9 | But it was the Church which really fascinated me . |
| 10 | But it was the peace which people remembered , rather than the quarrel . |
| 11 | But it was the horses which decided the issue , as Ramsay had calculated they would . |
| 12 | It was only a small picture-framing shop which sold prints and posters and more-tasteful-than-average lampshades , but it was the name which held unpleasant associations for Graham : Stocks , That name chilled him . |
| 13 | The teachers in our study did use strategies which came into the first category , but it was the second which was the key to understanding the all-pervasive quality of the collaboration and the self-sufficiency of the children which had so impressed us , allowing the teacher uninterrupted periods of time for working with individuals and groups . |
| 14 | But it was the view which drew her , like a magnet . |
| 15 | But it was the contents which counted . |
| 16 | But it was the eyes which caused Arthur 's bowels to move slightly . |
| 17 | The Sun warmed the bones , but it was the seeds which grew , feeding on the marrow in all the bones , which had cracked with the frost . |
| 18 | But it was the railway which pressed forward the industrialization of the United States and of parts of Europe and which confirmed the continental power of Europeans in North America , Asia , Australasia , and Africa . |