Example sentences of "but [pron] be [art] [noun] which " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | The rhetoric was always more extreme than the practice but it is the rhetoric which has persisted . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | But it is an idea which has succeeded . |
| 35 | The criterion-referencing of assessments is not an essential feature of graded tests , but it is an approach which has been strongly recommended because it is intended to make clearer the targets which pupils need to aim for and to provide information on achievements for parents , teachers and employers . |
| 36 | The alienation of groups among the younger voters has perhaps received too much publicity but it is an attitude which is shared to some degree by other sections of the community . |
| 37 | But it is an agreement which is " restrictive of trade " in this sense , that it requires a man to give his services and wares to one person only for a long term of years to the exclusion of all others . |
| 38 | That it has not proved possible to squeeze our resources further in order to accomplish this is cause for regret , but it is an aim which I am confident that all of my successors will seek to achieve . |
| 39 | Negative interest rate , as exercised by Swiss bankers , is not at this stage suggested , but it is an option which Swiss experience would help us to achieve if needed in the future . |
| 40 | But it 's a technique which can be used in many different ways , for example : |
| 41 | Elstir 's paintings persuade Marcel of their truth , but it 's a truth which is different from the intellectual truth which he first brought to his initial contemplation of those paintings , and Marcel says that in this way , by his art , Elstir frees us from the cramping tyranny of the intellect , by painting , and again I quote , ‘ by painting some unusual picture of a familiar object . |
| 42 | But it 's a theory which does n't give us an special or privileged role or position in this origin . |
| 43 | Thus most forest and tundra peoples sacrificed reindeer , but it was a dog which was killed ( and eaten ) by those peoples ( Nanai , Ulcha , Nivkh and Koryak ) who used dog-teams for transport , while the sacrificial animal of the Buryats , Yakuts and other Turkic peoples was the horse . |
| 44 | But it was a control which required active defence , to which the Cinque Ports contributed a good deal , particularly in the late fourteenth century . |
| 45 | His dark face usually held a cool austereness but it was a severity which , fast as quicksilver , could melt into warmth and charm . |
| 46 | Its essential features had few clear and unqualified expressions , but it was a civilization which had come to be distinguished from others by the emphasis it placed on the individual , by its increasing separation of social and political institutions , by its material wellbeing , and by its growing rationality . |
| 47 | But it was a torment which had to be seen and analysed . |
| 48 | In response to an appeal by the Union des Syndicats des Travailleurs du Niger ( USTN ) on May Day 1990 for the introduction of a multiparty system , Mamadou Dagra , the Minister of Civil Service and Labour , said that this was not excluded by Niger 's current political system , but it was an issue which should not be pursued with haste . |
| 49 | But it was an age which saw the slow , sure , and steady progress of social improvement and it was an age of hope , of optimistic belief in the future , unashamed aspiration for better days and better conditions in the world . |
| 50 | Yes but it was an aim which I 'm sure I I would , alright alright |
| 51 | But it was the Church which really fascinated me . |
| 52 | But it was the peace which people remembered , rather than the quarrel . |
| 53 | But it was the horses which decided the issue , as Ramsay had calculated they would . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | But it was the view which drew her , like a magnet . |
| 57 | But it was the contents which counted . |
| 58 | But it was the eyes which caused Arthur 's bowels to move slightly . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | 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 . |