Example sentences of "[noun] but [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police said David had been to a pal 's engagement party at a nearby pub but how he was killed remained a mystery . |
| 2 | Parents wish to see not just how their child is doing but how he or she is doing when related to a grading benchmark . |
| 3 | Then when we came out we s went around London to see the sights but the decorations but why we went I did n't think anything to them at all this year . |
| 4 | The new Railtrack authority has responsibility for rail infrastructure but how it interlinks with Eurorail and the private sector is as yet unclear . |
| 5 | Our priority must now be to consider anew not only the proliferation of nuclear weapons but how we can reverse that trend , which is so at odds with the end of the cold war . |
| 6 | It ran into the back of this motorway maintenance vehicle that was parked on the hard shoulder and er just burst into flames but how they can say they died instantly I do n't know . |
| 7 | Mr. Kemp is entitled to his opinions but why he chooses to express them in such flippant and dismissive manner is puzzling . |
| 8 | They locate the category of ‘ knowledge ’ in a social context rather than an epistemological one ; it is not the validity of knowledge but how it is used that is of importance to the sociology of knowledge . |
| 9 | Fergie may well have bought a cut diamond at cut price but how he fits in remains a poser . |
| 10 | But many of us saw it as an approach which emphasised the need to allow the faith of Christ to be incarnated within particular culture and Sir Paul , the former Archbishop of New Zealand took the same stand point as a Maori , in his own address and called delegates present to speak and act as people of hope and to respond sensitively to economic and environment progility and isolation , not only in the Pacific but wherever they are . |
| 11 | His attention settled on the ducks on the lake but whenever he got near they fled in panic to the shore and sheltered under bushes and trees where he could not reach them . |
| 12 | Mass stranding of whales are quite common , as in East Anglia last autumn But why they happen is still a mystery |
| 13 | And her mind did n't question how she had got into this situation but how she was going to get out of it . |
| 14 | He was not much older than Peter and he looked puzzled , as if wondering not only how to end this conversation but how he had begun it in the first place . |