Example sentences of "[noun] but [Wh det] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The word ‘ involuntary ’ is therefore used merely to distinguish these killings from ones which have the necessary intent for murder but which are reduced to manslaughter by one of the doctrines just considered , such as provocation or diminished responsibility . |
| 2 | In relation to nationalised industries , it is commonplace to vest in a particular Minister of the Crown a power to issue general directives as to the running of the industry in question but this is again nothing more than a matter of organisational preference ; not , of course a preference which is a matter of caprice but which is based on notions of the best procedures to attain the objective in view . |
| 3 | NCM has now developed , with some help from my company , a domestic credit policy which follows traditional lines but which is written in plain English ( ie with little insurance jargon ) . |
| 4 | Tax-paying investors will , other things being equal , prefer bonds which have a low coupon but which are expected to show a capital appreciation . |
| 5 | However , the term ‘ disease ’ is slightly unfortunate in this context because it conjures up notions of a ‘ cause ’ that has little or nothing to do with the natural state of the organism but which is imposed on it , having a discontinuous effect ; as , for example , in infectious diseases . |
| 6 | A user can optionally specify a set of ‘ sleeping probes ’ , which are ignored when ordering the clones but which are output next to the probes used to order the clones . |
| 7 | Yearly tenancies held at rack rents ( i.e. rents that were not fixed by custom but which were negotiated by the landlord and tenant ) were common for the smaller farms and cottages and in the Midlands in particular they were usual for any property other than a freehold . |
| 8 | The Buddhist intelligentsia associated it with beef eating , gambling and the consumption of arrack , activities which were frowned upon by those influenced by Buddhist revivalist ideas but which were perceived as regrettably common among the masses . |
| 9 | Here we describe plutonic and volcanic rocks from the Cordillera Blanca complex in Peru , which have characteristics of the high-Al TTD suite but which were produced above a subduction zone containing a 60-Myr-old slab . |
| 10 | He was wearing a variation of court dress — a coat of midnight blue which had no fastenings but which was secured by a sash of the same colour — which indicated that he had spent the morning in council with the civil servants who were charged with overseeing the administration of some aspect of the government . |
| 11 | Well , it may be a catchy phrase but what was announced as COSE — Common Open Software Environment — was n't ‘ Unified Unix ’ — not philosophically , spiritually or literally . |
| 12 | There are also a large number of agencies and bodies which are not actually part of central government departments but which are funded by central government and staffed by civil servants and which perform public functions : examples include the Equal Opportunities Commission , the Police Complaints Authority , the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and prison authorities . |
| 13 | The four tower galleries , which are not uniformly successful in their proportions but which are distinguished by the soft ambient lighting concealed within the beautiful ribbed vaults ( there is no natural light ) , will contain masterpieces of European and American art arranged floor by floor in a broadly chronological progression from Delaunay and Chagall through Mondrian and Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art . |
| 14 | Japanese has two suffixes , -wa and -ga , the functions of which are explained in different ways by different linguists but which are said to mark , among other things , topic and non-topic respectively . |
| 15 | Secondly , the purchaser will wish to protect itself in the sale agreement against any risks which it was unable to identify during the negotiations but which are discovered after completion and to ensure it is compensated against these by the vendor . |
| 16 | a share which pays an annual dividend of 20p but which is expected to grow by 5% p.a. for the foreseeable future . |
| 17 | Prescribed themes can be introduced in any order but whatever is studied in history is constantly related to the time-line ( see Figure 2.5 for one example ) . |
| 18 | Time and time again the reviewers in Early music have attacked ideas and suppositions of a kind that characterize much modern culture but which were strengthened in the 1960s : that one should be allowed to do what one wishes without the interference of authority ; that every kind of self-expression is equally valid because it is self-expression , and so on . |
| 19 | I would like to develop a particular thesis to explain the contemporary crisis of capitalism which incorporates certain of the insights derived from all these approaches but which is anchored in a Christian world-view . |
| 20 | Other field crops included peas and beans before the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries and , later on , numerous new introductions , some of which would have been grown earlier as garden produce but which were grown on a larger scale from the seventeenth and particularly eighteenth centuries . |
| 21 | The plan is in the form of a Greek cross with arms of equal length and it is based upon the design of the famous Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople which had been begun by Constantine and rebuilt by Justinian but which was destroyed in 1463 . |