Example sentences of "but [Wh det] [be] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , it is that there exist people willing to pay prices lower than Pm , but which are in excess of the marginal costs of providing additional units . |
| 2 | By the Wittenbergplatz U-Bahn station there is something which looks like a very large public information notice , which in one sense it is , but which is in fact a memorial . |
| 3 | Indirect discrimination against a married person is similar in concept to indirect sex discrimination and may arise when a condition or requirement is applied equally to married and unmarried persons of the same sex but which is in fact discriminatory in its effect on married persons . |
| 4 | Using her clearance codes , Reynard skipped nimbly into the data terraces he visualised as a vast graveyard , but which were in fact the accumulated records of all known people in Arcady , all employees , current and late , of Tech-Green , all public workers in the country , all suspect characters and a host of other subsections of humanity . |
| 5 | He had ascertained during daylight that the lavatory was diagonally across the passage from his room door , and , as the passage was now unlit and he was unable to find the light switch , he crossed the passage in the dark and , by feeling his way , came to a door which he believed to be that of the lavatory , but which was in fact a door leading to the basement . |
| 6 | But what is beyond question is that , in the post-contact era , it was Hawaii that colonized other countries with surfing . |
| 7 | We may argue about the timescale of change or its effects on our lives , but what is beyond doubt is that change , massive and fundamental , is taking place in the way we acquire , use and are influenced by information . |
| 8 | But what is of interest here is that there is no difference between the three inner-city areas in the use of initial clear [ l ] . |
| 9 | But what is of interest in the present context is the particular ramifications of these developments within the British social formation , i.e. the weakening hold of the ‘ middle class ’ designation within popular ideology , and of the middle class/Tory nexus . |
| 10 | Of course , in such cases , rulers tend to have different life-styles from their subjects , but what is at issue is that they do not have a privileged access to property , especially to the means of production , an essential element of Marx 's and Engels 's definition of a class . |
| 11 | Mr Gray said the fact of the repatriations from Allied-occupied Austria in May and June 1945 was accepted , but what was at issue was Lord Aldington 's role , and the allegation that he knew that they would be killed . |
| 12 | We found that practices were very diverse , that people had different impressions , not only of what ought to be done , but what was in fact being done . |
| 13 | Grant forced himself to hold the challenging stare of the glittering black eyes for what seemed an age , but what was in fact only a few seconds . |