Example sentences of "but [Wh det] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were followed or interspersed by a windswept Starmer-Smith standing on the touchline , microphone in hand , sporting a selection from his extensive wardrobe of scarves and neckties , and promising delights which were sure to come next week but which had unaccountably failed to materialise this week . |
| 2 | A happy precedent already exists : three years ago the Academy agreed to abandon a series of spelling changes that it had proposed in 1975 , but which had never found their way into common usage . |
| 3 | Top administrators in many countries are also selected on the basis of educational credentials which are not apparently ‘ relevant ’ for the tasks they are to perform but which serve chiefly to exclude more uncouth potential rivals . |
| 4 | The idea , conceived by Chancellor Helmut Kohl and endorsed last month in talks between the German leader and US president Bill Clinton , is an attempt to revive the strong transatlantic ties that existed immediately after the Second World War but which have steadily declined as that post-war generation ages . |
| 5 | Because of that , the CITB has had to introduce various schemes using its own investment to tide it over what it believed at the outset would be a short recession , but which has now become a very deep and long recession . |
| 6 | LLOYD 'S of London is a unique means by which people anywhere may buy insurance against risks of all kinds , but which has now fallen foul of risks its members should themselves have anticipated . |
| 7 | Returning to the All Blacks ' 11-match tour to Australia , the NZRFU has bowed to Australian pressure and loosened the grip on the Bledisloe Cup , for many years the symbol of Trans-Tasman supremacy , but which has only regained popularity in the last decade or so when Australia have been able to break the All Blacks ' hold on the Cup . |
| 8 | But what had just happened had nothing to do with etiquette : Antonio Crepi had made it clear that for him , and by extension for the whole of the Perugia that mattered , Zen had ceased to exist . |
| 9 | The masses were uneducated and the producers had given them rubbish , but what had really ensured ‘ the bloodlessness of the American film ’ was that with intellectuals alienated and excluded there had been ‘ no intelligent body ’ to shape the new medium . |
| 10 | But what had really struck her in his remark was that word sophisticated . |
| 11 | But what had suddenly occurred to her was that , with her having a day off tomorrow , if the tissue-typing results came she would n't be able to ring Mrs Hazell , as she 'd promised . |
| 12 | But what has most disturbed the professional archaeologists is the increasing decentralisation of decision-making in their field , reducing the CSRA to figurehead status . |