Example sentences of "but [Wh det] is [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many of the analogous medieval fabliaux of a miller and two clerks , the one clerk 's designs upon the daughter are motivated by simple lust , because she is beautiful , and involve her deception too , as she is given , in the dark , what she is told is a gold ring but which is simply an iron ring off an andiron in the fireplace . |
| 2 | It eventually arrives at a short recapitulation of the initial music which , in its turn , breaks into a closing ‘ burst ’ of music which does sound like late eighteenth-century wind music , but which is actually a stylistic pastiche . |
| 3 | The antagonist as a religious believer is right to assert that the moral code comes from a sacred source , which he calls God , but which is really the Primal Father . |
| 4 | The walls surrounding the courtyard used to protect what was once a fortress but which is now a youth hostel . |
| 5 | Many men feel a very great sense of despair and discomfort upon entering what used to be their home with their wife , but what is now a house that seems to demand a lot of time-consuming work . |