Example sentences of "but [Wh det] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around each bend , a new configuration of arches , pillars , temples , cathedrals and amphitheatres peels into view , eroded rock forms which geologists have sought to describe in architectural terms , but which in scale and complexity dwarf the largest creations of man . |
| 2 | The process of abstraction of reality produces the ‘ phantoms formed in the human brain' which are also ‘ necessarily , sublimates of their material life process ’ but which in turn are most significantly ‘ empirically verifiable and bound to material premises ’ ( Marx and Engels 1974 : 47 ) . |
| 3 | Blanketing everything is something which in other places is known as a sea fret but which in Redcar is called a Cleveland cocktail sling together two parts ICI , one British Steel and another of general fug and serve it up stirred not shaken . |
| 4 | After what seem an eternity , but which in reality could only have been about fifteen minutes , the paramedics from the county ambulance service arrived , and under David 's supervision the serious business of trying to lift Len out began . |
| 5 | First there is an increase in misdemeanours — the type of behaviour a girl might be ticked off for at home but which in care results in her finding herself further up the custodial ladder in a Community Home with Education . |
| 6 | We would then treat arithmetic as a set of manipulations which ( in theory ) could be built up from these more primitive operations , but which in practice are supplied as basic computer instructions for efficiency . |
| 7 | A lot of accidents occur on slides , for instance , which are mostly designed for use by seven to 12-year-olds , but which in practice are used more by preschoolers . |
| 8 | Indirect discrimination involves some pre-condition or obstacle which , on the fact of it , applies equally to men and women but which in practice less women ( or men ) can comply with than men ( or women ) . |
| 9 | Properly speaking , therefore , the new narrative pre-dates the so-called ‘ boom ’ , a term which is sometimes erroneously used as a synonym but which in fact refers to a process which took place in the 1960s and continued into the 1970s , when Spanish-American fiction won increasing recognition outside Latin America itself and achieved unprecedented commercial success . |
| 10 | Now a couple of problems which are frequently taken for fungus trouble , but which in fact are not , so perhaps we should talk about them here , between the fungus diseases and the physiological disorders . |
| 11 | It refers not only to a present which is constantly breaking down to form reveal the fragments of the past , but a view of our surroundings which may seem whole and contiguous , but which in fact is forever splintering and reshaping itself as our minds piece together the fragments that our eyes actually perceive . |
| 12 | It rejects the theoretical approach which claims University but which in fact consists of the interplay , in a closed system , of motives of atomistic , undifferentiated , instantly-adjusting ‘ agents ’ . |
| 13 | To the outsider it appears that when change of any kind is required , the NHS is so structured as to resemble a " mobile " : designed to move with any breath of air , but which in fact never changes its position and gives no clear indication of direction . |
| 14 | Er , it 's all very well saying er , these people were apprehended , what a bit of bad luck , but what in God 's name were they doing , straying around the border of a country like Iraq ? |
| 15 | He certainly would , but what in heaven 's name is he talking about ? |