Example sentences of "but [Wh det] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government is getting much better value for its money , he claims , from Jobclubs which offer the unemployed services such as free telephones and confidence-boosting sessions , but which eschew training . |
| 2 | The company , which has a major share stake in Sky 's rival British Satellite Broadcasting but which rents receiver equipment for Rupert Murdoch 's operation , said around 30,000 dishes a month are being sold or rented . |
| 3 | A natural monopoly is sustainable if there is no vector of prices and associated vector of outputs which allow an incumbent 's total costs to be at least covered by revenues but which make entry unattractive . |
| 4 | A large proportion of the Company 's employees work outside the United Kingdom and the directors believe that it is appropriate to establish share option schemes for those employees which broadly mirror the UK schemes but which take account of the laws , securities requirements and tax regimes in the countries where the employees live and work . |
| 5 | I mean perhaps it could take the form of Adult Attendance Centres , but erm we need something which is seen to be punitive but which falls sort of full deprivation of erm liberty . |
| 6 | There are , however , further areas where co-operation is possible , but which require agreement on policy at a higher level , and yet other possibilities which would involve additional institutions . |
| 7 | Governments may intervene in the railways in a way that undermines managerial autonomy and responsibility , but which makes sense from the point of view of political symbols and messages about productivity and efficiency ; this will become clearer from the case studies in later chapters . |
| 8 | She only knew that from the moment she had stepped on to Danish soil she 'd been caught up in circumstances over which she had no control , but which appeared moment by moment to be leading her further from her original purpose . |
| 9 | Given the commitment in the citizens charter to parental choice in education , will the Prime Minister agree to meet a small delegation of parents from William Gladstone school which has an excellent academic record and an expanding roll but which faces closure as Brent council wishes to sell the school because of its site value ? |
| 10 | The systematic treatment of modus as trust is a feature first of the Severan period , a movement which began , as Gordian describes , with trusts of freedom but which gained momentum and spread to other types of trust as well . |
| 11 | Section 231 requires information specified in Schedule 5 to be given in notes to the accounts regarding what are referred to in the headings to the section and the Schedule as ‘ related undertakings ’ — an expression which the Act does not define but which includes parent and subsidiary undertakings , associated undertakings , joint ventures , and undertakings in which the company has a substantial holding . |
| 12 | This is the difference between seeing growth as depicted by a statistical average on an ascending curve , or as a trend line indicating upwards motion and growth but which includes decline and ascent combined . |
| 13 | Connolly 's famous valedictory — ‘ It is closing time in the gardens of the West ’ — may be little more than the self-excusing of an indolent man , but what replaced Horizon ( 1940 — 50 ) and Penguin New Writing ( 1940–50 ) was something far brisker and far less mandarin . |
| 14 | It is certain that justification is capable of being a defence to this tort , but what constitutes justification is incapable of exact definition . |
| 15 | But what does tameness have to do with barking ? |
| 16 | But what does self-interest tell the allocator to do ? |
| 17 | ‘ But what does handwriting matter ? |
| 18 | But what does team manager Glenn Hoddle have to say ? |
| 19 | But what makes HP 's claims more convincing than most is the support from traditional IBM mainframe software suppliers , something HP is said to have been putting together for the last 18 months . |
| 20 | But what makes pH so important ? |
| 21 | But what causes illness ? |
| 22 | ‘ But what 'as Nanny put you in ? |
| 23 | But what did time signify ? |
| 24 | But what aroused resentment from people in the film industry had nothing to do with the merits of these films , which critic Raymond Durgnat reasonably characterized as ‘ sub-Ealing comedies so timid as to be positively ingratiating , ’ nor the production programme 's lack of profitability . |