Example sentences of "but which [was/were] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said it as if books were some terrible bore which everybody had to put up with but which were n't of the slightest use . |
| 2 | Respondents were asked to describe how they would like to expand their training programmes : this elicited needs that libraries perceived as significant but which were not being satisfied , and information about the factors that they felt were preventing them from undertaking ‘ enough ’ training . |
| 3 | However , many of these dogs have not complied with other sections of the law , such as neutering , and more than 600 are no longer alive — including over 100 puppies which were conceived before the Dangerous Dogs Act came into force , but which were not allowed to be sold or given away after the legislation was introduced . |
| 4 | Conciliation and compromise were other important indigenous principles that carried official sanction in pre-British times but which were not accommodated by the formal institutions set up by the British . |
| 5 | Then I persuaded Vernon Hunt , who was Chief Inspector at that time , of the desirability of publishing information about those accidents on which £e had a great deal of information but which were not made the subject of a formal investigation . |
| 6 | In 1781 the French astronomer Charles Messier drew up a catalogue of them , containing over a hundred entries , not because he was interested in them ( quite the contrary ! ) but because he was a comet-hunter , and he was persistently misled by fuzzy objects which looked like comets but which were not . |
| 7 | Even more widespread was extra spending by carers on items and services which were needed by the disabled or elderly person , but which were not covered by the financial contribution which the latter made to the household budget ( even when this included both retirement or invalidity pensions and disability benefits ) . |
| 8 | Its remit includes addressing the needs of businesses ineligible for either the Official List or the USM but which were not able to raise sufficient finance on a long-term basis elsewhere . |
| 9 | In Ealing , where bills increased by 30% but which was not capped , the swing to the Conservatives was 6.0% . |
| 10 | The Prime Minister and his immediate allies had rejected the possibility of devaluation — the ‘ unmentionable ’ solution to which Crosland was committed , but which was not faced until 1967 . |
| 11 | One might wish to locate every entry whose last illustrative example was dated before , say , 1880 , but which was not labelled obsolete or rare , in order to add to each a more recent quotation . |
| 12 | At that hearing , according to information which is before us but which was not before the judge , the first appellant was not present . |
| 13 | A very confident performance , which would not have been out of place as a university seminar , but which was not , perhaps , geared to this audience . |