Example sentences of "but [indef pn] which [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way a project which would have been profitable evolves into something much more fancy — and more fun — but something which is no longer profitable . |
| 2 | If we think about the basic body plan of a phylum , it can often be seen as a solution to an engineering design problem facing an ancestor , but one which is no longer relevant to most living descendants . |
| 3 | The restoration of this machine is likely to be a long term task , but one which is well within the capabilities of the centre 's restoration team . |
| 4 | This finding is borne out by a study by Weinrich-Haste ( 1986 ) which found that , while some subjects were rated by schoolchildren and undergraduates as definitely masculine , and some as neutral , none was rated as definitely feminine : a finding which suggests that the arts/science divide is not a symmetrical feminine/masculine divide , but one which is distinctly asymmetrical . |
| 5 | Planning a course is not an abstract exercise , but one which is intimately affected by the participants , content and setting . |
| 6 | A far less common problem but one which is much more dramatic is if you put your weight too far forward . |
| 7 | In The Masculine Dilemma ( 1980 ) , subtitled ‘ A Psychology of Masculinity ’ , Gregory Rochlin offers a different version of the homosexual male , but one which is once again in the service of defending an updated heterosexual masculinity , and its primacy within a sexual difference metaphysic . |
| 8 | The result is often a very useful skeleton history of the region , but one which is constantly undergoing revision and correction as new information is discovered . |
| 9 | However , not all change of state verbs can be expected to occur with adverbal adjectives even then ; for instance , murder and burn do indeed produce a change of state that can be described by an adjective but one which is so intimately linked to the nature of the verb and so banally obvious that the adjective describing the object is otiose . |