Example sentences of "but [pers pn] is [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allison lost her baby a week later but she is philosophical about it . |
| 2 | but she is preoccupied at the moment with her exams and in a way I 'm glad . |
| 3 | She disapproves of a great deal of Charles 's life , these days ; she thinks his ambitions misplaced , his goals suspect , his methods dangerous , his new political alignments deplorable : but she is loyal to Charles , to Charles himself , to the man that these manifestations in her view misrepresent . |
| 4 | Her appearance at last year 's PFA Rally at Cranfield was her longest flight since her restoration , but she is capable of much longer journeys , especially as her excellent short-field performance enables her to drop into any farm-strip or even a flat field — should circumstances dictate a ‘ precautionary ’ landing for weather or fuel . |
| 5 | Her standards , she says , are high , like those sets herself , but she is fortunate in having ‘ loyal , creative , hardworking staff ’ . |
| 6 | Says a studio executive , ‘ Breathless was added for the dramatic story line she gives the film but she is faithful in style and tone to the original . ’ |
| 7 | But she is afraid of the doctors . |
| 8 | If she will be earning , that will eat into her profits , but she is likely to be more contented than if she had given up her job . |
| 9 | Anglicanism , for example , may be surviving in the countryside of Hertfordshire , and indeed is truly embedded there , but she is adrift in the East End of London ( Ahern and Davie 1987 ) . |
| 10 | But she is conscious of being the first contact customers and suppliers have with the company and of the need to keep cool under fire . |
| 11 | But she is concerned about many things in life . |
| 12 | But she is comfortable on her back . |
| 13 | But she is excellent in the play-extracts , lending Amanda in Private Lives just the right touch of acid mockery and hinting at a whole world of repressed longing as the suburban wife in Still Life ( the embryonic version of Brief Encounter ) . |
| 14 | Despite the similar names , Swedish dentist cum chart star DR ALBAN is no relation to Blur 's DAMON ALBARN … but he is married to Gladiators presenter ULRIKE JONSONN ! |
| 15 | But he is good at making ships . ’ |
| 16 | Laughton refuses to be drawn on the Leeds ' target , but he is keen on Great Britain tour scrum half Deryck Fox , valued at £150,000 after telling Featherstone he was determined to leave before the start of the new season . |
| 17 | He conveys vividly the absurdity of a situation , but he is incurious about the underlying processes which shape it . |
| 18 | But he is unmoved by the criticism , despite County 's failure to win any of their last seven matches . |
| 19 | But he is unhappy with the way the disciplinary inquiry was conducted and claims he will sue if his legal costs are not met . |
| 20 | But he is genuine in his mission . |
| 21 | ‘ My husband does n't do any housework or cooking but he is marvellous with the children , ’ says Larissa . |
| 22 | With his accountant 's help he eventually moved his accounts to the Midland , which gave him the overdraft on reasonable terms , but he is critical of the way banks look at small businesses , believing that many only look at the business sector rather than at the person running a particular business . |
| 23 | But he is pleased with deals at Brooklands business park where lettings last week to Sony and Marks & Spencer were ‘ spectacular ’ . |
| 24 | But he is pleased with his latest commission to paint Isaiah Berlin . |
| 25 | But he is derisive about English defenders and he has a descriptive way of saying so . |
| 26 | Hughes readily admits to being something of a sexual tearaway but he is uncomfortable at the thought of superseding Michael Ignatieff as the thinking woman 's crumpet . |
| 27 | He may be a little abrasive at times , he maya not come pre-packaged with a lot of safe rock attitudes , but he is one of the true independents . |
| 28 | Hywel is rich and they do not like him but he is one of them . |
| 29 | Ackroyd warns us not to jump to a conflation here , but he is intrigued by the coincidence , and it might almost serve as an emblem of his concern throughout the biography with the connection between poetry and feigning , and with the potency of parody . |
| 30 | But he is right in seeing the movement of criticism from literature to the academy as having large cultural implications . |