Example sentences of "but [pers pn] is [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother Hilary may well be the one to shed those tears , but she is also a realist who realises that for her daughter to achieve at the sport she loves , she needed to leave home . |
| 2 | But she is also a keen listener . |
| 3 | But she is also a mother : she has a baby at her feet , and a further child , a three-year-old girl , whose hips we have decided to destroy . |
| 4 | Mrs Satterley is unfortunately disabled by illness but she is also an avid knitter with Brother chunky and Silver Reed fine gauge machines . |
| 5 | But she is also the symbol for a return of life into that darkness . |
| 6 | I doubt that she is much like the real Gertrude Lawrence but she is decidedly a class act . |
| 7 | But she is still the same MP ; I do n't think she has moved an inch . ’ |
| 8 | But she is always a disappointment . |
| 9 | Anyway we 're going to go for trap two , Smoky Amber here , now she 's a bitch that is really , I think 's going to be something special over a longer trip , erm you know a longer distance , but she is only a March eighty nine so she 's not two yet . |
| 10 | ‘ You know , I 've never told you , but she is actually a descendant of one of the oldest , noblest families in England , a d'Urberville in fact . |
| 11 | He waits a long time before seizing her , getting to know her habits and other information about her , but she is really a complete stranger who has never met or loved him , unlike Daisy and Gatsby who at least know each other before the book begins . |
| 12 | Although he has lived in the UK since 1969 , Zarei was born in Iran and is often listed as Iranian , but he is officially a British athlete , and won an England vest when competing in the Milton Keynes 24-hour Championships in 1989 . |
| 13 | But he is also a writer of remarkable ability who has managed to capture and to keep the readership he has bewildered and delighted and offended , and whose work is strong in an intelligent and generous-hearted awareness of public matters , some of them quite remote from the Family Roth : The Counterlife , for instance , carries a telling serio-comic critique of the hard line in Israel , the Israeli toughness , that refuses to ‘ give ground ’ . |
| 14 | Dante is a political poet but he is also a great deal more than that . |
| 15 | Volkmar is a zealous preacher utterly devoted to the destruction of Chaos , but he is also a mighty warrior who is not afraid to face the peril of battle . |
| 16 | He is head of the judiciary , but he is also a politician and a member of the Cabinet . |
| 17 | Not only is starting a new career in accounting , but he is also a lead singer in a group called ‘ Cellardwellers ’ and will be starting a tour of 30 dates this summer , including Hamburg and America . |
| 18 | Hogan not only controlled vast funds — subject of course to the complaisance of his superiors , a number of whom were also deeply interested in marketing — but he is also an extremely intelligent , able , shrewd , engaging and , if desperately shy , perceptive Australian . |
| 19 | As you may have gathered , Max Henery seems to possess an inexhaustible supply of self-deprecating deadpan humour , but he is also an extremely determined individual . |
| 20 | But he is also an American and before he guns you down in cold blood , in the manner you so justly deserve I might add , I 'm sure he will see his way clear to giving you a dying request . ’ |
| 21 | Mr Major may be chancellor of the exchequer but he is also the member of Parliament for Huntingdon and is on most short-lists to succeed Mrs Thatcher as Tory leader . |
| 22 | Former Mossad colleagues have insisted hotly that Harari could not have been involved in the drugs trade , but he is clearly a hard man to defend . |
| 23 | McEniff prefers not to talk figures but he is clearly a wealthy man . |
| 24 | In the Sonnets , clearly , the speaker is sometimes placed in a respectful relationship , the disinterested friend advising a brilliant young man to marry ; at other times he is an equal , celebrating a friendship or reproaching its betrayal ; but he is never the superior . |
| 25 | He may act at times like a nasty prat , but he is still a legend . |
| 26 | But he is still a leader on trial . |
| 27 | Harry 's cricket career was cut short in the 1930s when he hurt his back but he is still an avid cricket fan . |
| 28 | And Fergsuon acknowledges : ‘ We might not be so reliant on Robbo as we were two years ago but he is still the leader , the player the rest look up to . |
| 29 | Gooch recalled playing against Waqar at Chelmsford : ‘ The first impression was that he seemed to have a very long run-up but he is obviously a very fine fast bowler with the ability to swing , particularly the old ball . ’ |
| 30 | Razumikhin himself may or may not have come from the country , but he is certainly a member of the floating , unbelonging population of students and ex-students , and he records in simple puzzlement that Raskolnikov has been growing increasingly moody and suspicious and introverted ; ‘ he has no time for anything , people are always in his way , and yet he lies about and does nothing ’ — a confirming echo of Raskolnikov on his bed telling Nastasya the maid that he is working , by which he means thinking . |