Example sentences of "but [pers pn] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She seems gay at first but she is quickly transformed , after a short lovemaking , into a Spenserian crone . |
| 32 | But she is rapidly growing demoralised by her situation and is increasingly disinclined to do very much . |
| 33 | But she is continually spotted out in the real world , so to speak , especially in the shops even though she looks nothing like her screen image . |
| 34 | Hannah knows her , of course , but she is as tight-lipped about names and places as everyone else in Cotherstone . |
| 35 | ‘ One thing you notice about her driving is that she is quite precise but she is never afraid to go into battle . ’ |
| 36 | But she is always a disappointment . |
| 37 | with her really , we never get the chance to , but she is always on her own , none of the other three , if you look , never |
| 38 | But she is certainly more intelligent than him . |
| 39 | ‘ But she is only eleven years old . ’ |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Their frustrations used to be articulated by Mrs Thatcher , but she is now as likely to be a cause of them as a cure . |
| 42 | Mrs Marcos agreed long ago to fly her husband 's body direct to Laoag , but she is now hinting at defiance . |
| 43 | But she is now in the Leicester area . |
| 44 | But she is so pretty , they forgive her for it . |
| 45 | But she is so pretty ! |
| 46 | ‘ 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 . |
| 47 | Pocahontas was n't a Dead White European Male ( in case you 're not familiar with the current acronym ) but she is definitely PC ( Politically Correct ) . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | But she is very bright . |
| 50 | But she is very aware of what Marcel Mauss called ‘ the total social fact ’ . |
| 51 | Sometimes this person is slow in coming forward but she is often quite right , these jumpers do sell in the end . |
| 52 | But 't is only October , she thought , and the weather as yet is mild . |
| 53 | I should have loved thee as well as my mother did if … but 't is all over now . |
| 54 | ‘ But he is probably safer now than he will be in 10 years ’ time . |
| 55 | An ankle tendon injury , suffered at practice on the very day he completed his century at Durham , side-lined Smith for a fortnight but he is most certainly a name to watch this summer . |
| 56 | ‘ He is determined to try to give all his evidence but he is most certainly fighting a race against time . |
| 57 | The hero of Simon Gray 's comedy Otherwise Engaged ( 1975 ) , in similar fashion , only wants to be left alone to play his new recording of Wagner 's Parsifal , but he is successively interrupted by neighbour , brother and wife , who succeed in disturbing him and fail only to interest him . |
| 58 | But he is again in God 's Territory , and he bumps into him again , as the man and the woman bumped into God in his Garden . |
| 59 | Frank needs time to adjust to the pace etc etc , and also could do with losing a little weight … but he is definately one for the future . |
| 60 | Mr Sisulu , the former secretary-general of the African National Congress , may be less famous than Nelson Mandela , but he is equally formidable : if his family is included , even more so . |