Example sentences of "but [pers pn] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slough , Berkshire-based T IS Ltd has launched a telephone call logging system aimed specifically at UK local authorities : dubbed Genesis MX , the system is claimed to produce cost centre recharge reports and time-to-answer reports in line with Citizen 's Charter recommendations ; personal computer-based , the product is also claimed to provide flexible recharge reports ( allowing for cross-billing of departments ) which can be linked to micro and mainframe systems for automatic accounting ; no word yet on list price , but T IS is also introducing a rental scheme for the system . |
| 2 | That seems a strange statement for someone who does n't measure success in chart placings , but his is an MD . |
| 3 | Elmer , David McKee 's patchwork elephant , also likes jokes and tricks but his is a subtler and more attractive humour . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ There is no doubt that they have to consider the possibility of closing the fund , but his is not what they want to do . |
| 5 | Paul is a lawyer other lawyers love to hate , but his is only one of a number of Yorkshire law firms that are sending a chill down the back of the London legal establishment . |
| 6 | This is similar to ‘ Futility ’ in the sense that Owen uses personal experience to get his message across but his is not so much about the pointlessness of war in general but is more focused on the individual soldier and the difference between death on the battlefield and death in your own town . |
| 7 | You may not believe it , but yours is a privileged generation , For your grandparents , sex was a taboo subject , enclosed by walls of " Thou shall nots ' and compounded by ignorance . |
| 8 | ‘ But yours is much better , Sister Dew , ’ said Sophia nobly . |
| 9 | but yours is much nicer . |
| 10 | Yep and and he does n't seem to be able to concentrate and I said , but Neil you can drive , when you go out with me you drive beautifully yes but yours is an automatic car , I said , it 's not that I said you 've got road sense you know what you 're doing , I said your good . |
| 11 | Yeah but yours is drug induced , this is just beauty and , and love your neighbour . |
| 12 | The vocalist of thrashers Old on ‘ Mazuraan ’ sounds like a garotted moggie , but theirs is a fine handle on melody nonetheless . |
| 13 | ‘ They 'll have to make adjustments , but theirs is such a rugby culture that they 'll spare nothing . |
| 14 | Now , as far as the Catholics are concerned , I have to say I like the people very much but theirs is not a faith I could accept myself . |
| 15 | But theirs is bigger , they 've got a pottery room , they 've got careers education there |
| 16 | yeah I know , yeah but theirs is forty something |
| 17 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
| 18 | But she is rapidly growing demoralised by her situation and is increasingly disinclined to do very much . |
| 19 | The pithy violence of Shostakovich 's First Sonata does not come naturally to her , but she is at home in the limpid impressionism of Rachmaninov 's G major Prelude , which on its own makes this disc worth having . |
| 20 | But she is not yet using the same language herself . |
| 21 | But she is also reacting against a political ‘ fixer ’ style of leadership associated with the Labour Prime Ministers Mr Wilson and Mr Callaghan in the mid-1970s . |
| 22 | She seems gay at first but she is quickly transformed , after a short lovemaking , into a Spenserian crone . |
| 23 | But she is in fact in grave theological and spiritual error . |
| 24 | He added : ‘ I think Esther Rantzen does a tremendous amount of good work , but she is a media star and I would hope that she will realise that people accept what she says as gospel truth . |
| 25 | But she is settling in much better now and looking forward to the best Christmas dinner money can buy . ’ |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | I doubt that she is much like the real Gertrude Lawrence but she is decidedly a class act . |
| 28 | She 's just lying there , but she is dead . ’ |
| 29 | Their frustrations used to be articulated by Mrs Thatcher , but she is now as likely to be a cause of them as a cure . |
| 30 | But she is starting with spirit . |