Example sentences of "but he [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Many know him as the British jazz singer , but he is equally respected for his brilliance as a film and tv critic , modern art expert , writer and fisherman . |
| 3 | But he is already doing that in clause I 3 , so the principle is already there . |
| 4 | But he is also said to be intensely loyal to the woman who stood by him during his 27 years of imprisonment . |
| 5 | Not only is he locked in a cage , but he is also treated as Tamburlaine 's ‘ footstool ’ . |
| 6 | His seat is secure but he is also seeing the man who defeated him for the party leadership on the way to another victory for the Tories . |
| 7 | But he is also posing the problem of how subscribers to that view accommodate examples where ‘ oral ’ thinking is found in literate societies . |
| 8 | But he is also expected to tackle the monarch over the damage done to Britain 's image by younger royals . |
| 9 | Ramaciotti is not just one of Europe 's finest car designers ( the stunning Mythos concept car was the result of his boyhood dreams ) but he is also considered one of the best analysts of design in the business . |
| 10 | The farm worker still remains socially and geographically isolated but he is also becoming less bound by custom and habit . |
| 11 | ‘ Every sort of potato , ’ Spencer laughs , ‘ roast potatoes , mashed potatoes , baked potatoes … ’ his humour shines through constantly , of course he knows what a narrow escape it was , but he is well passed the haunting of it . |
| 12 | But he is soon forced to the conclusion that in this case it is impossible to keep the aesthetic side entirely apart from the biographical . |
| 13 | He can be a ‘ character ’ , a source of quaint rustic humour or homespun rural philosophy on such matters as the seasons and the weather , but he is rarely expected to be either forward-thinking or ‘ forward ’ in his demeanour . |
| 14 | After that experience , some might think that his career slipped a little when he joined the Evening Standard , but he is clearly thriving in that career . |
| 15 | He was more active as a member of the first Jacobean Parliament , often called upon in his official capacity to supply precedents , but he is best remembered for his diary of the Parliament , which has been described as ‘ indispensable ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ But he is best remembered for his Porcine Circus . ’ |
| 17 | Electing to leave him to his own devices , I wave through the windscreen but he is still fumbling through his camera bag and does n't say goodbye . |
| 18 | In later days it became fashionable to see Chaplin as a political rebel against Hollywood 's factory methods but he is better seen as the last of the old-style showmen offering a highly polished product to the masses that he felt he knew so intimately . |
| 19 | His first known job was of advising on the course alterations at Pyecombe in Sussex in 1902 , but he is better known for designing from scratch some of the country 's most stunning courses — Carnoustie , Dalmahoy , Blairgowrie and Royal Blackheath , plus many , many more . |
| 20 | Bellamy was the more prescient ; but he is almost forgotten , while the work of William Morris is still widely read today . |
| 21 | ‘ Mr. Bishop is mistaken in thinking we are litterbugs , but he is only doing his duty in taking steps to protect Ferngrove Park . |
| 22 | This is the work of an exceptional artist , but he is only carrying further than usual ideas that occupy all archaic East Greek sculptors and are soon transmitted to those of other areas . |
| 23 | In arguing the case for these conclusions , Mr Bhattacharya may not be totally convincing , but he is always challenging . |
| 24 | Normally he would manage projects from his office in Bridge of Allan , but he is now based on the North Morcambe site because of the size of this contract . |
| 25 | One lifeguard said , ‘ Ace may not have ridden the biggest wave , but he 's sure got the biggest mouth . ’ |
| 26 | I tried to stop him bringing her , but he 's clearly besotted . ’ |
| 27 | But he 's soon to learn his behaviour 's just not natural . |
| 28 | But he 's already done it . |
| 29 | Erm but it 's go it 's gon na be open to erm , applicants but he 's already made enquiries as to his erm chances of getting it , th and there 's , there 's so many people wi already being given promotion but have n't got a erm a post |
| 30 | It 's an unscheduled stop , but he 's already managed to get clearance . |