Example sentences of "but [pers pn] is [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother did encourage him in other of his writings , and certainly there is a good deal of family tradition in the ten books , which might reflect her influence , but she is not mentioned in the preface to the Decem Libri Historiarum . |
| 2 | Not only do her efforts to assert her freedom from male domination lead her into the hands of another man , but she is also punished for her resistance by having her words deemed valueless , just as today ‘ pseudo-escaperoutes will so lightly turn sado-escape , and … women 's very freedom will so easily be used against them by even moderately clever men ’ ( 12 ) . |
| 3 | But she is well trained , and — ’ |
| 4 | At the slave auction there are many would-be buyers for Barbara , but she is eventually bought by the enigmatic Tavius , the keeper of the household at Nero 's court . |
| 5 | Tall Loretta is supposed to pursue masculine endings of a linguistic kind as a London University academic but she is easily diverted to Bridget 's base at St Mark 's , Cambridge , and to discussions of one kind and another in Paris . |
| 6 | But she is essentially faced with thinking out what she believes truth to be . |
| 7 | Alice may enter a looking-glass world where unexpected things happen , but she is still constituted like a human being : walking may take her in an unexpected direction , but the nature of the physical act of walking is taken for granted . |
| 8 | She seems gay at first but she is quickly transformed , after a short lovemaking , into a Spenserian crone . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For example , if an employee writes a computer program to help with his work but he is not employed as a computer programmer , his job is not to write computer programs and an employer can not necessarily assume that he owns the copyright in that particular program . |
| 13 | Police said they had not yet been able to identify the man but he is not believed to be local . |
| 14 | Mr Patten left his hospital bed for last week 's crucial Commons ' votes , but he is not expected to return to the Department of Education , until the end of next month . |
| 15 | Thus the male is required to identify with other males but he is not allowed to desire them ; indeed , identification with should actually preclude desire for . |
| 16 | Now Mr Kronquist may be a very clever man , but he is not permitted , either , to suspend the physical laws of the Universe . |
| 17 | In 1990 Baron Thyssen bought an outstanding work , ‘ The Lock ’ at Sotheby 's for £10,780,000 a world record for a British painting but he is not considered a likely purchaser of further works by the artist . |
| 18 | But he is also said to be intensely loyal to the woman who stood by him during his 27 years of imprisonment . |
| 19 | Not only is he locked in a cage , but he is also treated as Tamburlaine 's ‘ footstool ’ . |
| 20 | But he is also expected to tackle the monarch over the damage done to Britain 's image by younger royals . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ But he is best remembered for his Porcine Circus . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Bellamy was the more prescient ; but he is almost forgotten , while the work of William Morris is still widely read today . |
| 30 | 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 . |