Example sentences of "but [pers pn] is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She is a wooden ship , not unlike the old clippers we used to run for the grain trade before World War I , but she is at least a century older . |
| 3 | The Goddess is alive and powerful and sentient , yes , but she is like blood , within us . |
| 4 | I was afraid for her , anxious all the time , but she is like a monkey when she is in the saddle . |
| 5 | But she is in fact in grave theological and spiritual error . |
| 6 | The curving shapes are there but she is in her Sunday best , positively dripping in spires , swags , pilasters , finials , and coats of arms , the better to proclaim her respectability and superiority . |
| 7 | ‘ She can hardly wait for you to get home , ’ Barney assured her hurriedly , ‘ but she is in bed with flu , nothing serious . ’ |
| 8 | I am looking thoughtful , but she is in no mood for meaningful gazes across the room . |
| 9 | Molly is aware that she has cancer but she is in great heart . |
| 10 | ‘ There is a high risk of her not surviving the transplant but she is in a hole now . |
| 11 | I have a six-month-old German shepherd dog but he is under my constant control when there are children around . |
| 12 | In practice , the LPA may offer advice to the chief constable on matters of policy , but he is under no legal obligation to accept it . |
| 13 | Fillis 's training methods were cruel , and fortunately were quickly forgotten after his death , but he is of interest because he tried to demonstrate ( although unsuccessfully ) how horses think . |
| 14 | But he is at pains to stress that it is not philosophical knowledge , not true science . |
| 15 | He considers a trust in favour of the family fideicommissum familiae relictum ) : a settlor has established it ; a member of the family is benefiting from it , but he is at the same time bound by the trust to hand on the property on death to a further member of the family . |
| 16 | We do not suggest he would be the right Labour leader , but he is at least an honest and fearlessly outspoken politician . ’ |
| 17 | Admittedly , he does n't yet earn a fraction of the money a man of his age and experience would expect to earn outside , but he is on the way to the real big-time . |
| 18 | ‘ There is obviously long-term rehabilitation for Mick , but he is on the way back . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ There is obviously long-term rehabilitation for Mick , but he is on the way back . ’ |
| 20 | God , said Dionysius , is not only above our notions of goodness but he is above ‘ God ’ himself as we understand him . |
| 21 | But he is in control of the police and the security services . |
| 22 | But he is in restless mood and his wandering eye , seeking distraction , is caught by the sight of an attractive woman walking beside the park lake . |
| 23 | ‘ But he is in good form and I certainly would n't receive a severe shock if he were to win even though he is a long way out of the handicap . |
| 24 | But he is in one sense or another occupied with it for the rest of the book as he directs the recluse in understanding her experience in terms of a pattern established by the Incarnation , and anchors his teaching to Scripture . |
| 25 | Mayo 's concern is primarily with religious instruction , but he is by no means unique in suggesting that learning was good for a servant . |
| 26 | But he is by nature — by his Arab and Oriental culture — irrational . |
| 27 | His second to Party Politics in the Grand National marked him down as a stayer , but he is by no means a slouch over shorter trips . |
| 28 | I 'm not sure if you 're aware of it , but he is from a very poor background . |
| 29 | I should , at this point , declare my interest as being associated with Horizon , but it is through this link that I know that not one of the producers involved with BBC productions was consulted in any way during the writing of the book . |
| 30 | But it is between coups , or unrests , and has lately been smashed and looted . |