Example sentences of "but [pers pn] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ But yours is much better , Sister Dew , ’ said Sophia nobly . |
| 3 | but yours is much nicer . |
| 4 | ‘ But she is little shy . ’ |
| 5 | But Jane 's angry husband George said last night : ‘ She may give a laid back impression but she is remarkably alert . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But she is also the symbol for a return of life into that darkness . |
| 8 | Mrs Satterley is unfortunately disabled by illness but she is also an avid knitter with Brother chunky and Silver Reed fine gauge machines . |
| 9 | Mother Hilary may well be the one to shed those tears , but she is also a realist who realises that for her daughter to achieve at the sport she loves , she needed to leave home . |
| 10 | But she is also modest and generous , lavishing praise on the musicians she 's worked with , and in particular on John Dunford , for putting the whole thing together so effectively . |
| 11 | Joanna Lumley may be better known for her recent performance in ‘ Absolutely Fabulous , ’ but she is also president of Farms for City Children . |
| 12 | But she is also a keen listener . |
| 13 | But she is also a mother : she has a baby at her feet , and a further child , a three-year-old girl , whose hips we have decided to destroy . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Writing in Inspire , Elizabeth Innes rightly says that the house-to-house collection is the least popular task of the Week , but she is also right when she tells how a word of thanks from a housebound person , grateful for the opportunity to give , compensates for previous rebuffs . |
| 16 | But she is well trained , and — ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I doubt that she is much like the real Gertrude Lawrence but she is decidedly a class act . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Joanna Trollope , with The Men and the Girls ( Black Swan ) , is new to my Giants section but she is already there a year earlier than I thought she would be , which is wonderful . |
| 22 | Her first novel , but she is already so popular with the media that they will lap her up . |
| 23 | But she is essentially faced with thinking out what she believes truth to be . |
| 24 | You must forgive her , but she is still not herself . |
| 25 | But she is still the same MP ; I do n't think she has moved an inch . ’ |
| 26 | Last year it was revealed she had beaten breast cancer , but she is still frightened of getting old . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But she is still not quite as she was , I take it ? ’ |
| 29 | But she is still too sleepy for visitors . |
| 30 | Yesterday a Teesside Crown Court jury was told by James Spencer QC , prosecuting : ‘ That lady survives today but she is permanently brain damaged and disabled and she is unable to say what happened to her on the morning on Wednesday , August 29 , 1990 . ’ |