Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [is] also " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she 's also a little sad . |
| 2 | But she 's also shy and has thought about quitting acting several times when she 's had a lukewarm review or been rejected for a role . |
| 3 | Myra is a dear , but she 's also a gossip … my reputation will be in shreds by the time I get back . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Not only is she living thousands of miles away , in New York , but she 's also expecting twins any day now ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But she is also the symbol for a return of life into that darkness . |
| 7 | Mrs Satterley is unfortunately disabled by illness but she is also an avid knitter with Brother chunky and Silver Reed fine gauge machines . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Joanna Lumley may be better known for her recent performance in ‘ Absolutely Fabulous , ’ but she is also president of Farms for City Children . |
| 11 | But she is also a keen listener . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Denis Diderot gained lasting fame as the energetic editor of the French Encyclopaedia , but he is also rightly celebrated as an art critic . |
| 16 | But he is also a writer of remarkable ability who has managed to capture and to keep the readership he has bewildered and delighted and offended , and whose work is strong in an intelligent and generous-hearted awareness of public matters , some of them quite remote from the Family Roth : The Counterlife , for instance , carries a telling serio-comic critique of the hard line in Israel , the Israeli toughness , that refuses to ‘ give ground ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Roberto Baggio , the new ‘ wonder boy ’ of Italian soccer , is not only an outrageously talented footballer , but he is also intelligent and responsible , a player who on his own initiative has made a series of public anti-violence appeals . |
| 19 | Mr Major may be chancellor of the exchequer but he is also the member of Parliament for Huntingdon and is on most short-lists to succeed Mrs Thatcher as Tory leader . |
| 20 | Dante is a political poet but he is also a great deal more than that . |
| 21 | Morrissey is always taking off his shirt but he is also proudly and publicly chaste . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But he is also said to be intensely loyal to the woman who stood by him during his 27 years of imprisonment . |
| 24 | But he is also aware that they may be conceptions of the good life for people generally and for society as a whole . |
| 25 | But he is also in the Welsh National and the King George VI . ’ |
| 26 | Hogan not only controlled vast funds — subject of course to the complaisance of his superiors , a number of whom were also deeply interested in marketing — but he is also an extremely intelligent , able , shrewd , engaging and , if desperately shy , perceptive Australian . |
| 27 | But he is also expected to tackle the monarch over the damage done to Britain 's image by younger royals . |
| 28 | Sealey , signed on a month 's loan from Aston Villa , makes his debut at Oxford today with Cooper saying : ‘ He 's a good goalkeeper but he is also extrovert and loud . |
| 29 | Volkmar is a zealous preacher utterly devoted to the destruction of Chaos , but he is also a mighty warrior who is not afraid to face the peril of battle . |
| 30 | But he is also being squeezed by the United States : the American Congress has suspended payment of $11m in military aid until the officers named in the report , including the defence minister , are sacked . |