Example sentences of "but he is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But he is probably safer now than he will be in 10 years ’ time . |
| 2 | An ankle tendon injury , suffered at practice on the very day he completed his century at Durham , side-lined Smith for a fortnight but he is most certainly a name to watch this summer . |
| 3 | ‘ He is determined to try to give all his evidence but he is most certainly fighting a race against time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But he is again in God 's Territory , and he bumps into him again , as the man and the woman bumped into God in his Garden . |
| 6 | Frank needs time to adjust to the pace etc etc , and also could do with losing a little weight … but he is definately one for the future . |
| 7 | Mr Sisulu , the former secretary-general of the African National Congress , may be less famous than Nelson Mandela , but he is equally formidable : if his family is included , even more so . |
| 8 | The man is terrified of that , but he is equally terrified at the loss of it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But he is keenly aware of history . |
| 11 | ‘ I have watched videos of Benredjeb and he will be a tough opponent , but he is just my height and should be perfect for me , ’ he said after sparring with Arguelles at the Belfast gym of his manager , Barney Eastwood . |
| 12 | Although he has lived in the UK since 1969 , Zarei was born in Iran and is often listed as Iranian , but he is officially a British athlete , and won an England vest when competing in the Milton Keynes 24-hour Championships in 1989 . |
| 13 | Ryland Davies is a fluent and musically amiable Jenik , but he is plainly not at home in the long and crucial stretches of middle-to-low register that Smetana throws at him ; and the same is true of David Owen 's otherwise rather stylish Vasek . |
| 14 | But he is already top salesman in his company and dreams of being able to give it all up to start his own small business . |
| 15 | But he is already doing that in clause I 3 , so the principle is already there . |
| 16 | But he is already very cold . |
| 17 | ‘ But he is rather lacking in grace , ’ Salome said . |
| 18 | I know he 's won some tournaments but he is simply not Open material . |
| 19 | ‘ But he is painfully aware of his failure to dominate her , ’ says Dr Trower . |
| 20 | Denis Diderot gained lasting fame as the energetic editor of the French Encyclopaedia , but he is also rightly celebrated as an art critic . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Dante is a political poet but he is also a great deal more than that . |
| 26 | Morrissey is always taking off his shirt but he is also proudly and publicly chaste . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But he is also said to be intensely loyal to the woman who stood by him during his 27 years of imprisonment . |
| 29 | But he is also aware that they may be conceptions of the good life for people generally and for society as a whole . |
| 30 | But he is also in the Welsh National and the King George VI . ’ |