Example sentences of "but he [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was away a lot , and then it would be up to Janice . |
| 2 | But he was evidently a man of powerful passions , and in the middle of his reading he broke out into an angry protest at the Council 's acquiescence in secular tyrannies in general , and at the lack of action in the case of Anselm in particular . |
| 3 | I was swotty but he was just a brain . |
| 4 | Bart Simpson was a proud under-achiever , but he was just the start . |
| 5 | Oh , he would be a doctor , an apothecary , but he was also a poisoner . |
| 6 | But he was also a man whose attitude to life amused , astonished and alarmed his contemporaries . |
| 7 | Joseph Robinson was aware of what was good for business but he was also a man who prided himself on his love of sport : this meant that he had a responsibility to knowledge and experience . |
| 8 | He was an extremely effective and wise lawyer , but he was also a man who had the common sense to understand the nature of the advice I required ; it was advice that would discourage Harold Wilson from proceeding any further ; so much so that there were only three occasions when we actually started proceedings on his behalf . |
| 9 | But he was also a man of fixed principles in matters of warfare . |
| 10 | Nöel Marie Joseph Edouard , Vicomte de Currières de Castelnau , to give him his full title , was a warm-blooded Pyrenean like Foch and Joffre , but he was also a nobleman and the scion of a long line of fighting generals . |
| 11 | De Lattre was a commander in the Napoleonic style but he was also a desert general who relied on an arc of Beau Geste-type forts . |
| 12 | That gave him the chance to exercise one of his talents , as a teacher , but he was also a bit of a musician , and soon established himself as the organist at the parish church in Holloway . |
| 13 | ‘ Johnson was a fine runner but he was also a fool , ’ said Livingston . |
| 14 | But he was also a patriot . |
| 15 | But he was also a war hero who had commanded small ships in battles in the Channel , for which he had been awarded two DSC 's , and the son of Scott of the Antarctic who then , even more than now , was a national hero of mythic proportions in the eyes of most of us . |
| 16 | But he was also a family butcher and he served the family did n't he ? |
| 17 | He was an archbishop , the king 's chief minister , but he was also a cardinal of the Roman church . |
| 18 | David was a war-leader of the Israelites ( who looked rather like the Franks to Charlemagne ) , but he was also the builder of the Jerusalem Temple . |
| 19 | Peacock was indeed a director of the Bank of England ; but he was also the partner in Baring 's who two years earlier had succeeded the late Lord Revelstoke as adviser on the King 's private finances . |
| 20 | But he was also the son of the painter and colour was in his genes . |
| 21 | He scored 15 and 1 , but he was clearly a man with an eye for posterity . |
| 22 | But he was never a man intent on building up a score . |
| 23 | ‘ Mark was my brother ; I know he had his faults , but he was never a liar . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I know that , ’ said Lili , ‘ but he was always a bit strange with them . |
| 25 | Then he went down in this loose scrum , should n't have been there , but he was always a bit of a hero , and I put my foot in looking for the ball and there he was . |
| 26 | He has great timing and is naturally very funny but he was always a gentleman and very professional as well . ’ |
| 27 | But he was always a law to himself . |
| 28 | I recall hearing Mr Wogan on the wireless , but he was basically a stranger to me . |
| 29 | But he was undoubtedly the man who had made such a powerful impact on her in the Piazzale Roma . |
| 30 | But he was only a mile and a half from Little Knoll . |