Example sentences of "but he [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adorno , we have seen , acknowledges this specificity — indeed , for him it explains the ( unfulfilled ) potential of jazz and the hangovers of ‘ real ’ creativity in some Tin Pan Alley songs ; but he subsumes it into a theory of ‘ false individualization ’ , designed , in his view , to disguise mass cultural production as ‘ art ’ . |
| 2 | The backbone of his work is the new recitative but he uses it with a power quite beyond Peri 's so that it is not merely ‘ expressive ’ but when necessary , as in Orfeo 's lament in Act II , heart-breaking . |
| 3 | It does not do him justice to say he is on their side , but he leaves us in no doubt about the horror of what Jacob and Rebekah have done . |
| 4 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
| 5 | He may use tools of analysis developed within a wider European tradition , but he applies them to a special problem : the uniqueness of our nation 's formation ; the condition of England . |
| 6 | Stephen has gone through confession , and is , he declares , ‘ Ready to forge that language ’ , but he declares it in a language that will not yet take Joyce out of desperation . |
| 7 | Oh yes , but he wants them for the whole of the year you see , which is impossible . |
| 8 | But he treats me like a child . |