Example sentences of "but he is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But he is already doing that in clause I 3 , so the principle is already there . |
| 4 | For example , if an employee writes a computer program to help with his work but he is not employed as a computer programmer , his job is not to write computer programs and an employer can not necessarily assume that he owns the copyright in that particular program . |
| 5 | Police said they had not yet been able to identify the man but he is not believed to be local . |
| 6 | He is not doing badly enough to find another nominee through a brokered convention , but he is not doing well enough to please a majority even within his own party . |
| 7 | The researcher who cautiously confines his conclusions to those strictly justified by the data may be safe from criticism , but he is not making his own full potential contribution . |
| 8 | I suppose so , Rajiv , I suppose so , but he is not to come to the briefing . |
| 9 | He is in the living room , but he is not going out with you . ’ |
| 10 | But he is not letting any secrets slip before the big day . |
| 11 | Mr Patten left his hospital bed for last week 's crucial Commons ' votes , but he is not expected to return to the Department of Education , until the end of next month . |
| 12 | Thus the male is required to identify with other males but he is not allowed to desire them ; indeed , identification with should actually preclude desire for . |
| 13 | ‘ But he is not rushing himself . |
| 14 | Now Mr Kronquist may be a very clever man , but he is not permitted , either , to suspend the physical laws of the Universe . |
| 15 | Ultimately he believes that harmonisation of duty within the European Community must happen , but he is not sitting on the edge of his seat waiting for it : ‘ Politically we understand that uniform EC excise duty will not happen overnight , but alcohol is alcohol and we should be taxing alcohol volume and not the form that it comes in . ’ |
| 16 | In 1990 Baron Thyssen bought an outstanding work , ‘ The Lock ’ at Sotheby 's for £10,780,000 a world record for a British painting but he is not considered a likely purchaser of further works by the artist . |
| 17 | I am shouting into his face but he is n't listening . |
| 18 | I think he 's done it , I think he 's across the river and safe and there 's a buzzy glow of vicarious accomplishment starting to well up within me , but then there 's a cracking noise and he falls ; I think he 's tripped and fallen forward but he is n't lying flat on the snow , he 's sunk up to his waist in it and there 's a pool of darkness spreading on the whiteness around him as he struggles , trying to lever himself out and I ca n't believe this is happening , ca n't believe Andy is n't going to jump free ; I 'm yelling in fear now , shouting his name , screaming out to him . |
| 19 | But he is n't responding to treatment . ’ |
| 20 | But he is n't going to become leader . |
| 21 | " Yes , but he is n't going up it , " I replied sourly . |
| 22 | But he is also said to be intensely loyal to the woman who stood by him during his 27 years of imprisonment . |
| 23 | Not only is he locked in a cage , but he is also treated as Tamburlaine 's ‘ footstool ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But he is also posing the problem of how subscribers to that view accommodate examples where ‘ oral ’ thinking is found in literate societies . |
| 26 | But he is also expected to tackle the monarch over the damage done to Britain 's image by younger royals . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The farm worker still remains socially and geographically isolated but he is also becoming less bound by custom and habit . |
| 29 | ‘ Every sort of potato , ’ Spencer laughs , ‘ roast potatoes , mashed potatoes , baked potatoes … ’ his humour shines through constantly , of course he knows what a narrow escape it was , but he is well passed the haunting of it . |
| 30 | But he is soon forced to the conclusion that in this case it is impossible to keep the aesthetic side entirely apart from the biographical . |