Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He does n't like going to school for a start , but he goes else the old man beats him up . |
| 2 | Several modifications have been made to this bridge in the century and a half since its completion , but it remains basically the same bridge that Telford designed , and was one of the great civil-engineering achievements of the period . |
| 3 | The plant may be different but it uses basically the same manufacturing processes that the Partners licensed from the Belgian company of Solvay et Cie in 1872 . |
| 4 | ( It may be noted that erection can occur in younger — sometimes much younger — boys ; but it has not the Same significance . ) |
| 5 | It 's there all of the time , but it comes out the clearest when all the ‘ dramatic inflections , subtle stresses and sympathetic accents ’ ( Barthes ) , all the art of the singer , are abandoned , fall away , when Prince swoons , sounds like he 's on the brink of insensibility . |
| 6 | There is an element of bravado here — having conquered the academic and " literary " worlds , he wanted to move on — but it suggests also the extraordinary and self-conscious determination with which he worked . |
| 7 | But it looks just the same as a real animal . ’ |
| 8 | IT IS an old joke , but it sums up the present mood in Australia . |