Example sentences of "but they [vb base] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reports may be brief or lengthy but they follow the same pattern . |
| 2 | But they mean something entirely different but they say the same words . |
| 3 | Tallis invokes Frege 's distinction between ‘ The Morning Star ’ and ‘ The Evening Star ’ , which are different expressions with different senses or meanings , as would be apparent if we tried to translate them into another language , but they have the same referent ( the planet Venus ) . |
| 4 | But they have the same source . |
| 5 | One was a hunt for witches , the other for Communists , but they involve the same function of the human mind . |
| 6 | Both Bell and Howell and Rank-Aldis make versions of this machine : bell and Howell 's is the Language Master , Rank-Aldis calls theirs a Card Reader , but they perform the same function . |
| 7 | They may disagree with each other profoundly , and compete to outdo each other relentlessly , but they share the same notion of the contest and adhere , more or less , to the same rules . |