Example sentences of "but [verb] [prep] [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It seems that they are not gods exactly , but made of the same stuff as gods .
2 The Face runs on a shoestring but sits on the same shelf as Vogue and Vanity Fair , the shiny starships of megalomedia , and it is usually better looking , nearly always a better read .
3 It displays the extraordinary virtuosity which this scheme encourages , but has at the same time great sculptural power .
4 It has in the past happened that a client has been advised by the agent to amend an order , has entirely agreed with that advice , but has at the same time pointed out that his authority does not extend to giving a final decision , and this can be awkward .
5 Saint-Exupéry said that ‘ loving someone does not mean looking into each other 's eyes , but looking in the same direction together . ’
6 In fact love has been defined as not looking at each other , but looking in the same direction .
7 In an interview with police , Smith , who at the time was going through divorce proceedings but living in the same house as her husband , told them : ‘ It was him or me . ’
8 It is easier to calculate than G , but open to the same objection as an indicator .
9 The aim is to acknowledge the guilty nature of the hero according to one set of criteria , those of ordinary morality , but to stress at the same time that his guilty act is a source of pride and value of an altogether different , non-moral , antinomian kind .
10 Similarly , if a director is thinking of selling the company in the near future , but continuing in the same employment thereafter , it might be better not to restrict salary .
11 They had agreed to live as if they were divorced , but continue in the same house together .
12 Most have no wings but stay on the same plant , feeding and multiplying .
13 Concomitant symptoms are symptoms not directly related to but arising at the same time as , the main complaint such as a headache with diarrhoea or cold sores with a fever — things which are repeatedly associated , so that the patient might say ‘ Whenever I get this problem I always get a stomach upset ’ or whatever it may be .
14 Jogs occur when , over small number of monomer units , the linear chain is displaced laterally but continues in the same direction as before .
15 Cautiously she admitted it but said in the same breath that it was of no consequence because her father had died for political reasons .
16 But quoted as the same size alright ?
17 It is not how much we read , nor even what we understand in our heads , but receiving in the same spirit in which the scriptures were first written .
18 He did n't run but hurried in the same direction , and he kept him in view until Joe disappeared into the belt of woodland .
19 Similarly , a motherless Glasgow soldier 's daughter was taken in by her grandparents and brought up with the help of an aunt , who married soon after but stayed in the same home .
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