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

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1 But during the same period the futures price has fallen by just 10 per cent .
2 There is nothing to show how long the game or the Society had been in abeyance before the meeting but in the same record a minute implies that the Society had been formed in 1483 .
3 But in the same period the Government has increased the rate of national insurance contributions from 6.5 to 9 per cent , and , because these rates start at a lower threshold than taxation , the net effect has been to mitigate the changes in income tax .
4 But over the same time the proportion of women in professional families using it remained steady .
5 The difference between Kinnock 's visibility to those with high and low levels of political interest dropped from 45 per cent before the campaign to 20 per cent at the end of the campaign ; the difference between his visibility to highbrow and lowbrow paper readers dropped from 28 per cent to a mere 5 per cent ; but over the same period the difference between his visibility amongst viewers and nonviewers of television news actually rose slightly .
6 This indicates an acceptance of the state structures , or a recognition of a need for the separation of Northern Ireland from the remaining state structure of Ireland , but at the same time a continuing opposition to protestant — loyalist dominance .
7 But at the same time a claim is being made concerning factual evidence about God 's existence .
8 DesignaKnit is easy to use — but at the same time a well-designed package with an excellent range of options .
9 We have treated it as a subject , but at the same time a method , the principal method whereby education may achieve its ultimate aim of giving a wide outlook on life .
10 There is a corresponding and no less seminal change in painting : the abandonment of the single ground line on which all figures rest ; a change which makes painting no longer simply the decoration of a flat surface but at the same time a feigned window on the three-dimensional world .
11 The term ‘ community ’ implies a diversity but at the same time a certain organized uniformity in the units .
12 A fair painting ; free in style but at the same time a good likeness .
13 So she was relieved , but at the same time a little chagrined when he did n't stop the car at all but drove her to the bottom of the footpath that led up to the Hoflin farm .
14 Perhaps , but at the same time the means to cope with market movements have developed enormously , bettering the lot of corporate treasurers all around the world .
15 Of these the most honourable , but at the same time the most burdensome , was tenure by knight service , which involved many irksome ‘ incidents ’ ( see Chapter 2 , note 2 ) .
16 But at the same time the vast majority of the people find themselves to be a single nation and are conscious of resembling one another more than they resemble foreigners .
17 ‘ I was so depressed , but at the same time the world was my oyster .
18 IN SEPTEMBER 1940 , the Battle of Britain was being fought over south east England by the pilots of Fighter Command , but at the same time the crews of Coastal and Bomber Commands were making heroic , but less well-known , attacks on the invasion barges and German naval forces assembled in the ports and harbours across the Channel .
19 But at the same time the number of available children with whom they might reside is much reduced by comparison , say , with the mid-nineteenth century , because of the reduction in the birth rate .
20 Here again it was the nobility and gentry who got the most attention , but at the same time the inferior ranks of society were defined with some rigour .
21 As yet , industry hereabouts may not fully have ‘ taken off ’ , but at the same time the many £2 assessments downgraded for tax purposes in the Vale region indicate a degree of recession , the state of some towns hinting at an uneasy period of relocation .
22 By the early 1970s not only had the general inflationary climate changed for the worse , but at the same time the Bretton Woods arrangements were breaking down .
23 In this period not only did the nature of the trade-offs change but at the same time the policy-makers came to attach more or less importance to particular objectives .
24 From 1945 until the 1960s the replacement of the electorate strengthened the ‘ working class ’ support for the Labour Party , but at the same time the current basis for such an alignment was weakening :
25 But at the same time the party received the votes of a smaller proportion of working class electors than ever before since the war .
26 But at the same time the leadership of the organised working class has had neither the imagination nor the capacity to attempt to force a radical restructuring of the national economy on working class terms .
27 He argues that over the last century or so the number of white-collar jobs has increased rapidly , but at the same time the skill required to do the jobs has been reduced .
28 The opportunities for domestic conflict are obvious , but at the same time the older generation of farm workers are made more aware of the opportunities that they themselves missed and of their lowly economic position compared with workers in other industries .
29 Obviously the ring had to be designed so that it was not uncomfortable to wear , but at the same time the key part needed to be intricate enough to serve a lock .
30 It was his last publication , but at the same time the first in which he printed secular music in part-books with full text to each separate part , in place of the choirbook lay-out .
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