Example sentences of "but [adv] [prep] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This deeper controversy sustains the debate between liberal interpretations of the modern law of contract , but paradoxically at the same time demonstrates its pointlessness . |
| 2 | An increased number of children may not lead to more dwellings being required , but rather to the same number of larger homes ; or may affect the types of homes needed , such as those with amenities like gardens : conversely , an ageing population , which tends to consist of smaller household sizes , may need a larger number of dwellings , perhaps smaller and with special requirements such as ease of access . |
| 3 | But so about the same time as the mill was heightened , I think that th land was drained . |
| 4 | But somehow at the same time I am washing myself — I 'm trying to get the filth off myself . |
| 5 | The other main formulation is the rule of acting in such a way that you treat humanity , whether in your own person or in the person of any other , never simply as a means , but always at the same time as an end . |
| 6 | We ought , he said , to ‘ treat humanity whether in your own person , or in the person of any other , never simply as a means , but always at the same time as an end ’ ( Kant , 1948 , para. 429 ) . |
| 7 | Without this first step there is no beginning , and every subsequent step in the search takes one further but always in the same direction . |
| 8 | I bought some lovely old half-glazed pots , two plates and a jug — not matching , but probably from the same pottery in the Midi . |
| 9 | At its best such a book will not only provide a satisfying solution to the murder puzzle which it still must have , but also at the same time the solution of the mystery should reveal finally what it was the novel had to say . |
| 10 | As it is , the magnitude and direction of laterality effects vary not only between different subjects and different experiments but also within the same subject at different stages within an experiment ( e.g. Hellige " , 1976 ; Shefsky , Stenson and Miller , 1981 ) . |
| 11 | More children ( 90 per cent ) have pre-school education in the GDR than in the Federal Republic ( about 80 per cent ) , but overall about the same proportion go to school . |
| 12 | It may be valid to teach a stroke such as a bow rudder to a recreational paddler but even on the same paddle stroke the arm and paddle positions used by slalomists and WW tourists are very different . |
| 13 | But almost in the same instant she rejected that idea . |
| 14 | The brightest of them , M37 , is in the same × 7 field with Theta , but barely in the same field with × 12 . |
| 15 | I base this theory on having seen the fish both distressed and inflated , but never at the same time . |
| 16 | I 've had tons of guitars , but never at the same time — I never had enough money to have them all at once . ’ |
| 17 | Sometimes Matthew or Luke depart from Mark 's order of events but never at the same time together and they always return to it . |
| 18 | ‘ They campaigned throughout the 19th century for ladies ' lavatories , which were gradually introduced — but never on the same scale as the gents . ’ |