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

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1 In 1962 the increase in population had been 1,172 but in the same year only nineteen new houses had been built ; land had to be found for new housing .
2 It must be tight-fitting but at the same time easy to remove , for as the caterpillars grow they will consume enormous amounts of nettles .
3 They 're Italian , they 're 25 years old but at the same time brand new …
4 These problems demand intensive treatment — moisturising and nourishing but at the same time non-oily .
5 I remember Shostakovich was so nervous but at the same time so impressed .
6 Crouching below the plain embattled tower these ancient cottages , built with traditional rubble walling stone and roofing tiles , gave the old grey town a natural but at the same time haphazard unit .
7 Some of it I find a bit er a bit too obvious but in the same way erm on , on the sociology side , I get a bit angry because I see what society does to people .
8 ‘ Playing at the end of the field , being in contention , keeping myself relaxed but at the same time getting the adrenalin running , ’ explained Faldo .
9 The structure shown in the drawing is stable but at the same time it is vulnerable .
10 The hunt for other reasons to explain the behaviour of a Ceauşescu misses the point : he was not ‘ really ’ a patriot or ‘ at heart ’ a reformer , though when he proclaimed that he was at any given moment one thing , he was that but at the same time was the opposite .
11 Liar , I thought , and so feeling a trifle low but at the same time in his debt .
12 A testimony may be fascinating but at the same time quite irrelevant to the basic questions touching on faith and doubt .
13 Then there 's the New York guitar from Patrick Eggle , several hundred pounds cheaper but with the same ugly-is-beautiful appeal , or if you 're strapped for cash then the new Starfields look hard to beat .
14 Mac came in fifth but with the same time as Richard , the Frenchman , and after a British protest he was allowed to go forward as the track had a nine-lane straight .
15 This account of science is indeed overly optimistic but at the same time limited .
16 It is important for the learning process to avoid being prescriptive but at the same time ensure that the alternatives put forward are acceptable .
17 In each of the sifu 's lessons , he tries to teach something new but at the same time revises all the movements and self defence techniques that the students have studied so far .
18 The language of the novel makes use of this cliché to demonstrate first that there is a profound ambiguity in the social construction of femininity according to which women are passive but at the same time subversive of the binary distinction which so construes them , and second that all people , male and female , are condemned to being at least partially the product of the language of others .
19 That means division that 's what , you 've done them right , they 're divisions but three into twelve goes four but at the same time four times three is twelve , you can change it into a multiplication but it , it does n't start off as one .
20 Lillywhite was fourth and Smith ninth but in the same time as the second placed man , ensuring them the top two places overall .
21 He had discovered , however , that it was very exhausting but at the same time , once started , felt that it would be unwise to stop , even for a moment .
22 She 's tender-hearted , generous , vivacious but at the same time she likes to have her own way .
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