Example sentences of "but they [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | The Polish presence in the city may have been small , but they made the most of it . |
2 | You could also find some letters that were confused , they did n't share common features but they sounded the same and they tended to be confused as well There was a lot of enthusiasm from the work of the neuro-psychologist th with the discovery of cells which appeared to be sensitive to particular features . |
3 | They did give me the name of the hospital Salome was in and the taller one told me that the accident had happened ‘ just off the M20 near Wrotham ’ , but they had no more details , they were just running errands for the Kent police . |
4 | Clients in Ipswich were a little older than in Newham , but they had the same mean OBS score ( see Table 2.3 ) . |
5 | Their clothing and equipment was more functional , but they carried the same pattern of long sword . |
6 | Reports may be brief or lengthy but they follow the same pattern . |
7 | Only 300,000 cereal farms would be too large to qualify for full compensation — but they farm no less than half of the EC 's cereals fields and produce almost two-thirds of its cereals crop . |
8 | Er okay , different words to describe the same and indeed they did n't take out of any fund , but they achieved the same end result . |
9 | They 've got a different atomic weight , cos they 've got a different number of neutrons , but they got the same number of protons and they 've got the same pattern of electrons , and the pattern of those outer electrons is what decides its chemical properties . |
10 | But they mean something entirely different but they say the same words . |
11 | Izzie stood up , ready to play again , but they wanted no more dances . |
12 | 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 ) . |
13 | But they have the same source . |
14 | One was a hunt for witches , the other for Communists , but they involve the same function of the human mind . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |