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 .
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