Example sentences of "but [vb past] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that they are not gods exactly , but made of the same stuff as gods . |
| 2 | Firms like ICI or Ford might , as in earlier years , have been able to build larger or more technically advanced sets for their own electricity supplies , but faced with the same shortages of steel and skilled men as the supply industry , they were now less inclined to branch out in this way , particularly as the BEA were selling electricity to them at prices based on historic costs , even though the new power stations were costing more . |
| 3 | The land scorpions were not direct descendants , but belonged to the same broad group and certainly shared the same savage habits . |
| 4 | Cautiously she admitted it but said in the same breath that it was of no consequence because her father had died for political reasons . |
| 5 | But quoted as the same size alright ? |
| 6 | There was a tension in Tawney 's thought between the demands of the exceptional , the wasted talents of children denied access to secondary education by poverty and lack of provision , and the demands and needs of the average , who had no secondary education at all , but subsisted on the same educational diet throughout their school career . |
| 7 | He did n't run but hurried in the same direction , and he kept him in view until Joe disappeared into the belt of woodland . |
| 8 | Similarly , a motherless Glasgow soldier 's daughter was taken in by her grandparents and brought up with the help of an aunt , who married soon after but stayed in the same home . |