Example sentences of "but [adj] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | The auction houses employ considerable skill to ensure that the best possible prices are obtained for their clients , but all the same , a good eye and a well-stocked memory may still outwit their expertise . |
| 2 | You can not expect a reference book to be quite as gripping as an adventure novel , but all the same I read it cover to cover . |
| 3 | You know we only imported a small amount but all the same there was always enough to meet demand . |
| 4 | But is Mr Kinnock wise , having trimmed — having trimmed to a wiser policy , but all the same egregiously trimmed — is he wise to insist that the British people respect Labour for the changes it has made ? |
| 5 | Yes , he did see , but all the same it had to be stopped … somehow . |
| 6 | But all the same , Mr Browning thought it wise that she should send to the Ogilvys a letter for Gigia to carry in which both she and Ferdinando formally requested the return of their young son and gave her power to remove him from the care of his aunt and conduct him to Italy . |
| 7 | His leg seemed to have stopped bleeding , or very nearly , and he could n't have severed an artery or he 'd have bled to death by now , but all the same there had to be a pretty serious wound under the cloth of his trousers and the faster I could get him to a doctor the better . |
| 8 | He would have used a common wood , not exotic , but all the same , there would be more of it to be found , perhaps even in the cabinet he was making of bleached oak . |
| 9 | These have no near friends or relatives to part from , and the future is bright for each ; but all the same , a lump comes in one 's throat as the train steams out of the station amid cheering and the strains of ‘ Auld Lang Syne ’ . |
| 10 | We always went out in twos and threes , for obvious reasons , but all the same by the time we were approaching the field we had collected a following of about a dozen . |
| 11 | But all the same , it was fun to telephone home from Huntingdon that evening and electrify the family by saying , ‘ You 'll never guess where I 've just been ! ’ and listen to their admiring and incredulous comments . |
| 12 | I suppose , as the man said , with at least a quarter of a million at stake they ca n't afford to , but all the same , it was n't very pleasant . |
| 13 | But all the same … |
| 14 | But all the same … |
| 15 | But all the same I could n't make such a move without giving it some thought , ’ Paula said grandly . |
| 16 | But all the same , these minds are drawn from the great ocean of the Universal Mind . |
| 17 | This did not prove possible , but all the same the camp was soon in full swing . |
| 18 | She was a grown woman and she had always prided herself on her common sense , but all the same … |
| 19 | Getting undersaddle pickups to reproduce highs is easy , coping with the lows is more difficult , and coping with the mids — the Lowden 's strongest point — is more difficult still , but all the same the EMG provides a high-quality representation of the LSE 's warm , woody acoustic tone . |
| 20 | Peter Lawrence , vice-chairman of the East Anglian branch of the Railway Development Society , said : ‘ From the commuter 's point of view that is very welcome , but all the same we do understand the concerns within the union about the present situation . |
| 21 | But all the same , it is more neighbourly to ask first . |
| 22 | He had heard so many stories of musket balls lodging in Bibles , not of course that he really believed them , but all the same What he wanted to do now was to find some immoral passages with which to confront the Padre , thereby proving to him that this book could not possibly be the word of God ( unadulterated , anyway ) . |
| 23 | The Collector 's eye came to rest on the corner where Miriam lay ; she was too weak to help Dr McNab now , but although she could no longer be of any service to the ailing figures who lay nearby , she had refused to let the Collector move her mattress up to the dais where the air was better and where cholera clouds would be less likely to hang ( if such things existed , which of course they had been proved not to by Dr McNab , but all the same … ) . |
| 24 | I argued earlier that there are problems in attempting any rigorous theoretical definition of the ‘ manual work/mental work ’ , or ‘ manual/non-manual ’ , distinction but all the same this classification , conceived as a socially constructed principle of division , has a certain social validity , as least as it applies to male workers . |
| 25 | This does not reflect a radical social openness or free circulation of agents between social positions , since the offspring of the higher occupational grades still have a much greater relative chance of ending up in those grades than people from lower occupational backgrounds , but all the same it represents de facto social mobility on a large scale . |
| 26 | But all the same , leaving was hard . |
| 27 | But all the same — not that way . |
| 28 | But all the same , it was hard . |
| 29 | The fact that she was doing this and not looking at her old friend made her doubts about this statement less evident , but all the same my mother protested . |
| 30 | We shall never go there , we shall never dare to go there , but all the same , we like to hear of it . |