Example sentences of "yet [prep] [art] same [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet to a very large extent German efforts were contradictory : Völkisch opinion wished Germany to remain as it was and yet somehow to return to the past ; they wanted to return to the past yet at the same time wished for the power to behave as they pleased . |
| 2 | A more immediate issue concerns the consequences for labour of a structure which gives priority to flexibility yet at the same time promises a lifetime of permanent employment which seems to imply inflexibility . |
| 3 | He attempts to resolve the problem by affirming his belief in the ideal on the grounds that man 's life is an aspiration or a striving for , perfection , yet at the same time recognizing that in an imperfect world one has to make concessions to , or to cater for , human weakness . |
| 4 | It was a practice requiring the submission of the lower classes on the street , yet at the same time reflecting subordination of the constables to the whims of senior officers and to a manipulative body of law . |
| 5 | He was standing quite still , feeling both paralysed and yet at the same time filled with a flood of energy . |
| 6 | His deliberately quiet voice , and the apparent detachment with which his hands were moving over her body , frightened her and yet at the same time heightened the eroticism of the moment . |
| 7 | If we believe in God yet at the same time presuppose a picture of God which is less than he really is , our faith is bound to suffer . |
| 8 | For many British people of my generation , the sight of great ships sailing for a remote theatre of action , their rails lined with cheering soldiers , at once evoked echoes of convoys leaving for Africa or the Far East , yet at the same time produced surprise at the media coverage and the openness with which these preparatory stages , and indeed the later fighting , appeared to be reported . |
| 9 | All the blood drained from Folly 's face as she listened , straining for the meaning that eluded her ears , and yet at the same time knowing that there could be no innocent explanation . |
| 10 | When she thought about them , she saw devils as small creatures with hooves and a tail , horned and two-legged and yet at the same time resembling tadpoles . |
| 11 | The word was said with such vehemence , yet at the same time sounded so funny , that he almost laughed . |
| 12 | She hesitated , sadly , desperately anxious to accept , absurdly delighted that he had asked her , that he had so coolly bothered to cross the room to ask her , and yet at the same time horrified by the thought of displaying herself , by the thought of dragging her hideous dress from its hole-in-the-corner obscurity , by the thought of dancing at all , for she did not know how to dance . |
| 13 | " How strange it is , " mused Fleury , feeling the futility of everything yet at the same time enjoying the feeling , " that these millions of wings , with all their wonderful machinery of nerves and muscles , should be made to serve the purpose of a single flight . |
| 14 | Or again , someone may honestly put himself under the lordship of Christ yet at the same time adhere to a Christian lifestyle or espouse Christian values which by temperament or nationality he would be likely to appreciate anyway . |
| 15 | She wanted him to stop yet at the same time wanted him to go on in the hope that the lovely sensations would begin again . |
| 16 | As the son of a school-inspector and a typical representative of the pre-Soviet intelligentsia , Lenin was torn between the conflicting needs of creating a politically and culturally conscious nation as fast as possible , yet at the same time ensuring that vulgarized , superficial agitation did not become a substitute for thoroughgoing education on a broad base . |
| 17 | Quite convinced that meeting you would dispel the fantasy , and yet at the same time did n't want that to happen at all . |
| 18 | Our duty is to secure the best return we possibly can or on , on our investments and yet at the same time to have regard to the aims and objectives of the Council itself . |
| 19 | We can smile , yet at the same time feel the sting of such a recognition of discrimination , intolerance and bigotry . |
| 20 | The leader must choose a suitable spread to get a borrower 's loan business and yet at the same time convince participating banks that it is a realistic return relative to the loan risk(s) involved . |
| 21 | It makes the tragedy even more complete , yet at the same time contains the seeds of hope . |
| 22 | At present there seems to be a contradiction in these ideas since the current ideology stresses growth policy on the one hand yet at the same time supports the notion of tradition . |
| 23 | I suppose when they string together every possible Celtic cliché , you can only sit back and submit knowing that the stereotype is so overplayed as to be utterly ridiculous , yet at the same time resenting the perpetration of it . |
| 24 | For the new post-war ideology of consumption to be stimulated it was necessary for women to remain in the home , yet at the same time to enter the labour market to supplement the ‘ main income ’ to sustain the family 's purchasing power . |
| 25 | Northern GRAMOPHONE readers ( and surely many southerners as well ) will join me in welcoming back to the catalogue the first of James Loughran 's Hallé Orchestra has always shown a special feeling for Brahms 's sound , and Loughran is also a highly responsive Brahmsian , flexibly spontaneous in his sense of line , yet at the same time demonstrating a comparable structural grasp . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the example points up the paradox of the advantage to the teacher of having to experience new learning alongside and in co-operation with the children , and yet at the same time having to be an expert in the subject . |
| 27 | What such an identification involved becomes apparent in Prisoner in a passage which renders the crucial difference not one of colour , yet by the same criterion reinstates the distinction between blacks and whites : ‘ What separates us from the Blacks today is not so much the colour of our skin or the type of our hair as the phantom-ridden psyche we never see except when a Black lets fall some joking and to us cryptic phrase . |