Example sentences of "yet [prep] [art] same [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Yet during the same period only £3.8bn was spent on providing , improving and maintaining Britain 's road network .
2 She felt drained , both physically and mentally , yet at the same time strangely exhilarated .
3 ‘ As a breed , ‘ Charlies ’ are very gentle , and yet at the same time strong willed .
4 Instead curriculum development centres were set up , physically separate from the Inspectorate and possessing some degree of autonomy , yet at the same time firmly established under Ministry control .
5 Because he is of the establishment — yet , like Greene , he operates on the margins ; because he is outwardly well presented and benign yet at the same time frequently boiling with rage ; because he writes a crystalline yet subtly dandified prose which does n't give up secrets easily .
6 She lay motionless , utterly worn out by her exertions , yet at the same time ominously wide awake .
7 She was sad in advance , and yet at the same time all the happier , doubly happy , for knowing that she recognized her happiness , that it was not slipping by her unheeded , for knowing that she was creating for herself a past .
8 Thus Justin Martyr , writing around A.D. 150 , speaks of those who regard Jesus as having been the Messiah , yet at the same time still a man .
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