Example sentences of "yet [pron] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deafening silence greeted their first efforts , yet nothing dissuaded the instrument-swapping Boston crew . |
| 2 | ‘ I recognize that there can be no future for us together and yet I know a great fondness for the prince — a fondness that time , I suspect , will not lessen . ’ |
| 3 | Yet I see the mundane matter of the script quite clearly . |
| 4 | Yet I remembered a pale-green crepe dress with rosebuds on it that was too tight under the arms and prickly round the neck , and a navy-blue sailor suit with a white collar that chafed . |
| 5 | But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her . |
| 6 | Life itself added the boldest brush strokes and when , finally , he , Jack Nicholson in person , confronts the world , there is the most awesome feeling of encountering a man of unquestionable charm , intelligence and friendship , yet who possesses an indefinable menace that can only be compared with some of the roles he has acted . |
| 7 | He spun symbols bright as sugar-crystals : the poor , dim brothers who were not human yet who spun the glassy fibres ten times the tensile strength of steel along which optical messages could be sent , for surgeons , for miners ; or incredibly strong strands to link the orbiting colonies . |
| 8 | When I was lately a little kind to you and you carried yourself so foolishly , did I not tell you you should say nothing of what passed to any creature , and yet you made a common talk of the matter ? |
| 9 | Yet you got a proper kitchen upstairs . |
| 10 | You were a professional nurse , she said , and yet you assaulted an old woman who was blind , confused and bed-ridden . |
| 11 | And yet you slew a simple Fly , |
| 12 | She is unable to define a radical alternative to agricultural improvement , yet she makes an interesting defence of the rights which are being threatened . |
| 13 | As yet we have no convincing evidence that this is the case . |
| 14 | As yet we have no agreed criteria for how much disruption a single lesion needs to cause for the system to be deemed interactive , although common sense suggests that an interactive system would be much more vulnerable to disruption than the brain appears to be . |
| 15 | As yet we have no comparable word processor for the PC to anything available for the Macintosh in terms of true WYSIWYG and mixed text and graphics capabilities . |
| 16 | But the same theoretical physics predicts white holes , and yet we have no experimental evidence in favour of what should be far more obvious objects . |
| 17 | The trouble with all panspermic theories is that they look to outer space , yet we have no particular reason to believe that life could not have emerged right here on our own world . |
| 18 | Now that , we never get any credit for it and yet we did an awful lot of work . |
| 19 | Yet we experience a great sense of loss , if we only let go of this intellect reluctantly and in fact would rather nurture it than shed it . |
| 20 | Yet there remains an important element of truth in the observation , ‘ another shall gird thee and carry thee whither thou wouldst not ’ . |
| 21 | Yet there raged the good captain , demanding satisfaction over a minor matter of bread , when I promise you that the King will pay far less heed to my action than he will when he hears of yours . |
| 22 | Yet there remained a fierce energy in her , which allowed her , now , her time growing near , to walk the miles from Islington , stride over the rough grass at last with increasing ease . |
| 23 | What I find strange is that England have got nothing to do with our tour of Ireland and Wales , yet they get the big game and all the money . ’ |
| 24 | Yet they know the legal position is less than clear . |
| 25 | Yet they became an instant success , and their following visits established them as among the very top Festival favourites of the 1980s . |
| 26 | Yet they played an important part in providing an entrée for headhunting to the Boardrooms of Britain . |
| 27 | These tacit understandings , which , in Sidney Low 's graphic phrase , are so often misunderstood , may not be written down ; yet they exert a normative influence upon those concerned with central/local relations comparable to , and perhaps greater than , the influence exerted by a constitutional document . |
| 28 | Yet they had an added burden . |
| 29 | Johnson 's reflections under the heading of ‘ Coriatachan in Sky ’ amount to only eighteen hundred words or so , yet they constitute the clearest view of him I have had so far , the best opportunity to try and assess what made him . |
| 30 | They want them to be more responsible , more self-determining , to take matters into their own hands , and yet they oppose the only thing the tenants have of their own — organisation . |