Example sentences of "yet [prep] [art] [det] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I often hear and read stories of anglers spending weeks on end in search of Fenland zander with very little to show for it and yet with a little thought they could be catching on a regular basis . |
| 2 | In 110 we find straightforward confession : Yet in the same sentence we find specious self-excuses : ‘ but , by all above ’ , — this unusual oath , calling the heavens to witness , is an anticipatory give-away — Well , the disbelieving reader will say , to claim that you betrayed your partner merely to test your love for him , which has supposedly been increased by the experiment — this is to add insult to injury . |
| 3 | And yet in the same lecture he had expressed his belief that the tradition of which he spoke was drawing to a close ; and , in the poem , the encounter with the familiar but only half-glimpsed figure is charged with a sense of transitoriness and loss : |
| 4 | Doctrinally , the canons were undeniably Calvinist in outlook ; yet at the same time they expressed some ambivalence over the doctrine of predestination , and hinted at a recognition of the potentially damaging consequences of it being inadequately or incorrectly explained to the laity . |
| 5 | Yet at the same time they welcomed the way the study mapped out areas on concern , in relation to the respective responsibilities of company directors executive and non-executive , auditors and shareholders , much of which remain unaddressed even after the Cadbury report . |
| 6 | The British could only watch and hope , yet at the same time they provoked some American complaints that their instinctive reaction in an emergency was to look for a compromise . |
| 7 | There had already been a kerfuffle over the pornographic ones ; they could n't be included in the facsimile edition and yet at the same time it could hardly be called a complete edition if they were n't there . |
| 8 | As with all good day dreams you were confident that one day this world would materialize and yet at the same time it seemed as unattainable as another planet . |
| 9 | Yet at the same time it reminded her all too clearly of something she was dreading more and more . |
| 10 | It has antiseptic properties to help fight pimples , acts like a cleanser because it draws dirt out of pores , yet at the same time it moisturises and softens too . |
| 11 | ‘ There was plenty of flak over the target area , and I kept looking at my useless chute , yet at the same time it was treated as a huge joke by us all , with the rest of the crew saying that no way was I going down with any of them if need be ! |
| 12 | In addressing the problem of how British headhunting firms , in competition with the multinational search companies , were able to create and develop a sustained demand for headhunting services , it would be unnecessarily long-winded and tedious to examine every one in detail , yet at the same time it would be sketchy and uninformative to list them all briefly without analysis , and the basic information is given in the Select Directory . |
| 13 | Yet at the same time it created a potential new ‘ problem ’ with regard to how ownership of land was to be transferred . |
| 14 | Repeated use is perceived as necessary in order to survive , yet at the same time it contributes to further decline . |
| 15 | Earlier Liberal Democrat Simon Hughes said that in a month Mr Lamont could announce proposals which would make 10 million people ineligible for legal aid yet at the same time he had been ‘ allowed £4,000 , his own private legal aid scheme , to pay his own private bill for an entirely private matter ’ . |
| 16 | Yet at the same time he was edging back from his long concern with heroic valour , or hobbitic moral courage . |
| 17 | He examined her carapace , her tough coiled-spring legs ; and knew that he was examining Meh'Lindi intimately , yet at the same time he was n't . |
| 18 | They were all questions which both puzzled and disturbed him , yet at the same time he knew she was the key to helping him expose the diversion at the plant . |
| 19 | The President issued a series of neutrality proclamations , yet at the same time he persuaded Congress to extend the " cash and carry " principle to include armaments . |
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| 21 | Because I could n't countenance how you could stay under water without being asphyxiated , and yet at the same time I was incapable of comprehending the trick . |
| 22 | ‘ Yet at the same time I imagined what the celebrations would be like at Molineux . |
| 23 | Yet at the same time there is work done upon it , he wrote , and which remains , as it does not in the mind . |
| 24 | Yet at the same time there was discontinuity , for Jesus taught ‘ not as the scribes ’ , for unlike them his message was self-authenticating . |
| 25 | Yet at the same time she knew that she actually was Martha — she felt like Martha deep within her and had , in fact , completely forgotten why she was being hypnotized and regressed . |
| 26 | She felt an absolute wreck , yet at the same time she felt acutely self-aware . |
| 27 | Emma had sprung round from her crouching position now ; her whole body was trembling , yet at the same time she looked taut . |
| 28 | Yet at the same time his work began to display doubts and uncertainty : the oils produced in 1949 are uneven , their coarseness at times less deliberate than despairing . |
| 29 | Yet at the same time his remark provoked a traitorous pang of delight . |