Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] yet [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other composers did not yet differentiate so sharply between secular and sacred idioms ; even Palestrina introduced madrigalian elements — with beautiful effect — in his settings from the Song of Songs , while Victoria toward the end of his life , in 1600 , broke into a much more surprisingly secular vein in a Missa pro victoria with organ , modelled on Janequin 's ‘ La guerre ’ . |
| 2 | Viz comic did not yet exist , though to celebrate our 10th birthday they have specially drawn this moving portrait of The Fat Slags at school . |
| 3 | The first section of the M1 had been opened in 1959 , but the M4 did not yet exist . |
| 4 | However , in September when he first saw the chemists ' proposal the ‘ good ’ data did not yet exist , indeed , did not exist until early in the new year . |
| 5 | Paul-Henri Spaak , back as premier of Belgium , suggested that since the EDC Assembly did not yet exist , the Assembly of the ECSC could turn itself into an ad hoc EDC body specifically to consider a more wide-ranging political cooperation . |
| 6 | The case against ITV had initially to be made against something that did not yet exist . |
| 7 | A settled administrative capital did not yet exist . |
| 8 | The French Algerian and Congo wars were in full swing ; performance art did not yet exist but she incorporated tear gas for the grand finale of her shooting performances . |
| 9 | The Pittagora women did not yet swim , and airless midsummer found them sequestered in their shuttered , marble-floored apartment in Rupe , emerging only before the sun gathered strength to go to market or to Mass , or after its heat had dimmed in the evening to stroll under the acacia trees with the rest of the town 's gentry , while their servants sat in doorways on wooden chairs , commenting aloud . |
| 10 | Mr Dienstbier said the new Prime Minister , Mr Marian Calfa , did not yet appear to be a ‘ strong and flexible politician ’ , and indicated he would be acceptable in the post only on condition that President Gustav Husak step down , to be replaced by a non-Communist head of state . |
| 11 | Secondly , they were treating babies as not yet formed adults since their nervous system did not yet contain all the adult structures which they imagined , without any evidence , would be necessary before one could have an unpleasant emotional experience . |
| 12 | Economists said trade figures did not yet reflect much of the yen 's recent rise against the dollar but the effect of the yen 's rise could figure in the March and April trade figures . |
| 13 | That he intended her to be the sensation of town Dinah did not yet realise , but if she had done so it would not have disturbed her . |
| 14 | The fact that the lane runs so wide and straight also tells us that when it came into existence the open arable fields of Barton and Wootton did not yet extend so far . |
| 15 | Only his sighting of Kingdom in Lindos five days before Heather 's disappearance did he withhold : he did not yet want to test Zohra 's loyalty too severely . |
| 16 | But they did not yet feel able to go through with changes in their actual behaviour . |
| 17 | We can rediscover the continuity of time only in the novels of that period when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded . |
| 18 | And those were just the British issues , which did not yet include a conventional album . |
| 19 | In their 1958 diet ( which did not yet include so many top feature films or so much news ) , men gave their highest preferences to sport , plays , news , travel , variety , documentaries , westerns and current affairs , and their lowest to serious music , religion and science . |
| 20 | But all this did not yet add up to a widespread expectation in London that Anglo-American relations would or should retain their wartime intimacy . |
| 21 | He had a busy day ahead of him , and although he did not yet know it , he would not be able to get back to bed until nearly twenty-four hours later . |
| 22 | I would leave this drab and unhappy employment in St Andrew 's House — for what I did not yet know . |
| 23 | As she did so she realised she did not yet know the name of their unexpected guest . |
| 24 | A Metropolitan authority said that they did not yet know how much their training allocation from the central training budget would be , as training is organized to coincide with the academic year . |
| 25 | Mrs Priestley said they did not yet know the identity of the donor but she and her husband would like to express their gratitude to the donor 's family . |
| 26 | He did not yet know whether Edward wished him to bring to Wales any of his nobles of Champagne to serve there . |
| 27 | Two- and three-year-olds , who did not yet know less , were not as consistent , and their responses to less and tiv — and possibly to more as well — suggested that , in the absence of lexical knowledge , they were probably relying on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater amount ( Trehub and Abramovitch , 1978 ) . |
| 28 | And though Tutilo did not yet know what lay in store for him , nevertheless he could not be quite sure this apparently joyous return would be the end of it . |
| 29 | She did n't because the moment was not right ; she did not yet know that she could not plead from her position of privilege that she had suffered too — ‘ So you want to annex our wrongs as well , do you ? ’ he might well have answered to her in just bitterness . |
| 30 | The sheets smelt of Croisset — that place which I did not yet know would be forbidden to me ; there was a petal between two of my toes , and a thin scratch down the inside of my right thigh . |