Example sentences of "[adj] and yet [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fired again , calm and yet so full of fear , so full of fear I forget how often I fired . |
| 2 | It 's a fairly thick 1″ , but the beauty of basswood is that you can be quite generous and yet still keep the overall weight down . |
| 3 | His mouth encompassed hers once again as he drove into her , so shockingly abrupt and yet so incredibly sensual . |
| 4 | In that spirit , John Davenport , that lazy , combative and yet most perceptive of critics , wrote to me saying that he almost hoped not to have to share his pleasure in this book with too many other people . |
| 5 | ‘ You are so foreign and yet so familiar . |
| 6 | Most fountains shoot water into the air , but a quite modest feature known as a pebble fountain is most restrained and yet very attractive . |
| 7 | He could still see her quite clearly , the outline of her legs , the soft rise and fall of her breasts with her gentle breathing , the way she looked at him , like a rabbit with a rattlesnake , half afraid and yet too fascinated to run . |
| 8 | An investigation of the knowledge and uses of natural resources by the indigenous population of Temburong district , which preserves a rare example of accessible and yet otherwise relatively undisturbed tropical lowland rainforest . |
| 9 | Thus the learning that follows is personal and yet highly meaningful to the individual . |
| 10 | He stood there in the shadows , posed , a Rembrandt , disturbingly authentic and yet enormously out of place — a heavy , solemn man with a reddish face . |
| 11 | It is so simple and yet so effective . |
| 12 | I realised this the first time I saw her dressed up to go out — excited , nervous and yet so alive . |
| 13 | One minute a mere tomboy Neighbour with a habit of putting a spanner in the works , the next Kylie was an overnight sensation , a pop princess with the Midas touch , so ordinary and yet so electrifying . |
| 14 | Much of it is awful and yet so technically good . |
| 15 | ‘ The importance of maintenance as a specialist element within the sphere of building is undeniable and yet so often we are portrayed as unprofessional and given little credence . |
| 16 | And he will find all sorts of possible explanations for the choice of godparents who are friends of the non-Christian couple , equally non-religious and yet quite happy to vow that they will , in the name of the child , renounce the devil and all his works , the vain pomp and glory of the world , with all covetous desires of the same , and the carnal desires of the flesh , so that they will not follow , nor be led by them . |
| 17 | She was wheeled to the lift , with Belinda at her side , and it felt strange and yet very familiar to be plunged into the atmosphere of a large hospital again after four months away . |
| 18 | All four still look as though they 'd be more comfortable in jail than in a rhinestone suit , while their voices remain wonderfully battered instruments — weathered , stoic and yet still full of yearning . |
| 19 | The fact that Black Fury had been too controversial and yet too muddled to scoop up the prizes did not mean that it was time for Warner Bros to stop being ‘ sociologically-minded ’ . |
| 20 | Wearing grease paint , he appeared younger and yet more sinister . |
| 21 | Indeed , for this reason one can usefully add Mozart 's Don Giovanni and Bizet 's Carmen to the above list : the use ( in land-locked , mountainous Salzburg ) of a nocturnal seascape as the backdrop to Act III of Carmen was one of Karajan 's strangest and yet most haunting intimations of eternity . |
| 22 | They give a clear picture of the identity of Christ , show the radical all-or-nothing nature of commitment to him , describe the life of discipleship as a corporate not individualistic activity , spell out the cost involved , and show how our present experience relates to the Kingdom of God , which is both present and yet still to come . |
| 23 | As Professor Fred Halliday of the London School of Economics points out above , The Gulf Region is so crucial to us all and yet so very volatile . |
| 24 | He disturbed her , because he was not handsome , he was ugly ; he was not gallant , he was cynical ; he was not worthwhile at all and yet inescapably she was in love with him . |
| 25 | His touch was feather-light and yet deeply compelling . |
| 26 | Casual and yet somehow extraordinarily classy . |
| 27 | She was just like me , she had been told that her prognosis was good and yet here she was four years later . |
| 28 | This man who somehow made her feel so good and yet so bad , all at the same time . |
| 29 | He had been fiercely possessive , racked by an agony of passionate wanting and yet somehow retaining sufficient control to assert his mastery , denying her fulfilment , waiting until she was almost weeping with desire , as if he needed to hear her husky throbbing pleas confirming his dominion in the relationship . |
| 30 | Paradoxically , one of the biggest , says Thomas Davenport , a management consultant with Ernst & Young and one of the earliest advocates of re-engineering , is a company 's existing computer system , which can be so complex and yet so central to the firm 's business that it is too expensive and too risky to scrap entirely ( though not always — see box ) . |