Example sentences of "[conj] yet [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet private sector organisations are also political in the sense of competition between ideas and individuals within the organisation . |
| 2 | And yet other music , especially in opera , may have abrupt , rapid changes which are deliberately designed to throw our emotions into turmoil . |
| 3 | And yet serious degeneration of nerves in young children with ABL can be halted by massive doses of the vitamin . |
| 4 | The supply of international liquidity is of concern since sufficient finance must be available to assist the development of trade , and yet excess liquidity should be avoided since it may stimulate inflation . |
| 5 | In the Lower Primary we welcome and introduce the children to school life in a relaxed , happy and yet well-disciplined environment . |
| 6 | Behind the differences — which are often more of language and emphasis than of substance — there may be a common view that God is One , present in the world and yet transcending it , personal lord or saviour or protector and yet impersonal reality . |
| 7 | One very exciting and yet subtle way to treat the subject is to keep to one main colour but to introduce it in all its different shades and tones . |
| 8 | The gentle and yet rapid response that one achieves has to be experienced to be understood . |
| 9 | The dramatic and yet equivocal significance of Martial Law — restoring Socialist order whilst forestalling Soviet invasion — has allowed Jaruzelski to remain faithful , at least in appearance , to the ideal of the LWP as guardian of both national and Communist values . |
| 10 | The second attempt was much shorter and hit off , I thought , the right balance between regretful practicality and yet sufficient affection and desire for her still to want to climb into bed if I got half a chance . |
| 11 | Our starting point for analysing structure happens to have been with an exercise , the form of drama popularised by Brian Way , and yet little attempt has so far been made by him or by anyone else to show how these apparently slight adjustments within the structure of the exercise can seriously affect the outcome . |
| 12 | The darkness of the beginning of the poem is suddenly illuminated to a ‘ low stream-line brightness ’ towards the end when she picks up speed and moves from a misty , black and yet dignified depression to a kind of elation . |
| 13 | The very notion , however , ran counter to the sodden , melancholy , and yet enduring spirit of the Reach . |
| 14 | Jonathon Blagrave had inflicted his extrovert and yet popular company on several of Reading 's alehouses that evening , before crossing Caversham Bridge on his journey home . |
| 15 | An instrument of smaller but yet great importance was the " talkie cinema " acquired by the School at about the same time . |
| 16 | He conquered him so completely that the man now housed him , clothed , fed and supported him and used every spare minute to coach and prepare him for some as yet unrevealed greatness . |
| 17 | It is the United States , rather than the USSR , which is significantly dependent on Latin America for its raw materials , and Moscow 's interest in this respect is largely confined to the as yet unexplored potential of Antarctica . |
| 18 | The notion that clients could be rated on a dimension of how worried they were about their symptoms of stress ( physical , cognitive , behavioural ) as opposed to how worried they were about factors which caused those symptoms ( Stress 's , Life Events , etc. ) is an interesting and as yet unexplored area . |
| 19 | But the as yet unanswered question remains — does the political and commercial will to change our ways exist ? |
| 20 | In 1953 , such a territory was alien , almost invisible , a schizo-world of as yet unimagined pleasure ; yet today it is disturbingly familiar , this condition described by Jameson as living ‘ in a perpetual present and in a perpetual change that obliterates traditions of the kind which all earlier social formations have had in one way or another to preserve ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ Not wanting to attract any more attention than necessary in an as yet unannounced vehicle , he accelerated to gain some distance . ’ |
| 22 | The exhibition displays the as yet unwritten history of painting in the two Germanies , combining as it does abstract expressionists like H.Bachmayer , H.Prem and H.Sturm from the Munich ‘ Herzogstraße ’ group with works by C.Claus , G.Kozik , M.Morgner and S.Volmer from Chemnitz in Saxony . |
| 23 | A draft letter to his publisher Katkov — the fair copy is lost — discusses the plot of the as yet unwritten Crime and Punishment . |
| 24 | This as yet unpublished interview will appear in the show 's catalogue , to be published by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux . |
| 25 | John Deverall ( 1979 ) , in a fascinating but as yet unpublished dissertation on the ‘ Public Medium/Private Process ’ dichotomy , draws our attention to authors such as Richard Sennett ( 1974 ) and Iris Murdoch ( 1970 ) , the former deploring the cult of the individual in modern society and the latter arguing fiercely for the arts as ‘ unselfing ’ . |
| 26 | John Morrill has recently suggested , in an as yet unpublished paper , that the religious history of the period 1640 to 1660 can be usefully viewed as a revolt by large numbers of the English people against the more rigid applications of the doctrines of predestination and perseverance . |
| 27 | Party leaders face a dilemma over whether to continue their search , already discussed in private meetings in Washington , for an as yet undeclared candidate in time for their convention in July . |
| 28 | He may well have heard in some reach of his mind an as yet uncreated harmony , as a composer hears the music that he is about to translate into sound . |
| 29 | If she withholds beyond their as yet limited capacity for tolerance , their continuing rage seeks only to destroy what is in her . |
| 30 | So I 'll simply suggest , on as yet limited evidence , that of the present nap-hand or so of offspinners with the apparent potential to elevate their status . |