Example sentences of "and yet so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knows there are times when we feel so deeply and yet so confusedly that we can not frame petitions , but simply come in silent pleading to the Lord . |
| 2 | To be so close to a girl and yet so rarely be able to caress her . |
| 3 | Bourani seemed greenly remote from all that ; so far , and yet so near ; its small mysteries , which grew smaller as the week passed , no more than an added tang , or hazard , in its other promise of civilized pleasure . |
| 4 | His mouth encompassed hers once again as he drove into her , so shockingly abrupt and yet so incredibly sensual . |
| 5 | This must be the watchword of the Western democracies who have so painfully and yet so necessarily dismantled Saddam Hussein 's war machine , at such a cost in lives and scarce resources . |
| 6 | This is the chapter of the Secret Weapon — a weapon so powerful and yet so readily available . |
| 7 | Not easy for us , was what she 'd been warning me , being so near and yet so far , so tantalizingly inaccessible to each other . |
| 8 | What did he do after being so close and yet so far ? |
| 9 | It was n't just the defeat , how near and yet so far away . |
| 10 | So an extra place was laid , and Jennifer allowed to sit between Jill and Nathan , with Matthew pulling faces to amuse her from across the table and Tristram in a flame of embarrassment at having her so near and yet so far . |
| 11 | So near and yet so far . |
| 12 | By now Dr Neil was in an agony of desire , the loved one in his arms , so near and yet so far — But not so far as he thought , for McAllister suddenly wanted more from him than he was giving . |
| 13 | Brian Roper 's unsuccessful spot kick perpetuated the agony for the Donegal boys who had once again come so near and yet so far , losing their third final in a row . |
| 14 | SO NEAR AND YET SO FAR ! |
| 15 | Although the image of the Trinity is distorted , its powers are not destroyed and this is the activity of God in the soul — the ability to understand what could be , and to desire it : But it is a question of " so near and yet so far " as Hilton adds that man is not near Christ or in him until he has actually found him . |
| 16 | So near and yet so far . |
| 17 | But the timber remained jammed and the tiles continued to languish , tantalisingly so near and yet so far away . |
| 18 | It was n't a case of missing sitters and throwing away chances more of being so near and yet so far . |
| 19 | Life on the Swindon bench has been full of heartbreak this season … so near and yet so far … it 's not so long ago that Town were winning week in week out … tomorrow they 've got Newcastle at home and back in the first division days they were no problem … 2-1 Swindon beat them last March |
| 20 | Life on the Swindon bench has been full of heartbreak this season … so near and yet so far … it 's not so long ago that Town were winning week in week out … tomorrow they 've got Newcastle at home and back in the first division days they were no problem … 2-1 Swindon beat them last March |
| 21 | So near and yet so far … that sums Saturday up for all three of our teams … |
| 22 | IT was a case of so near and yet so far for Linfield at Windsor Park last night . |
| 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 | So glorious and yet so very real that if we by faith , and if we have by faith looked to Jesus Christ dying on the cross for us and received him , now , not there of course , but risen , and ascended , and glorified is promising that we ha will pass , or we have passed from death unto life . |
| 25 | There are few children who do not experience the death of a much-loved grandparent or pet when they are quite young , and yet so often they are excluded from all the changes that go on at the time of a grandparent 's death , as though in some way this will leave them unaffected . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | At its most basic , that vital component is to confront all three problems together : simple , even self-evident , and yet so often ignored in a construction climate where the all-powerful big developers tend to be more interested in low-cost employment than low-cost housing and both central and local government treat each problem in not-so-splendid isolation . |
| 28 | Much of it is awful and yet so technically good . |
| 29 | Maybe to lift guilt from bowed shoulders ; to put light and hope where there was deep-seated despair ; or to so simply and yet so vitally make them know that like any other human being , they are entitled to ‘ choice ’ — and actually have it . |
| 30 | It was odd , she thought , that scientists so often were n't religious when their work revealed a world so variously marvellous and yet so mysteriously unified and at one . |