Example sentences of "and yet [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know so much about it , from a working point of view , that is , that I ca n't really envisage how it would feel to be such a complete outsider , and yet privately so necessary to someone . |
| 2 | Britain today has a woman Prime Minister and yet just over 70 years ago women were not even able to vote . |
| 3 | I am also so excited , so appalled , so outside myself that I can look down at myself , so peculiarly detached , and yet also so vividly held stickily intact within myself that nothing makes sense and the moments do not join together in any comprehensible scale of time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And yet proportionately more middle-class children enter grammar schools . |
| 6 | Casual and yet somehow extraordinarily classy . |
| 7 | In part it is nervousness , but mostly is youthful exuberance , an exuberance that has so far made his career and yet paradoxically also threatens it . |
| 8 | Design becomes the means for ordering the socio-technical world in a manner compatible with both socio-cultural and technical-economic ends ; the means for forming , literally , future society in a manner at once desired and yet internally dialectically related to actuality requirements . |
| 9 | We often meet people who are in in their forties and fifties on er early retirement and little bit difficult to get over the message they do n't they do n't see it as retirement and yet surprisingly very few of the people who got redundancy at forty and forty five and fifty seem to be bothered about taking up other work at all that . |
| 10 | He was in a dream , aware of the sharp , early air and the smell of damp earth , seeing the vast pearly spread of the estuary far away below him beyond the fading gold necklaces of the street-lights , and yet altogether apart from his everyday world . |
| 11 | She is an entirely successful creation : an individual , and yet very much the result of her origins . |
| 12 | I think this is detracting , I think it 's inconsiderate , it certainly shows a lack of respect for one 's neighbours or indeed for the town one lives in and yet very often I 'm fully aware of the fact that the people who do the dropping are the first to complain that the Council does n't keep the town clean . |
| 13 | The other two became priests — and yet still more lost to Protestantism . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | To be so close to a girl and yet so rarely be able to caress her . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | His mouth encompassed hers once again as he drove into her , so shockingly abrupt and yet so incredibly sensual . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This is the chapter of the Secret Weapon — a weapon so powerful and yet so readily available . |
| 20 | Not easy for us , was what she 'd been warning me , being so near and yet so far , so tantalizingly inaccessible to each other . |
| 21 | What did he do after being so close and yet so far ? |
| 22 | It was n't just the defeat , how near and yet so far away . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | So near and yet so far . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | SO NEAR AND YET SO FAR ! |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | So near and yet so far . |
| 30 | But the timber remained jammed and the tiles continued to languish , tantalisingly so near and yet so far away . |