Example sentences of "and yet the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet the Chancellor had the cheek to describe this as a measure to improve energy efficiency . ’ |
| 2 | John Stanley 's extemporizations on the organ of Temple Church in London were attended by Handel , and yet the esteem in which he was held by his contemporaries has failed to gain him the reputation that he should enjoy today . |
| 3 | Hari felt guilt sear her , she should be more considerate of her mother and yet the work must be done or there would be no money . |
| 4 | The post-war rise in divorce has attracted much debate amongst policy makers , welfare practitioners and the public at large , and yet the work of the probation service in providing welfare reports and related services to the courts in such situations has remained largely unresearched in the face of the preoccupation with their work with offenders . |
| 5 | However , 80 per cent of the revenue generated is spent on civil service salaries , and yet the government by imprecation if not implication blames this peasantry for sheet and gully erosion . |
| 6 | Now that 's something that erm particularly that last point , that audit committees that are established in most efficient companies want to look at and I come back to the point that audit ought to be looked at as something that assists companies in efficiency as well as a mechanism for detecting fraud and yet the government does n't appear to be examining that . |
| 7 | And yet the recession , whose task is to drive inflation down , is anything but an illusion . |
| 8 | And yet the story which the people of Dodona will tell about the black dove from Egypt becoming their oracle would surely arise because the foreign woman 's language would sound to them like the twittering of birds . |
| 9 | And yet the proportion of women going out to work has doubled over the last thirty-five years ( from 30% to 60% between 1951 and 1987 ) , and almost all this increase is in part-time work . |
| 10 | The system is a cooperative one and yet the operating units remain independent . |
| 11 | Obviously eventually if people keep on leaking blood their pressure will fall but you could have a situation where there 's not a single drop of blood yet lost to the system and yet the person 's in shock because the blood 's not being circulated properly off the heart , not a drop of blood lost to the system , but insufficient pressure , so shock can be caused by either of those two things , failure of the circulatory system because the pressure of the volume drops dangerously low , okay , you did a lot of work on what the person looks like , yes you as the casu you as the first aider will see this person in front of you , what will they be like ? |
| 12 | In some ways , however , it seems quite difficult to extend his approach to more ‘ normal ’ politics and yet the persistence , and even growth , of nationalism and ethnicity as a basis for politics and social upheaval need some kind of explanation . |
| 13 | Yet how can we get a picture of the way in which it is possible to accept both that a task is done by rules ( for it is certainly not done randomly ) and yet the performer has no access whatever to the rules ? |
| 14 | And yet the driver is n't aware of these acrobatics from behind the wheel . |
| 15 | And yet the oracle had lodged in Cadfael 's mind like a thorn from the blackthorn bushes , and would not be dislodged . |
| 16 | Officials admit that the replanting of the hillsides is crucial for the success of the programme and yet the replanting only started in 1981 and seems a case of too little and too late . |
| 17 | However , only one explicit signal is provided in the form of " finally " ( sentence ( h ) ) and yet the sentence which it governs does not constitute the last of the story . |
| 18 | As library users have found to their cost , the shelf that held the books marked 636.7 last week might hold books quite differently numbered today , as the stock grows and books move along , and yet the position of a subject 's bookstock can rapidly be found once the all.important subject number is identified from the index . |
| 19 | And yet the evidence of radical initiatives on behalf of women , which seriously challenge patriarchal knowledge and control actually being seen to flourish and beginning to transform oppressive structures are extremely rare . |
| 20 | And yet the longing to break out , to do the sudden impetuous thing , to drop everything and go running off to New York was suddenly irresistible . |
| 21 | Mildred Gordon MP , formerly a teacher , said in her speech that ‘ far too often young children are presented , in schoolbooks and in pictures in school with the vision of the normal , acceptable , happy family as comprising a married , white middle-class man and woman , with two prissy children who are clean , neat and tidy , and yet the majority of children find that this does not relate to their households . ’ |
| 22 | take you back in this first talk about the art of film erm to the very early days , and these are difficult I think for us to imagine because we 're so used today to sound films , of all the effects in , in the theatres , we 're used to the great stars , we 're used to the big subjects , and yet the film began in the smallest possible way , it began really as a sideshow , it began as a hobby for a group of people , sometimes they would be French , sometimes they would be British , sometimes American , the early pioneers , whose main interest was to produce a camera , which would look like a still camera and yet somehow would manage to produce a picture which moved when it was projected on a screen . |
| 23 | We did n't play a and yet the defence played well enough . |
| 24 | The hospitality industry would appear to be little different , plenty of women involved in the industry , enjoying a majority over men in hotel and catering degree courses and yet the percentage of managers remains heavily stacked towards , generally speaking , the heavily built sex . |
| 25 | Ruggiero Miletti had been killed the day before , on Monday morning , and yet the gang had waited until this morning to alert the family with a cruel message of hope ! |
| 26 | This whole conception is undeniably optimistic ; and yet the myth underlying it is gruesome . |
| 27 | He looked at Jimmy Boyce , or rather he looked at his tie — all red and blue , almost patriotic , and yet the tie still hung at that curious angle . |
| 28 | The foresters , both riding and walking , and their pages take for a cart two , three or four shillings , from some more and from others less according to their means , and for a pack-horse twelve , sixteen or eighteen pence , to raise their fine which they have made with the warden for their appointment ; this to the great destruction of the King 's forest and the grievance of those who have woods in the forest , for they suffer the carriers to go quit all through the year without attachment , and yet the King has no profit … |
| 29 | And yet the treatment of his characters is not exactly what that prefatory article of his might have led one to expect . |
| 30 | And yet the wall extended further , even though it remained within the chamber . |