Example sentences of "yet in [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet in 1840 it was Joseph Sturge , having emerged as the leading figure of one faction of abolitionists , who guided Clarkson to and from the platform ; Haydon 's picture represented an exclusion from full recognition in the movement of some elements , especially women , on ideological grounds , and in 1843 some abolitionists refused to attend the Convention , implicitly denying Sturge 's BFASS the right to claim the antislavery heritage . |
| 2 | Yet in 1981 it spent only £38 million on repairs to railways . |
| 3 | Yet in 1939 he could not have envisaged the full irony of the destiny that history had reserved for him . |
| 4 | In one case the sheet folds in a way that is very similar to the formation of a neural tube ; in another it is very similar to the way the lens forms ; yet in another it is like the early formation of the gut in sea-urchin development . |
| 5 | Experimental surgery on his legs when he was 10 left him in a wheelchair , yet in 1988 he climbed Kala Patar in the Himalayas over 18,000 feet in the shade of Everest . |
| 6 | The TBC was intended to be self-financing , yet in 1960 it obtained only £5,002 from licences and £6,896 from advertising . |