Example sentences of "yet it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now India was an extremely poor country in nineteen fifty and still is , yet it had six times as many tractors per agricultural acre as China . |
| 2 | The slide-car was as old as history yet it had one advantage : the farmer could carry loads on gradients where it would be dangerous to take a wheeled cart . |
| 3 | The outbreak of war with Spain soon removed even the façade of trade as its main purpose , yet it had royal support and between two and three thousand shareholders . |
| 4 | He had done it so often , yet it got worse rather than easier : pain in the gut , sticky sourness in the back of the throat , thighs trembling with tension but the hands steady . |
| 5 | Yet it took ten years for the pope to arrive at the point he had desired in 1199 , where he could treat the parties as equals , the one and the other , alterum et alterum as he says , and make his decision in Rome . |
| 6 | So still , so derelict , yet it looked capable of sudden movement . |
| 7 | She had known him less than a week , yet it seemed natural to turn to him . |
| 8 | A comparative nothing' of a life , you might think ; and yet it did more to convince me that it was not my imagination at work than all the finery of a court lady could have done . |
| 9 | With all my might I stamped at its head , but missed it by a couple of inches ; again I stamped with the same extraordinary result ; but with the third stamp I caught the poor little creature and crushed it to pulp , and yet it gave one more thrust with its tiny legs and then lay still . |
| 10 | Yet it devoted more space to a rival attraction at the London School of Economics that same evening , Britain 's first teach-in ; the subject , the Vietnam War . |
| 11 | Gnomic , succinct , its puns and allusions introduced all the themes she must develop , yet it remained abstract enough for her mind to keep firm purchase on her errant feelings . |
| 12 | It was n't performance-intensive enough for Silicon Grahpics Inc , but included stuff like multi-processor support that was completely unimportant in a mainstream Intel competitor , but yet it remained hard to design and debug . |
| 13 | Yet it remained weekly until after independence and was unable to compete on equal terms with the pro-Welensky , pro-Federation daily Northern News . |