Example sentences of "yet [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet the treatment of his characters is not exactly what that prefatory article of his might have led one to expect . |
| 2 | Jane is unlikely to earn much sympathy by virtue of the attention given to the environment which produced her dabbling in eventfulness and her poor kiss , and yet the two environments have more in common than would once have been thought possible . |
| 3 | Literature , with its store of memories , is suspected by the state : and yet the state is served by certain writers . |
| 4 | He says of the liberals that they were placed in a predicament by the fall : ‘ A democracy can not be imposed by force , the majority must favour it , yet the majority wanted what Khomeini wanted — an Islamic republic . ’ |
| 5 | Yet the articles which followed qualified certain of these rights in a typically catholic way and in the terms of the papal teaching of the day . |
| 6 | And yet the glass itself is about the emptiness of time , he wrote . |
| 7 | And yet the drama lies in this , wrote Harsnet , that perhaps the Bride really wishes to remain only a bride , at the moment of her bridity , and the bachelors only bachelors , at the moment of their bachelorhood , dangling together like pegs on a line , boys together at eternal stag party , as the bride a virgin forever in her dream of giving herself up to something else , crossing the threshold to another existence . |
| 8 | Yet the more you build the greater the sense of exile . |
| 9 | Yet the old seriousness still there , and the old laughter . |
| 10 | The balloon says it all : lager has less than 50 per cent of the British beer market yet the brewers spend two-thirds of their advertising money on it . |
| 11 | The great pity of this is that most pubs are old , yet the proper opportunity to celebrate this has already been squandered . |
| 12 | This could be seen as a sign of healthy growth and change ; yet the new fittings and equipment installed are usually totally insensitive to the design quality of the original . |
| 13 | And yet the changes have taken place without disturbing in the slightest the unique atmosphere that makes the event so special , a credit to the care , attention and financial assistance that Direct Line have devoted to making Beckenham one of the most pleasant stops on the tennis calendar . |
| 14 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 15 | Yet the title of ‘ the world 's most luxurious train' was snatched away in 1985 by a still more exclusive charter operation introduced to British metals by a company which owned none of its own locomotives or coaching stock . |
| 16 | Yet the former has sufficient Spanish flavour , as does the Minkus score fur Don Quixote , for audiences to believe that characters really would perform in the way they do to the kind of music provided . |
| 17 | Yet the Tutor 's capitulation to Natalia reveals her power over every man she meets as well as his failure to withstand her wiles . |
| 18 | Yet the discipline of MacMillan 's design in all its variety , dimension and structure requires each dancer to understand and conform to technical discipline . |
| 19 | Yet the choreography is by a Russian who studied among the Spanish peasants and worked out his design with the help of a particular peasant , a natural dancer , whose passion for dance was such that his life ended tragically when he found he was not to perform in the ballet . |
| 20 | Yet the above ballets are different again from de Valois ' The Rake 's Progress , which was based on the reality of Hogarth 's pictures . |
| 21 | Yet the BMC will feel uncomfortable whichever option they follow . |
| 22 | Yet the highest of them all , Elbrus , has a route that would be accessible to many a mountaineer with only one of two alpine seasons behind him ; a route that demands no real technical expertise , but an ability to adapt to altitude , and a fair degree of stamina . |
| 23 | He wrote month after month with fearful haste , and yet the Soviet editor only exaggerates slightly when he says that the manuscripts reveal ‘ immense , most rigorous work , literally over every phrase ’ . |
| 24 | And yet the effective place of this life-soiled object is in the body of the book , nourishing the reality of the whole Marmeladov set-up , like the children 's washed day-clothes drying overnight . |
| 25 | Stepan 's own pronouncement , again on his deathbed , strikes more devastatingly deep than Mrs Stavrogin 's , and yet the reader inclines his head as to an act of natural justice . |
| 26 | Yet the people in those countries show little sign of believing in Marxism in the way that some Western intellectuals do . |
| 27 | Yet the philosopher John Searle has recorded that Foucault once described Derrida 's prose style to him as ‘ obscurantisme terroriste ’ . |
| 28 | Yet the clarity and rigour may in themselves be problematical . |
| 29 | Yet the circumstance of the two writers being noncommunicating neighbours in Rapallo is too piquant not to be instructive . |
| 30 | Yet the companions of the Muses |