Example sentences of "and yet so " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much had changed , so much was new , and yet so much was still my childhood Berkhamsted . |
| 2 | ‘ You are so foreign and yet so familiar . |
| 3 | There are few children who do not experience the death of a much-loved grandparent or pet when they are quite young , and yet so often they are excluded from all the changes that go on at the time of a grandparent 's death , as though in some way this will leave them unaffected . |
| 4 | One minute a mere tomboy Neighbour with a habit of putting a spanner in the works , the next Kylie was an overnight sensation , a pop princess with the Midas touch , so ordinary and yet so electrifying . |
| 5 | I believe there 's a new film called ‘ Tender Comrade ’ — that title begins to express it ; it 's the comrade in you that makes our passion so deep and yet so clear … |
| 6 | And yet so many people are pleased with the way they manage to hide their emotions — to maintain that ‘ stiff upper lip ’ of which men in particular seem to be so proud . |
| 7 | Maybe to lift guilt from bowed shoulders ; to put light and hope where there was deep-seated despair ; or to so simply and yet so vitally make them know that like any other human being , they are entitled to ‘ choice ’ — and actually have it . |
| 8 | I could not think what it was that could be for me and yet so heavy . |
| 9 | It is so simple and yet so effective . |
| 10 | Not easy for us , was what she 'd been warning me , being so near and yet so far , so tantalizingly inaccessible to each other . |
| 11 | It was so brutal , and yet so matter of fact . |
| 12 | Initial impressions of the B-1R were extremely favourable ; at only 1U high it 's slim and stylish , and yet so functional . |
| 13 | No one could find out why this apparently healthy young woman suffered symptoms which were so intense and yet so varied . |
| 14 | This is the chapter of the Secret Weapon — a weapon so powerful and yet so readily available . |
| 15 | As Professor Fred Halliday of the London School of Economics points out above , The Gulf Region is so crucial to us all and yet so very volatile . |
| 16 | What did he do after being so close and yet so far ? |
| 17 | It was n't just the defeat , how near and yet so far away . |
| 18 | Paradoxically , one of the biggest , says Thomas Davenport , a management consultant with Ernst & Young and one of the earliest advocates of re-engineering , is a company 's existing computer system , which can be so complex and yet so central to the firm 's business that it is too expensive and too risky to scrap entirely ( though not always — see box ) . |
| 19 | Dimples mischievously collide with each other at odd places around his face as he glances at me and wonders how on earth I could ask a question that is so dumb and yet so fundamental . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Such comments explain why there can be so much discussion of undergraduate courses within specific disciplines , and yet so little of the undergraduate curriculum as a whole . |
| 23 | Much of it is awful and yet so technically good . |
| 24 | Also there was something decidedly impressive about the sight of Bill Brice kneeling there — so young , so overweight , so ambitious , on such premature bad terms with his wife , and yet so humble and submissive , with the toecaps of his suede desert boots turned over , and a drawing-pin sticking disarmingly in the heel of one of them . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | To be so close to a girl and yet so rarely be able to caress her . |
| 27 | I fired again , calm and yet so full of fear , so full of fear I forget how often I fired . |
| 28 | So near and yet so far . |
| 29 | I realised this the first time I saw her dressed up to go out — excited , nervous and yet so alive . |
| 30 | 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 . |