Example sentences of "and yet [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They get practically no help at all and yet mum still manages to sort of save a bit |
| 2 | Pricing may well be a critical factor in returns to farmers and to decision-making about extension of cultivation , and precise agronomic practices with direct implications for soil erosion , and yet prices of foodstuffs for urban-based elites are naturally a highly sensitive political issue . |
| 3 | And yet Preston did like him , instinctively , and without his usual reserve . |
| 4 | And yet Arthur was a the other way on . |
| 5 | And yet Ivy had had a far more prosperous early life . |
| 6 | In Europe , accidents are now the third most important cause of death , and yet fatalities represent only the tip of the iceberg . |
| 7 | Age , for example , is a continuous exposure variable and yet column charts with age as a categorical variable are common . |
| 8 | Not dreadfully exciting stuff , and yet Charity could reluctantly understand why her cousin found the man intriguing and was having trouble looking away . |
| 9 | ‘ And yet Peter , the sacristan , used to see you sittin' in St Catherine 's every day . |
| 10 | She was fervently wishing that he would go away , and yet part of her wanted him to stay . |
| 11 | And yet Penzias makes a good case for the new golden age , and his urbane discourse is both enlivening and instructive . |
| 12 | And yet decade after decade thousands of students were drawn into radical activity . |
| 13 | And yet Laura 's simple , but devastatingly effective attitude towards sexual attractiveness contained an essential contradiction . |
| 14 | The south coast of England was revived by estate agents from a fading , genteel holiday coastline into a supposed retirement paradise , and yet winter by the sea ( whatever the summer attractions ) can be savage . |
| 15 | It 's a problem common to lesbian and gay organizations that there is often a handful of stalwarts without whom things seemingly would not survive , and yet reliance on such martyrdom leads to over-involvement , resentment and burnout for the martyrs and under-involvement , resentment and alienation for others . |
| 16 | And yet Mrs Browning looked at her with hatred , her pale face growing steadily darker , and said , ‘ Leave me . ’ |
| 17 | It was now obvious that the horse was a stayer and yet Harry Short 's stable jockey had recently ridden him as if his best distance was six furlongs , holding him up for a late run . |
| 18 | Thinking about women is a way of avoiding the thought of death — and yet women may be the end of you . |
| 19 | They want the group presented as an equal four-piece , and yet Gedge writes most of the songs , sings them , and is by far the most charismatic member . |
| 20 | And yet Cassius now has to obey him and go out of his way to please him , as he is almost a god . |
| 21 | Mrs Maugham was a great shopper in large department stores , and she could not resist their sillier notions ; if anyone had accused her of extravagance , she would have roundly rebuffed the accusation as fantastic and perverse , and yet she must have spent many useless pounds in her pursuit of useful acquisitions Similarly , she always maintained that she hated clutter-clutter , implying , in her tone , the dense decorative drawing-room knick-knacks of Victorian England and yet clutter reigned in all her rooms . |
| 22 | And yet Eve had never had anything new , she knew that whatever dress she got for today would be a reject . |
| 23 | Erm well slightly different in the fact that er we er have two close schemes with far more er beneficiaries than there are er subscribing members , and at the moment that are four nominated by the er employer and four by the unions er we wish to say a pensioner erm that the rights were a pensioner nominee to that board of trustees , because we feel that er the situation is er is going to increase , we 've got so many beneficiaries and that the pensioners have no representative er I know that erm people on the boards of trustees are completely impartial , but on the other hand there is no pensioner there , the members are unsure of the fund , because of what 's been said , not that I 'm implying it 's not a secure fund , it is a secure fund , but they think why are they keeping the pensioners off , they there is some sort of hidden agenda they will not have us on there because neither of the businesses although we have tried for several years er they will not entertain at the moment erm a pensioner trustee , and yet Professor Good in his report acknowledges the merit of pensioner nominated trustees , er particularly in the sort of schemes where we 've got , wh where th the majority of beneficiaries . |
| 24 | And yet Alex had contributed . |
| 25 | Thus the Romans were not allowed to sell their ancestral real property , and yet houses and land regularly changed hands through a system of legal fictions and collusive actions . |
| 26 | And yet Victoria has accused me of exactly the same sin as I am so lightly attributing elsewhere ( incidentally , to people who are more fiction than fact ) . |
| 27 | And yet letters are very enigmatic , she thought . |
| 28 | Every year there was a big noisy carnival with its ghost trains and chairoplanes , and yet matrons with shallow baskets did sociable shopping excursions usually ending with coffee in Marine Road and tut-tutting over the state of the borough . |
| 29 | They claim that this age is far worse than previous ages , and they go on as though they had learned nothing at all from history — and yet history is the great teacher of life ( magistra vitae ) . |
| 30 | For reasons we shall look at in Chapter 9 , it proved almost impossible to limit monetary growth to these target ranges and yet inflation still fell . |