Example sentences of "[vb past] yet [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He loved yet feared this place . |
2 | Opposing traits in his make-up were already evident during his last year at school , when he was voted both class optimist and class pessimist , though , at that time , he had yet to appreciate certain complexities of character on which he would draw for his screen creations . |
3 | The enactment of both provisions remained far from certain , however , as they were attached to a campaign finance bill which had yet to receive congressional assent and which faced a threatened veto from President Bush . |
4 | ‘ Three quarters of a century later , London had yet to achieve that abundance . ’ |
5 | The delegation representing the Serbian-dominated Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( FRY ) ( which had yet to achieve international recognition ) was headed by Prime Minister Milan Panic and President Dobrica Cosic . |
6 | On the other hand , the rank and file of his army of conquest of 1016 , comprising Norwegians and Swedes as well as Danes , doubtless contained a fair number of heathens , and it is very unlikely that the Danish church had yet permeated national life as deeply as that of the English . |