Example sentences of "yet [pron] is [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This somewhat idiosyncratic interpretation is no doubt coloured by the specificities of French history , yet there is little doubt that the British police system is also a political construction of the nineteenth century , created to contain the potential in the newly urbanized working classes for mob disorder , which the excesses of the military had seemed likely to exacerbate rather than disperse . |
| 2 | Yet there is little doubt that in most countries a good deal more could be done to get people talking and thinking about proposed changes . |
| 3 | The Morling judgment centred on a sentence within the advertisement that stated : ‘ And yet there is little evidence and nothing which proves scientifically that cigarette smoke causes disease in non-smokers . ’ |
| 4 | Large numbers of microcomputers are currently being introduced into primary schools , and as yet there is little knowledge of how these machines are being used in the classroom , or how the teachers themselves view the use of this technology in primary education . |
| 5 | Individual firms have taken on more security staff , but as yet there is little co-operation among companies on improving security outside their buildings , which is where bombs are most likely to be . |
| 6 | As yet there is little agreement on haemostatic and platelet factors in such patients but it may offer a further method of risk stratification in the future . |
| 7 | This increase has generally followed the increased use of fertilisers by something like two decades , so that as yet there is little pesticide in most groundwater . |
| 8 | The efficiency drive in the NHS in the 1980s , for example , left the clinical heartland of medicine relatively untouched , yet there is tremendous potential for redeploying resources from less effective to more effective therapies . |
| 9 | But later his father had said , ‘ But though the site of Cape Wrath is one of the greatest sites , yet there is one other which is revered among golden eagles above them all . |
| 10 | Yet there is one passage in chapters 1–3 which might seem to dispel all fear , and might lead us to expect Israel to win a resounding victory . |
| 11 | Yet there is one sense in which Swallow has thoroughly assimilated the professionalism of the academy . |
| 12 | Yet there is insufficient advertising to support fifteen daily newspapers : more papers are chasing less advertising , in competition with both radio and television . |
| 13 | Yet there is greater emphasis in the transnational company model on the complete integration and interdependence of operating structures . |
| 14 | Yet there is striking evidence that carts and wagons had been much improved , and that bridges were being built in many parts to make it possible for them to go longer distances . |
| 15 | Yet there is that worm in the apple , the niggling fear that something that good , ca n't be all that good . |
| 16 | Yet there is ample scope in the budget for government departments to place orders on the basis of an overall strategy aimed at raising industrial efficiency over a set time-scale . |
| 17 | Yet there is great difficulty in defining what we mean by the public benefit . |
| 18 | Yet there is another failure which we less readily admit to . |
| 19 | Yet there is abundant evidence that offices were bought and sold , although the discretion with which this had to be done makes it difficult to measure the flow of business . |
| 20 | Yet there is remarkable depth , too , with strong pulling power at lower speeds up hills . |
| 21 | Yet there is significant concern for the quality and reliability of the output of this examination system . |
| 22 | Yet there is some difficulty in knowing whether Mill really meant to say anything very different from Bentham . |
| 23 | Yet there is some comfort in a solitary , precocious horse chestnut 's struggles to show that special mosaic of leafage designed to catch the light . |
| 24 | Yet there is sufficient relationship between the two to consider the similarities . |
| 25 | Yet there is considerable tension between such models and the fact of public revenue . |
| 26 | Yet it is one thing to be abandoned by the God of our forefathers and another is to be abandoned by God the inventor of a cosmic computer . |
| 27 | It is easy to produce accurate pulses at very high speed yet it is 1 second pulses which are needed . |
| 28 | Yet it is this policy making , often particularly that which occurs at the highest level , that receives very much more attention . |
| 29 | Again it says licences will be allocated by competitive tender , as for Channel 3 , but as yet it is unlikely Channel 5 will be broadcast nationwide . |