Example sentences of "yet [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet I did not want to leave things alone entirely , without making an effort , but it is restricted to the expression of two things — the cypresses — the olive trees — let others who are better and more powerful than I reveal their symbolic language … |
| 2 | Yet I did not see a foul . |
| 3 | Yet I did not know which to trust : the splintered yet separately concrete vision of myself each man offered me which was the product of his necessary fantasy ; or the amorphous , difficult to establish whole self which struggled to say that his vision of me and mine through his , had distorted it . |
| 4 | And how strange , she thought , that I have come from him , and you are but now going to him , and yet I do not envy even you , the most enviable of women ! |
| 5 | Yet I do not read the speeches in the Hoffmann-La Roche case as conferring a privilege on the Crown in law enforcement proceedings . |
| 6 | ‘ You speak of my mother … yet I do not know you … ’ |
| 7 | Yet I do not doubt that Aristotle and St Paul have done more to frame the Prime Minister 's mind and therefore the destiny of her Government than any thinkers who have been dead for less than 1,900 years . |
| 8 | And since you push the issue , Wilson , my husband is a man too — no Robert , let me finish — he is a man too and subject to like temptation and to the charge of masculine appetites and yet I do not doubt his fidelity , wherever he goes . |
| 9 | ‘ Yet you did not want a child in this marriage ? ’ |
| 10 | Yet you do not have to spend very long with them to appreciate how India , then as now , has turned them into what they are , how it has brutalized them and forced them to anaesthetize their own sensibilities . |
| 11 | She was so glad that Len was back by her side , and yet she dared not tell him why , because he would only be angry and perhaps start a fight and worry afterwards anyway . |
| 12 | A Cardiff woman , aged 35 in 1939 , suffered from decayed teeth , bronchitis every winter and a prolapsed uterus dating from her second pregnancy , yet she did not consider herself ill . |
| 13 | Yet we do not apply the same common-sense principles to our own bodies . |
| 14 | Yet we do not understand what is going on . |
| 15 | It is not surprising , therefore , to find that learning has been one of the most extensively studied of human abilities , yet we do not have one complete explanatory theory that can guide teachers . |
| 16 | Yet we do not have to look far into Bloomsbury as an active group to find some of the more fundamental features of an authentic cultural formation . |
| 17 | Yet we do not have unreasonably to assimilate cultural practice to this area of the satisfaction of basic human needs to realize that , whatever purposes cultural practice may serve , its means of production are unarguably material . |
| 18 | As yet we do not have details on exact numbers , but when I do get more information , I will be back in touch . |
| 19 | Muon catalysed fusion may be only one miracle short of practical realisation , but as yet we do not know where that miracle will come from , nor even whether it exists . |
| 20 | This is better for the male , too , and he may actually inform the female in some way that she is a secondary female , but as yet we do not know how . |
| 21 | As to the three first designs it must be recollected that while the first prize for the Foreign Office was awarded to Messrs. Coe and Hofland , yet they did not compete for the War Office again , while in the opinion of Mr. Burn and that of the assessors , Messrs. Banks and Barry stood first in merit for the Foreign Office ; yet , according to the same opinion , they were unsuccessful for the War Office , while Mr. Scott stood second both for one and the other . |
| 22 | The Allied politicians lacked understanding , and yet they did not hesitate to place a barrier to Germany 's growth , and having placed that barrier , did not think to support it effectively in the years to come . |
| 23 | Yet they do not appear to have been cowed by systems or professionals . |
| 24 | Yet they do not preach these principles , rather are they implicit in the writing , . |
| 25 | How often have you seen windows opened because people find it too warm , yet they do not turn off radiators ? |
| 26 | Tasks are divided up between departments , units , individuals , divisions and yet they do not have the same power . |
| 27 | The Governor , John Thomas-Ferrand explains how the prison was designed at a time when women did not work in all-male prisons , now 20% are women , yet they do not have their own shower facilities , for example . |
| 28 | The Governor , John Thomas-Ferrand explains how the prison was designed at a time when women did not work in all-male prisons , now 20% are women , yet they do not have their own shower facilities , for example . |
| 29 | Persistent surface weedkillers remain active in the top few centimetres of the soil , killing new weeds as they germinate , yet they do not harm most established roses , shrubs and trees , whose roots are well below the surface . |
| 30 | But there are some phonetic sequences which seem to have semantic value of a sort , yet they do not correspond to grammatical elements : there seems to be a direct pathway from sound to meaning , bypassing grammar . |