Example sentences of "yet it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now India was an extremely poor country in nineteen fifty and still is , yet it had six times as many tractors per agricultural acre as China . |
| 2 | The slide-car was as old as history yet it had one advantage : the farmer could carry loads on gradients where it would be dangerous to take a wheeled cart . |
| 3 | The outbreak of war with Spain soon removed even the façade of trade as its main purpose , yet it had royal support and between two and three thousand shareholders . |
| 4 | Yet it took ten years for the pope to arrive at the point he had desired in 1199 , where he could treat the parties as equals , the one and the other , alterum et alterum as he says , and make his decision in Rome . |
| 5 | Yet it devoted more space to a rival attraction at the London School of Economics that same evening , Britain 's first teach-in ; the subject , the Vietnam War . |