Example sentences of "yet at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet at a poor family 's most crucial and most public celebrations , at a marriage or at the birth of a male child , the absence of a hijra would almost invalidate the whole ceremony . |
| 2 | The desire of the Cubists to keep closely in touch with visual reality explains Picasso 's uneasiness about his Cadaquès paintings : clearly he could not go back to his earlier , more laborious methods of dealing with form , and yet at a single stroke he had carried the new technique suggested in the work of Braque to something very near complete abstraction . |
| 3 | She had planned on being ultra-cool , whatever provocation he might throw at her , and yet at the first word here she was letting him get to her all over again ! |
| 4 | Watching the Trooper disappear up the road , I reckon it could go on trooping for a long time yet at the right price , with very little needing doing . |
| 5 | Yet at the broadest level the battle-lines could be said to have fallen into this basic pattern . |
| 6 | In the realm of healing much happens to authenticate Christ 's present will and power to heal the otherwise incurable , and yet , often distressingly , enough fails to happen to serve to remind us that we are not yet at the last day , and to leave the mystery of the ‘ not yet ’ all around us ’ ( Smail 1975:124 ) . |
| 7 | Yet at the last count there were six oil-rich states bordering the Gulf . |
| 8 | His Postscript evokes the aim of a white-coated Doctor Kundera ‘ to solve an aesthetic problem : how to write a novel which would be a ‘ critique of poetry ’ and yet at the same time would itself be poetry ’ . |
| 9 | Yet at the same time there is work done upon it , he wrote , and which remains , as it does not in the mind . |
| 10 | Yet at the same time mere graffito in pissoir , he wrote . |
| 11 | Langford and Williams ' work with renowned listed pubs since 1987 puts the company in a favourable light with conservation societies such as The Victorian Society , SPAB , and the Georgian Group ; we have even been known to win a few CAMRA awards yet at the same time the firm has also brazenly converted redundant pubs to café-bar concepts . |
| 12 | Europe appeared to accept her difference and individuality , whereas England demanded that she should somehow conform , assimilate , and yet at the same time , there was no way in which it was possible to really ‘ assimilate ’ . |
| 13 | Yet at the same time as he was representing members of the Cali cartel , Mr Abbell was on Capitol Hill lobbying for changes in the international treaty on extradition which would favour the defendants in such cases . |
| 14 | As the son of a school-inspector and a typical representative of the pre-Soviet intelligentsia , Lenin was torn between the conflicting needs of creating a politically and culturally conscious nation as fast as possible , yet at the same time ensuring that vulgarized , superficial agitation did not become a substitute for thoroughgoing education on a broad base . |
| 15 | The work of art was especially fitted to reveal this , since its audience may both criticize , yet at the same time be involved in , its enactment . |
| 16 | I suppose when they string together every possible Celtic cliché , you can only sit back and submit knowing that the stereotype is so overplayed as to be utterly ridiculous , yet at the same time resenting the perpetration of it . |
| 17 | Because I could n't countenance how you could stay under water without being asphyxiated , and yet at the same time I was incapable of comprehending the trick . |
| 18 | This is the densest , yet at the same time one of the most persuasive sections of the book , wherein a variety of arguments drawn from the analytic tradition are deployed against Nietzsche 's lineage : Quine and Davidson on a theory of meaning both holistic and realist — demonstrating that there are more ways out of atomism and the myths of the given than Saussure 's ; and an anti-relativist notion of truth as a ‘ regulative ideal ’ derived from Tarski , Popper and Lakatos . |
| 19 | It makes the tragedy even more complete , yet at the same time contains the seeds of hope . |
| 20 | Yet at the same time the broad mainstream is flowing by . |
| 21 | ‘ As a breed , ‘ Charlies ’ are very gentle , and yet at the same time strong willed . |
| 22 | But maybe it now seems a little clearer why people can truly believe in the resurrection hope for the person who has died , yet at the same time may still allow themselves to feel sad . |
| 23 | There had already been a kerfuffle over the pornographic ones ; they could n't be included in the facsimile edition and yet at the same time it could hardly be called a complete edition if they were n't there . |
| 24 | Mr. Jonathan Thomas Carr felt offended by what he considered was the ugly and tasteless housing being erected in the London suburbs , so he produced a scheme to create a garden suburb of Houses without basements , and of character within reach of people with moderate means , yet at the same time , retaining existing trees wherever possible . |
| 25 | For many British people of my generation , the sight of great ships sailing for a remote theatre of action , their rails lined with cheering soldiers , at once evoked echoes of convoys leaving for Africa or the Far East , yet at the same time produced surprise at the media coverage and the openness with which these preparatory stages , and indeed the later fighting , appeared to be reported . |
| 26 | ‘ I never doubted that for a moment , ’ he replied in an extremely charming , yet at the same time insolent , tone . |
| 27 | He gained a reputation as a practical joker , yet at the same time could be quite morose . |
| 28 | As with all good day dreams you were confident that one day this world would materialize and yet at the same time it seemed as unattainable as another planet . |
| 29 | The leader must choose a suitable spread to get a borrower 's loan business and yet at the same time convince participating banks that it is a realistic return relative to the loan risk(s) involved . |
| 30 | It was a practice requiring the submission of the lower classes on the street , yet at the same time reflecting subordination of the constables to the whims of senior officers and to a manipulative body of law . |