Example sentences of "yet [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet I like comfortable dresses , too : why not ? |
| 2 | Yet I suspect most tensions are endemic and inescapable . |
| 3 | It is surprising to find some women who are heavily infected with candida and yet who deny any symptoms save an increase in vaginal discharge . |
| 4 | and yet you see these days they would give her treatment for that |
| 5 | ‘ The poll tax is almost finished and yet you have Labour councillors still hounding working class people . |
| 6 | This is an unreal place to be , because if you ca n't talk to other women , yet you believe all women must in the end come to separatism , then either those women have to be born separatist or they have to come to it through isolation , pain and struggle . |
| 7 | But all the messages that the parliaments of women busily exchanged among themselves stuck at one figure whom their spate of stories , their laughter and malice , could n't break down or wash away , a special kind of other woman , a figure so pitiful and so ludicrous that even jokes could n't make her situation spicy , and yet she outnumbered all others , because so many men had gone away alone , to America , both North and South . |
| 8 | Yet we remain human beings with quivering flesh and throbbing nerves who need the small delights of emotional well-being . |
| 9 | Yet they included gifted men , not only the Florentine pioneers of opera who for a time were still active as monodists — Peri 's Le varie musiche ( Florence , 1609 ) , Caccini 's posthumously published Nuove Musiche e nuova maniera di scriverle ( Florence , 1614 ) , Gagliano 's Musiche ( Venice , 1615 ) but younger composers : Sigismondo d'India ( c. 1580–1629 ) , Claudio Saracini ( 1586–after 1649 ) , and Domenico Belli ( fl. c. 1616 ) in the Florentine-Mantuan orbit . |
| 10 | And yet they remained close friends . |
| 11 | Yet they drew huge crowds and all their meetings seemed a success . |
| 12 | Yet they supplied real needs : . |
| 13 | Operators in other countries may maintain that they have ‘ commercial ’ digital services , but as yet they have few customers and they are finding it hard to rival the falling prices of analogue cellular networks . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Significantly , the camera does not require costly special cooling yet it achieves thermal resolutions comparable with current , cooled images . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Yet it costs individual households nothing more to put out an extra binfull , although the community as a whole will have to pay more ; conversely , they save nothing if they recycle or compost or simply buy more carefully . |
| 18 | The 10 per cent guar loaf has 25 per cent less digestible carbohydrate , and hence 25 per cent fewer calories , than white bread , yet it has three times more fibre . |
| 19 | Yet he collected two phials of prussic acid from Bishopsgate and proceeded to Sara 's cottage at Salt Hill , arriving slightly after 4pm on 1 January . |
| 20 | ‘ On Sunday , when the squad assembled , I was told by our medical staff that Ally McCoist was as good as out because of his thigh injury and yet he scored two goals . |
| 21 | It was a formula , one which Alexei had heard his father use many times before , and yet he saw both women smile . |
| 22 | And yet he conquered these fears , so that in the fullness of time he became a spirited steeplechaser and a keen rider to hounds . |
| 23 | Even the ex-scumnik , Tundrish , spoke with reasonable fluency , though in his case concepts sometimes seemed to be lacking to accompany the words which burbled from his mouth , as if as yet he possessed more words than meanings . |