Example sentences of "yet [pron] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leapor 's appeal to the imagery of retirement is somewhat conventional , yet she uses that ideal of landscape not as a pretext for improvement but as a defence of existing topography . |
| 2 | An improvement in technology leading to increased efficiency in food production would have helped , but as yet there seems little evidence for this , unless intensification of field systems to open common fields is a manifestation of this . |
| 3 | ‘ Over-involved ’ is a derogatory label still used by professionals to describe anxious , supportive relatives , yet it takes extraordinary judgment and sensitivity to manage a close relative 's abnormal beliefs and behaviour in a way which neither colludes with pathological beliefs nor alienates the sufferer . |
| 4 | These factors are worthy of emphasis because in practice they are still dealt with very badly in many organisations and yet it takes little trouble or expertise to make an enormous difference . |
| 5 | Significantly , the camera does not require costly special cooling yet it achieves thermal resolutions comparable with current , cooled images . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The relation seen as Figure 3.30 is in BCNF ( and therefore TNF ) and yet it contains considerable redundancy . |
| 9 | Fair and fragile though he be — they tell me his father looked so in his youth — yet he has great strength of will . |
| 10 | Yet he views that season as the highlight of his career . |
| 11 | Yet what makes this intelligibility possible ? |