Example sentences of "yet [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet I knew big Sunday dinners and family get-togethers were behind the closed doors . |
| 2 | Yet I like comfortable dresses , too : why not ? |
| 3 | Yet I craved physical affection — the raw stuff of touch — Perhaps even more than emotional . |
| 4 | Some of them and yet you get huge damage . |
| 5 | ‘ The poll tax is almost finished and yet you have Labour councillors still hounding working class people . |
| 6 | Yet we remain human beings with quivering flesh and throbbing nerves who need the small delights of emotional well-being . |
| 7 | Yet we suffer ever-growing road congestion , the amelioration of which most thinking people now agree can not be achieved merely by building more roads . |
| 8 | For example , there is no conclusive evidence from anywhere that DDT has ever killed anybody , yet we have ample evidence that it has saved millions of lives . |
| 9 | In fact , most industrial countries passed this figure over twenty-five years ago , with tax ratios of over 40% for some countries in the 1970s , yet they experienced low inflation and rapid growth of real incomes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And yet they remained close friends . |
| 12 | Yet they drew huge crowds and all their meetings seemed a success . |
| 13 | Yet they supplied real needs : . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Significantly , the camera does not require costly special cooling yet it achieves thermal resolutions comparable with current , cooled images . |
| 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 relation seen as Figure 3.30 is in BCNF ( and therefore TNF ) and yet it contains considerable redundancy . |
| 19 | Fair and fragile though he be — they tell me his father looked so in his youth — yet he has great strength of will . |