Example sentences of "yet [pron] [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet nothing is done . |
| 2 | I 'm the injured party , yet she is suffering more than I am . |
| 3 | She is beyond time , and yet she is giving birth to time itself At the moment of birth , her baby is the very youngest member of the human race , its star of hope and its future . |
| 4 | Well I do n't know , but she , I said , cos she 's telling me about her coming , only three days up the hospital then she 's got ta go back to her own place because Ian said she 'd never managed , she keeps falling and she said this woman never went to see her once when she was in hospital , yet she 's getting paid it look all the time , and she ought to go to see if there 's anything she wants you see |
| 5 | Well I do n't yet she 's gon na come round and see me to tell me what sort of job . |
| 6 | and yet she 's saying I 'm gon na make this a feature , I 'm having erm an archway over my Aga and erm , I mean she 's got a new carpet you know |
| 7 | — yet one is urged to look to common parent ? why should two of the most closely allied species occur in the same country ? ’ |
| 8 | Why does it record on that way and yet it 's running that way ? |
| 9 | Dragon racing uses skills learned from a two thousand year old legend … yet it 's claimed to be the fastest growing sport in Britain . |
| 10 | Yet it 's estimated that about one in five of us is affected . |
| 11 | Yet it 's estimated that in about 90% of house burglaries , the thief entered with very little effort . |
| 12 | Yet it is condemned by some as inflexible to the point where it can not be a curriculum for all children . |
| 13 | Besides the fact that Mittwoch scuttles her own argument by citing examples such as No newspaper would dare publish his denial where " dare shows modal characteristics precisely in governing the bare infinitive … , yet it is governed by another modal " ( p. 128 ) , and the fact that treating to as a modal auxiliary is in itself highly implausible , this analysis simply begs the question of whether there is a semantic motivation behind the absence of to here . |
| 14 | This is because the carbon monoxide content of cigarette smoke cuts down the amount of oxygen in the blood and accordingly the heart has to work harder yet it is getting less oxygen . |
| 15 | The style has tremendous rhetorical power in that the analysis reveals the obverse of the obvious and yet it is treated as still obvious . |
| 16 | Yet it is limited ; if applied to particles with very high energies it fails to provide meaningful answers . |
| 17 | Four times as many people die from prostate cancer as from cervical cancer , yet it is under-recognised , under-researched and there is no screening programme . |
| 18 | The language is ugly and violent , yet it is fitting ; she handles her characters with sympathy and a rare insight . |
| 19 | Yet it is damaging to suggest that they can be answered separately from questions about the educational needs of children and young people themselves . |
| 20 | Beer is classified as a food stuff and yet it is excluded from the legal requirements to list ingredients . |
| 21 | Yet it is suggested that the availability of this total figure ‘ may be constrained by such factors as production capacity , economic factors and environmental considerations ’ ( PIP , 4.1 ) . |
| 22 | Yet it is suggested that the availability of this total figure ‘ may be constrained by such factors as production capacity , economic factors and environmental considerations ’ ( PIP , 4.1 ) . |
| 23 | And even before the War , though Hewlett in correspondence with Harold Monro and Newbolt could give and take hard knocks by way of semi-technical criticism , yet it is enveloped and emasculated by similarly anxious camaraderie . |
| 24 | Yet it is known that between one third and one half of mentally handicapped people currently resident in mental handicap hospitals should not be in hospital and could be either immediately discharged or discharged after a short period of training . |
| 25 | It is to enable those who do not know and can not know enough for policy-making to make policy , yet it is to have no policies of its own . ’ |
| 26 | It is indeed an element of all three offences that the conduct must be such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness , present at the scene , to fear for his personal safety ; and yet it is provided , for each offence , that ‘ no person of reasonable firmness need actually be , or be likely to be , present at the scene ’ . |
| 27 | The Gwili is a small society running a two-mile line on a shoe-string and yet it is having some success in extending both the length of the line and its infrastructure . |
| 28 | Latin America 's nutritional levels are higher than in many other parts of the Third world , and yet it is estimated that 15 per cent of the region 's children suffer from medium to high-level malnutrition , which means , given the differences within the region , high levels in some areas ( López Cordovez 1982 ) . |
| 29 | And yet it is estimated that two-thirds of companies fail to employ their quota of registered disabled and only two government departments employ 3 per cent disabled . |
| 30 | Its near presence is rather overpowering and intimidating yet it is softened by the verdant greenery around its base . |