Example sentences of "yet [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As yet nothing is concrete and , following Sir Geoffrey 's study , that initial concept may well change . |
| 2 | Yet nothing could alter the double personal difficulty — a difference of principles between a low churchman and a high churchman , and an indefinable difference of temperament . |
| 3 | Yet nothing can quite make up for the gaudy excesses of the auto-da-fe . |
| 4 | Yet nothing happens . |
| 5 | Scientific data is shovelled in by the barrow-load , emissions of ministerial concern belch forth from every conceivable government orifice , yet nothing happens . |
| 6 | To know God and yet nothing of our own wretched state breeds pride ; to realize our misery and know nothing of God is mere despair ; but if we come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ we find our true equilibrium , for there we find both human misery and God . |
| 7 | Yet nothing had changed since , and his worry now was not for the competition , but for what lay beyond , what would happen to Firelight when he left school in the summer and joined the ranks of the unemployed or , with doubtful luck , got on to his father 's building site . |
| 8 | Yet nothing was done until decades after the need was recognised . |
| 9 | The country was at war and yet nothing seemed to be happening ; everything looked so peaceful . |
| 10 | Yet nothing could be more surprising than that Sir Frederick Lugard should have been the father of Indirect Rule , a system of administration supposedly distinguished by the judicious delegation of authority . |
| 11 | All other efforts to lose the fat from the offending areas proved a disaster because if I lost weight below 8 st 7 lbs ( 54 kg ) my bust disappeared yet nothing went from my legs or posterior ! |
| 12 | At all events SLA research , though of considerable theoretical and descriptive interest , has yielded as yet nothing definitive upon which one might confidently model an approach to formal teaching which replicates the process of natural learning ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 13 | There is really no such thing , I think , as a perfect politician 's wife , because she has to be so many things , and yet nothing at the same time . |
| 14 | Deafening silence greeted their first efforts , yet nothing dissuaded the instrument-swapping Boston crew . |
| 15 | Yet nothing happened . |
| 16 | Yet nothing of this sophistication has been transmitted to their flock . |
| 17 | So many easy chairs too , of so many shapes ; each in itself a comfortable home ; yet nothing crowded … |
| 18 | Yet nothing had changed . |
| 19 | The hospital had started a set of poison tests when Dexter arrived but as yet nothing suspicious had been found . |
| 20 | It found that the Health and Safety Executive , West Yorkshire County Council , the Fire Brigade and Bradford City football club were all aware of the fire hazard caused by years of accumulated rubbish , yet nothing was done to eliminate it . |
| 21 | Yet nothing had gone right for the crusade . |
| 22 | ‘ Many have searched yet nothing has been found . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Yet nothing goes to his head — and he just does n't seem to have any nerves . ’ |
| 24 | Yet nothing , it seemed , could halt the flow of adrenalin that surged upwards or the flush of awareness that overwhelmed her as he cast his eyes over the carefully laid table , the food and , lastly , herself . |
| 25 | ‘ Anna has suffered a great deal already , yet nothing that 's happened has been of her making . |
| 26 | Yet nothing is done . |
| 27 | Yet nothing has in reality contributed so much to free the press from any control . |
| 28 | Just for a moment he met her eyes , his own very dark and filled with something that made her heart start to beat rapidly , high in her throat , yet nothing could have prepared her for the shock of what he said . |
| 29 | Yet nothing appeared to be missing . |
| 30 | A search was made for an apt sock-it-to-him opening remark , yet nothing came . |