Example sentences of "yet still " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having said that , if you weigh only 60 kg ( 132 lb ) and yet still manage to sit your 90 kg ( 198 lb ) opponent down with a solid thump to his mid-section , then the refereeing panel may well applaud your fervour with a full point . |
| 2 | If decoration is to remain valid it must be subordinate to the over-riding proportions and the requirements of use of the object in question ; yet still look good . |
| 3 | Meanwhile Pound has proposed an English poet who is more nearly an analogue to Gautier than any so far mentioned , a nearer analogue and yet still not wholly trustworthy because he is ‘ from poem to poem , extremely uneven ’ . |
| 4 | They even doubled back to watch Francis yet still managed to send away their forwards . |
| 5 | Mr Sweet has already lost planning applications , High Court hearings and a Crown Court prosecution , yet still fights on . |
| 6 | World View : So close yet still far apart : Timothy Garton Ash reflects on what it means when Germans start behaving like Poles , and Poles like Germans |
| 7 | It has , too , an inspirational engine : wailing gloriously when revved hard , yet still docile enough to pull the car along tamely in traffic . |
| 8 | The Quartets are all the more impressive for having this political dimension worked into them , yet still subordinated beneath the religious scheme . |
| 9 | Eliot 's familiar theme that the savage exists even below the urban world on a forgotten , yet still potent and often dangerous level is here reiterated : |
| 10 | Yet still it appears impossible to discover the ownership of shares held through a minor Swiss bank which were used to help a second division British company build up stakes in several third division British companies . |
| 11 | Once Dot had seen a canary in a bent cage pulled out , black like a little sparrow from the ashes and soot , yet still singing even though its owner was gone . |
| 12 | ‘ My dear , she said , ‘ limited grey matter Miss Lilian may have , yet still she rejoices to be alive . |
| 13 | How could a person have written as off-handedly , as cruelly , as she had done , yet still be able to add those cryptic letters , relic of a loving bond ? |
| 14 | Yet still Jacob has him in his grip , and the mysterious assailant begs him to let him go ‘ for the day is breaking ’ . |
| 15 | Yet still God wears the dress of healer . |
| 16 | The room downstairs had grown quiet , yet still the Irishman had not emerged . |
| 17 | He descended the nearest flight of steps to where bushes of peonies grew in untidy profusion , their blossoms well past their prime yet still magnificent . |
| 18 | Among his opponents was Pinza , ridden by Gordon Richards , the most successful and ( more to the point ) most loved jockey in British Turf history , yet still trying to win the Derby after twenty-seven unavailing attempts : to add further spice to the occasion , the announcement had just been made that Richards had been awarded a knighthood , the first jockey to be so honoured . |
| 19 | Mandarin 's jockey Fred Winter , four times champion , was no stranger to Auteuil yet still had to work hard at memorizing the peculiar configurations of the course . |
| 20 | Like Hannah she is angry at the ideal presented to her by the advertising world , as she feels it has nothing to do with her , yet still has the power to make her feel dissatisfied . |
| 21 | Akhmatova , elderly , swollen up with thyroid , yet still majestic . |
| 22 | Taken together , they offered a picture of humanity in millennia to come — spread across the galaxy , with Earth but a distant memory — yet still in thrall to its sublunary nature . |
| 23 | The Conservatives were in trouble , yet still Labour lost . |
| 24 | All four still look as though they 'd be more comfortable in jail than in a rhinestone suit , while their voices remain wonderfully battered instruments — weathered , stoic and yet still full of yearning . |
| 25 | Yet still we lost . |
| 26 | The show is reportedly a cracker , with a set comprising the Diamonds and Pearls album , a lot of unreleased material yet still leaving room for all Prince 's greatest hits . |
| 27 | Much here seems hinge on the residential sector being able to offer specialist help to that decreasing yet still substantial number of youngsters who are unable to live with families or independently . |
| 28 | It is easier to do this if one can switch course , yet still be working within the framework of broad objectives . |
| 29 | It 's fortunate that the requirements are that only details of regulations need be published making it possible to summarise the regulations and translate them into a more user friendly language yet still comply with the law . |
| 30 | They are distinct from the cell 's main store of DNA , the bacterial chromosome , yet still multiply during cell growth . |