Example sentences of "and yet [pron] [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the most important social changes and some of the greatest philanthropists in the last century were in the field of retailing and yet they are not our heroes . |
| 2 | They will do things that ordinarily would injure them , and yet they are not injured ; superhuman acts , from lifting enormous weights to self-wounding . |
| 3 | We 're objecting to the fact they have 28 hours of airspace that they 're devoting to people in need and yet they 're not allowing the people who are in need to say what their needs are . |
| 4 | Oh well it 's always protection of the family and yet they 're not prepared to put anything to the family . |
| 5 | And yet they were not serene really , were they ? |
| 6 | And yet we are not which Conservative because at the end of the day you will be an S S A which is expenditure or ie . |
| 7 | ‘ The Braer disaster has affected everybody in Shetland and yet we are not involved in any of the inquiry processes . |
| 8 | And yet he was not doctrinaire about it , having declared on the contrary ( as early as 1917 , significantly in a review of Eliot 's Prufrock and Other Observations ) : |
| 9 | Mr Crump could not have wished for better and yet he was not as responsive as Hope had expected : indeed he only barely acknowledged the compliment . |
| 10 | And yet I am not happy . |
| 11 | I was Nicky and yet I was not Nicky . |
| 12 | He knows or can guess , just as much about me as Mahoney , and yet I 'm not frightened . |
| 13 | Trouble is now , cos I know a hairdresser the shop , if I go somewhere else , it looks a bit you know and yet I 'm not very satisfied with the way he cuts it , he 's done it cheap . |
| 14 | One of the most common practical problems at the time of someone 's death is that there are lots of extra expenses involved and yet it is not possible to get hold of cash or obtain access to funds because financial accounts have to be reorganized following the death of the person concerned . |
| 15 | ‘ She lays it at our door , I am sure , and yet it is not our fault she is in difficulties . ’ |
| 16 | And yet it is not unusual to hear of problems . |
| 17 | To see it requires imagination , and yet it is not itself the product of imagination . |
| 18 | And yet it 's not Yelverton 's poems that win your attention but his performance : he believes in rock'n'roll — Lord Byron style . |
| 19 | You say your life is too precious to give it up for any country and yet it 's not valuable enough for you to pay me two hundred pounds not to shoot you . |
| 20 | and yet it 's not really any distance , into . |
| 21 | And yet it was not the face of her customer that she saw in her mind , but the strong lean jaw and the dark unfathomable eyes of a stranger . |
| 22 | And yet it was not all bad news , she reminded herself , because Matthew was no longer condemned to go underground in order to earn a living , and David had told her how amazed he was at ‘ the boy 's remarkably quick mind and business acumen ’ . |
| 23 | ’ — And yet you are not , I think , your father 's heir ? ’ |
| 24 | You 're involved , and yet you 're not involved . |
| 25 | It 's just we got the board and it 's taking up all the room in the playroom and yet you 're not playing with it . |
| 26 | And when you have that context where these people need help more and more and yet you 're not going to be able to supply it , is n't that almost criminal ? |