Example sentences of "yet [pron] be no [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , as in West Africa , a lady arises from a lake , yet she is no lady but the lake itself . |
| 2 | Replacement windows and doors , like these in a Regency terrace in Cheltenham in Gloucestershire , should have no place in Britain 's historic towns , according to the planners and yet there 's no law to stop it happening . |
| 3 | But yet there 's no doubt at all that despite the technical shortcomings of his work in subsequent judgement , erm Russell by this work became , I suppose , the main founder of modern logic , the main founder of this kind of logic which by the much more sophisticated symbolic apparatus erm is able to panelize a much wider range of logical phenomena , and hence to reveal the structure in a way which had not been possible before . |
| 4 | It 's just because I 'm so ashamed of what I 'm doing , yet there 's no way I can stop . |
| 5 | In 1983 the Infra-Red Astronomical Satellite , IRAS , discovered that it is associated with cool material which may indeed be planet-forming , though as yet there is no proof . |
| 6 | Yet there is no sign that it is to be applied . |
| 7 | Referring to Moser 's three sources of sampling bias mentioned earlier , it is clear that the sampling frame used ( two general practice records ) does not cover the whole population of housewives ; yet there is no evidence that these records represent a particularly unrepresentative sub-sample of the population . |
| 8 | Yet there is no evidence that jade from this source was reaching China before the eighteenth century . |
| 9 | Older people are always among the first to be made redundant and to retire prematurely yet there is no evidence to show ‘ that redundancy or early retirement are seriously associated with health or any general tendency for workers to become less productive with age . ’ |
| 10 | Longitudinal studies indicate that the condition affects people over long periods of their lives yet there is no evidence that they are at risk of any serious organic disease . |
| 11 | Yet there is no question of one 's hair rising . |
| 12 | Yet there is no question of one 's hair rising . |
| 13 | Yet there is no question about the constructive effect of concentrating national attention on a common problem by reporting the situation in the country at large . |
| 14 | Yet there is no question that , across the economic cycle , it has been the Rhine model which has shown far the most robust capacity for growth . |
| 15 | Yet there is no doubt that they have an active , social life , full of real and caring communication , carried on in a language quite alien to our own experience of mind and meaning . |
| 16 | Yet there is no doubt that at earlier periods he was wont often to exercise both his pleasantry and ingenuity in talking Jacobitism . ’ |
| 17 | But as yet there is no negligence action . |
| 18 | Among those which might not initially seem to permit postverbal adjectives are that versatile element keep , and also run , and play ; yet there is no problem about the following examples : ( 65 ) try to keep dry ! |
| 19 | Yet there is no heaviness here : the ribs are pure decoration and do not even follow their expected course ; they end abruptly as if there is no final solution . |
| 20 | Nuclear power accounted for only 1% of demand in 1983 yet there is no lack of enthusiasm for its development . |
| 21 | Yet there is no guarantee that the ‘ priority ’ industries contribute more to social product or to the balance of payments than ‘ non-priority ’ industries . |
| 22 | It is a phrase that underlies nearly all discussions on public policy , political action , social value and individual interest , yet there is no agreement as to what we mean when we use the term . |
| 23 | Yet there is no trace of arrogance in his writings or pronouncements , and for those who could track him down , there was a man who was more than ready to mull over the ideas of lesser mortals . |
| 24 | As yet there is no information on whether stores regulated by RYRs can induce capacitative entry if their calcium is drained by agents such as caffeine . |
| 25 | Yet there is no reason why Government can not enter into contracts with privatized companies whether privatization is on a regional basis or takes place in some other way . |
| 26 | By anyone 's standards these statistics are horrifying and are at epidemic proportions , yet there is no reason why we should accept heart disease as being inevitable . |
| 27 | Yet there is no reason — aside from short-sighted economics — why we should not increase our living area by creating new habitats for our species . |
| 28 | Yet there is no reason for anybody to believe that the company has behaved dishonourably . |
| 29 | Those parts are usually the most difficult to slim and as yet there is no diet to slim down-specific problem areas . ’ |
| 30 | Yet there is no indication that the conventional wisdom underlying shaft design is rooted in a body of hard evidence , either of a theoretical or experimental nature . |