Example sentences of "yet [pron] be not [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Throughout the world there exist diseases caused by treponemes that are to all intents and purposes identical to Treponema pallidum yet which are not transmitted sexually and , in some cases , may coexist with syphilis in the community .
2 You 're involved , and yet you 're not involved .
3 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 .
4 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 ?
5 Yet she was not downhearted .
6 She is blind herself yet she was not allowed to take her guide dog with her when she visited Buckingham Palace for the ceremony .
7 Yet we were not exposed last week , ’ he said .
8 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 .
9 Robertson says : ‘ They know they 've issued something completely contrary to the actual situation , yet they 're not going to issue a correction .
10 They will do things that ordinarily would injure them , and yet they are not injured ; superhuman acts , from lifting enormous weights to self-wounding .
11 At present , parents can be held responsible for the misdemeanors of their children , yet they are not allowed to chastise their children for fear of reprisals from the courts .
12 The Eastons ' sense of the history and archaeology of their house is evident in every detail , yet they are not imprisoned by that .
13 Yet they were not consulted before the project started and there has been no public inquiry of any kind .
14 It is no secret that the governor of Brixton prison knew on 4 February 1991 that a breakout from the prison was being actively contemplated by IRA terrorists in the prison , yet they were not split up or moved .
15 Yet they were not downhearted .
16 This is a book about baddies , yet it is not intended to be read by goodies , because there are n't many of them around .
17 The High Court itself is bound by the House of Lords and the Court of Appeal , yet it is not bound by its own previous decisions .
18 … It is to be competent where those who control can not be competent , yet it is not to control .
19 Yet it was not ripping off Mr Lamont .
20 Yet he is not to die : at the very last moment the image jumps slightly and then we note Custer 's singular absence at the centre of the famous circle , which at that moment begins to break up .
21 Planck forbids that , for he says that the energy ( equals loudness ) of vibration can only come in packets of a size prescribed by [ 1 ] But as yet he was not taken that seriously .
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