Example sentences of "yet [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The West German electorate lacks confidence in Chancellor Kohl and his team , but has yet to be convinced that the SPD , with whatever future coalition partner it chooses , will do much better .
2 But I have yet to be convinced ( as some publicity suggests ) that the centre of the dance universe is now located in France .
3 Stirling has yet to be convinced even by Samuel 's figure .
4 But I have yet to be convinced of the need that these should be taken at two particular times in a student 's school career .
5 Ludes wines are welcomed for their use in blending of cuvées , they have the body and vinosity of a true Montagne wine , but I have yet to be convinced that a single growth Ludes can be a complete wine on its own .
6 He plans to market CIRVs in packs of six for £50,000 , and says that while potential users such as the SAS and RAF aircrew have shown great interest in the concept , Whitehall purse keepers have yet to be convinced .
7 Although Ian Wright will be included and is likely to get another chance , Taylor has yet to be convinced he is the right man to play alongside the Blackburn striker .
8 President Bush has yet to be convinced that ‘ going green ’ will translate into real votes come the presidential election later in the year , and his advisers ( who enjoy nothing so much as bashing a few Greens on the media before breakfast ) have sown so many doubts in his mind about ‘ the lack of scientific evidence ’ that global warming is not seen to be one of the challenges he now faces — despite the fact that his country is responsible for nearly 30 per cent of all emissions of carbon dioxide , the main greenhouse gas .
9 Because the majority of college lecturers have yet to be convinced that there are better ways of conveying information — e.g. by the use of video or computer — or are too lazy to investigate or to try them .
10 I 'm yet to be convinced . ’
11 ‘ So you say , but I have yet to be convinced .
12 I 've yet to be convinced of this , I 'm still waiting to find out .
13 Helen tells me you want to do farm work as well , and although I 'm told women vets are just as good as men I 've yet to be convinced .
14 They are yet to be involved in the testing process : ‘ My real concern for my children is that they have n't gone through the tests for 14-year-olds yet , ’ he says .
15 At one and the same time he seemed to accept every word and yet to be stricken with fear .
16 He had n't the speed yet to be sure Golden Girl would come about .
17 At the start , when you still have enough energy to argue if you can see Schiehallion or not , and your first piece of chocolate has yet to be unwrapped , the distant peak beckoning on the far side of the ridge is sensational .
18 She had yet to be impressed by the Eastern clergy , who not only countenanced belief in the miraculous powers of human teeth , but actually traded in bogus religious relics .
19 Unfortunately , the second strand to the Report that a Lending and Security Act be implemented to regulate commercial transactions has yet to be successful .
20 To have Midnight lying almost above her head and yet to be incapable of protecting him , or even taking the water he needed , was a kind of torment .
21 The next step , that of being ‘ participant as an observer ’ , requires observers to adopt roles which enable them to become a member of a group and yet to be able to ask questions without fully disclosing their roles as researchers .
22 I had yet to be disillusioned .
23 We have already seen that depressive or manic responses may be shown to be related to the problem of the son 's relation to the mother and his contradictory desire to be devoted to her as the ideal mother of hunter-gatherer prehistory and yet to be free of her as the phallic , dominant mother of primal agriculture .
24 Each approach seems to have its merits , yet to be irreconcilable with others .
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