Example sentences of "yet it [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fourteen inches from the floor it 's supposed to be , yet it 's nearly tripping me . |
| 2 | Well we read about prayer and we know about its power but you know we often do n't avail ourselves off it and yet it 's plainly written . |
| 3 | Yet it 's also claimed that a primary characteristic of the play is that element of redemption which binds together all your work . |
| 4 | Yet it 's seldom reported , and rarely punished . |
| 5 | And yet it 's actually made him look much older and less attractive . |
| 6 | Yet it is fast becoming conventional wisdom about the liberal markets of America , Britain , Canada and Australia , both at home and abroad in their less financially liberal rivals , such as Germany , Japan and France . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | … It is to be competent where those who control can not be competent , yet it is not to control . |
| 10 | This may be regarded as the chairman exercising his prerogative to amuse himself ; yet it is also governed by a simple and earnest desire to amuse others . |
| 11 | Yet it is also stylized , very arty in its slow motion and repetitions , grotesquely exaggerated in the number of bullet hits scored on both bodies ( by the usual device of small charges and sachets of ‘ blood ’ ) and staged quite artificially . |
| 12 | Yet it is normally said that it is a breach of an agent 's duty to act for competing principals . |
| 13 | It was obvious that the cause of the accident was totally unrelated to the facilities provided at Lusaka , yet it is internationally agreed that the State in which an accident occurs has the responsibility of instituting and conducting the investigation . |
| 14 | The most versatile paper is perhaps the 140lb weight , because it is strong enough to handle traditional watercolour techniques and a reasonable amount of water , yet it is moderately priced . |
| 15 | The problem here was that genuine open dialogue is unpredictable and can lead anywhere ; it is not consistent with the pursuit of a detailed prearranged plan of work , yet it is widely accepted as an appropriate medium for teaching . |
| 16 | The ‘ Oedipus complex ’ has become part of our common language , and yet it is seldom taken seriously ( except by parents of four-year-old boys — and even then it is unexpected ) . |
| 17 | An example may be found in Mozart 's third sentence from the Andante just quoted : This looks quite different from the previous section ( Example 26 ) , yet it is really made up of semiquaver groups which end the second sentence , with the addition of the dotted rhythm which begins the second full bar of the music . |
| 18 | Yet it is all ordered and organized in the most exquisite manner . |
| 19 | Yet it is currently playing a vital role in contemporary geometry , as in the work on self-similar fractals by Benoit Mandelbrot , at IBM 's research centre at Yorktown Heights in New York ( Figure 3a ) . |
| 20 | Yet it is usually ignored in school management training . |
| 21 | The invention and development of the material means of cultural production is a remarkable chapter of human history , yet it is usually underplayed , by comparison with the invention and development of what are more easily seen as forms of material production , in food , tools , shelter and utilities . |
| 22 | The equation of state of molecular hydrogen at high pressures and temperatures is particularly important and yet it is poorly known . |
| 23 | Yet it is now becoming well recognised that pathogens may exist in forms without cell walls and may generate ‘ slow bacterial infections ’ in which the organism will not be easily cultured . |
| 24 | Yet it is still staging two new productions out of five , Britten 's Peter Grimes and Tchaikovsky 's The Queen of Spades . |