Example sentences of "yet [pers pn] [be] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet I am universally loved . |
| 2 | Ajax was not dragging Cassandra from sanctuary but standing trial before his peers for that impious act ; yet she was still seated on the ground clasping the image fallen from its pedestal . |
| 3 | and yet she was always treated as one of the , the family , but it 's silly because you 've done what you can when they 're living . |
| 4 | Yet we are also agreed that it can never be complete in itself . |
| 5 | Yet we are still left with the impression that these two Greeks never quite understood what was really happening in the social organism which had become the guarantee of their own survival . |
| 6 | It was cold and windy and yet we were often called out for help in the spasmodic raids on South Kensington and Chelsea . |
| 7 | No doubt many users of the word ‘ introspection ’ are unaware of its Latin etymology ( from introspicio ‘ look within' ) , yet they are surely influenced by its affinities with ‘ inspect ’ , ‘ spectator ’ , ‘ spectacle ’ ; otherwise , why do they claim to introspect entities as not physical but mental because not extended in space , treating introspection as analogous with sight , which reveals spatial extension , rather than with hearing , smell or taste , which just as much as consciousness of love or anger , hope or fear , exhibit temporal change without spatial extension ? |
| 8 | No fewer than 39,000 members of the Merchant Service lost their lives in the Second World War , many of them in the Western Approaches , yet they are invariably overshadowed by their more glamorous allies in the Royal Navy . |
| 9 | Yet they are often neglected . |
| 10 | Yet they are often inhibited from doing so by the structure of vertical integration imposed by resource-seeking investors from the consuming markets . |
| 11 | Yet they are still grounded . |
| 12 | ‘ Rebellions have never succeeded in Ireland , ’ Father Poole said , ‘ and yet they are always attempted . |
| 13 | Yet they are commonly sited in dark and inaccessible places , and we really do not know how often , if at all , they were generally seen , within the period and culture in which they were made . |
| 14 | It would be unfair to say that the landscape was featureless geology has provided some outstanding , literally outstanding , items of topography , yet they are far flung and , in general , the landscape components are not keen to assemble themselves into the kind of artistic compositions we have grown used to . |
| 15 | They are wholesale not retail deposits , and yet they were still included in M1 . |
| 16 | THE Western borderlands of Soviet Russia were the nearest to Moscow of all frontier regions , yet they were relatively neglected by historians and travellers alike . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Yet it 's also claimed that a primary characteristic of the play is that element of redemption which binds together all your work . |
| 19 | Yet it 's seldom reported , and rarely punished . |
| 20 | And yet it 's actually made him look much older and less attractive . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Yet it is normally said that it is a breach of an agent 's duty to act for competing principals . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Yet it is all ordered and organized in the most exquisite manner . |
| 30 | Yet it is usually ignored in school management training . |