Example sentences of "yet [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to challenge this complex of interlocking polarities , Amalgamemnon goes back to a time when the two domains , though distinct , were not yet differentiated by separate modes of narrative , back to Herodotus , the first prose artist and ‘ the father of fibstory ’ ( 22,113 ) . |
| 2 | MORE than 2000 houses will be provided in Lothian over the next year in the largest investment programme yet undertaken by Scottish Homes . |
| 3 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB has a $470m contract for Groupe Speciale Mobile equipment from Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH : the contract covers infrastructure , services and telephones and is the largest the company has yet received for mobile phone kit . |
| 4 | Miscellaneous assets largely consist of payments owed but not yet received from other banks . |
| 5 | Campaign financing is encouraged and yet limited through structural features of the American political system . |
| 6 | Candles and Dark Night describes a poetic , mythical countryside , recognisably British yet ravaged by civil war and impossible to date , though it has the atmosphere of the 1950s . |
| 7 | The new season again brought some work on opera-ballet , with a new production of Die Fledermaus at Sadler 's Wells on 10 January 1949 giving a bigger opportunity than he had yet enjoyed in that genre . |
| 8 | His tone was calm , even , yet underlaid with tempered steel . |
| 9 | Is this the best book yet written on medieval illumination ? |
| 10 | Taken together , they represent the most forceful link yet made by respected institutions between man-made atmospheric pollution and global warming . |
| 11 | Equal opportunity legislation exists in most advanced countries but this is not yet reflected in equal pay rates . |
| 12 | Some fifteen years ago , it was extended and now goes around the northern tip of the peninsula before turning south for a straight run down the west coast in bleak country , featureless except for the sad ruins of abandoned crofts yet relieved by glorious views across to Skye and the islands of the Inner Sound . |
| 13 | Although Thames Water say they have n't yet prosecuted over previous bans , water resources manager Dave Cook says they may have to clamp down further . |
| 14 | The concept of a Universal Field presupposes the existence of a pre-physical body made of fine degrees of matter not yet recognised by orthodox science , which regulates and controls the creature , whatever it may be . |
| 15 | The nine-coach train carrying just twenty-eight passengers each paying around £2,600 a time , was billed as ‘ the highest point yet reached in luxury train travel ’ , its on-train cuisine described as ‘ simply the best on any train anywhere in the world ’ . |
| 16 | The image of the immigrant as not yet integrated into American society , poor , and not fulfilling American standards of cleanliness was complete . |
| 17 | This step was welcomed by the Cinematograph Times , which could not resist pointing out that ‘ much of the criticism directed against the art expressed in the cinema originates from the small class not yet accustomed to modern outlook ’ who assumes ‘ that no art can exist or progress that does not begin with their patronage ’ and ‘ who do not yet appreciate that the masses today are fully competent to judge and to give expression to their own tastes ’ . |
| 18 | Dated to the second half of the second century , it seems to have been a tannery and leather workshop , and is not only one of the few reliable instances yet found for this industry , but is also one of the few industries attested at Alcester . |
| 19 | It represents the earliest and most extensive exploitation of marine resources yet known in southern Africa and possibly anywhere else in the world . |
| 20 | British wave energy research has not yet recovered from this body blow . |
| 21 | Needless to say no one has yet proved by blind testing that any of the effects claimed are reproducible . |
| 22 | Those who attend her Medau class love her style of teaching — it is light-hearted and spontaneous , yet characterised by serious determination to help pupils of all levels of ability to improve their performance . |
| 23 | This is important because it is directly relevant to understanding the mechanism of a type of eruption not yet observed at first hand by any human being , but one that would make the Mt Pelee eruption pale into insignificance if an example were to occur today . |
| 24 | The road , a single car 's width , now heads south on a tortuous journey of ups and downs and ins and outs through a tangled landscape of low hillocks , gneiss outcrops , peat bogs and small lochans that lap the roadside verges , furnished with occasional clumps of trees and bordered by heather and gorse : an undisciplined maze yet endowed with infinite beauty . |
| 25 | ‘ You 've seen me naked before , ’ he continued , his voice soft yet laden with some kind of threat . |
| 26 | They were completely carefree , seventeen and eighteen years old , released from irksome school , not yet burdened with adult responsibility . |
| 27 | No examples of the Fourth and Fifth Labours have yet appeared on British vessels , but there are several versions of the Sixth Labour , the Stymphalian Birds . |
| 28 | As we will see , however , the all-or-none conception of activation leads to some very powerful predictions , including some which are counterintuitive yet supported by experimental results . |
| 29 | The later stages , at still higher Rayleigh number , have not yet yielded to theoretical analysis and our knowledge of them comes entirely from experimental observation . |
| 30 | This means that the ‘ same ’ cell can be studied in preparation after preparation , its connections and the effects of stimulating or excising it followed in detail — something that is quite impossible in any of the organisms yet discussed in this chapter ( Figure 7.5 ) . |