Example sentences of "[coord] yet [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never mind that this idea destroys the fundamental premise of J. M. Barrie 's story , which ends with a vision of Wendy 's descendants continuing to visit the Neverland with an eternally youthful Peter ‘ so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless ’ ; nor yet that Captain James Hook has somehow escaped from the jaws of the ticking crocodile to dream of a return engagement with the leader of the Lost Boys . |
| 2 | Never mind that this idea destroys the fundamental premise of J. M. Barrie 's story , which ends with a vision of Wendy 's descendants continuing to visit the Neverland with an eternally youthful Peter ‘ so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless ’ ; nor yet that Captain James Hook has somehow escaped from the jaws of the ticking crocodile to dream of a return engagement with the leader of the Lost Boys . |
| 3 | It is brought out clearly , and even contrasted with the Hebrew view , in the Epistle to the Hebrews , 9 : 25–6 : ‘ Nor yet that he should offer himself often , as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with the blood of others ; For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world ; but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself . ’ |
| 4 | And yet that only should be able to stimulate dreams , create anxiety . |
| 5 | It accepted that monogamy was inherent in Christianity and yet that there were polygamous societies where even the Church could not enforce the rule at once , and that the chief way forward lay in a progressive emancipation of women in those societies , especially in the sphere of education . |
| 6 | It therefore required no feat of prophecy to assert that long before the twentieth century was out , the United Kingdom would be a country without empire and not in the front rank in size and power , and yet that this would not be synonymous with disaster , dishonour or extinction . |
| 7 | And sometimes , towards dawn , the music would be at full blast and there would be hardly any movement at all , nothing left except maybe just one couple kissing — and yet that looked like dancing too . |
| 8 | You will recall that Mrs Carrington spoke of her husband losing his rationality , and yet that he wanted to retain control over his fate . |
| 9 | It is not yet known whether research would confirm these hypotheses of the character of certain distinct twentieth-century paranational cultural formations , though they provide an initial basis for considering the contradictory character of the history of the avant-garde movements : that they represent sharp and even violent breaks with received and traditional practices ( a dissidence or revolt rather than a literal avant garde ) ; and yet that they become ( in ways separable from the important facts of their dilution and commercial exploitation ) the dominant culture of a succeeding metropolitan and paranational period . |
| 10 | These things alter amazingly you know , I mean it 's incredible that the , the sort of and yet that they both work . |
| 11 | Perhaps because the average standard of anglers has improved they are not quite held in so much esteem and yet that really is not quite fair , given that it is now harder to achieve a level of consistency with open match results . |