Example sentences of "though it [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Information retrieval should be recognized as a skill within its own right , though it forms an integral part of wider study skills .
2 The mine had its tunnel driven into the side of a steep bank , making the hill look as though it had a toothless mouth .
3 Many years ago I used to write for a magazine called ‘ Electronics and Computing Monthly ’ which was killed , even though it had a good circulation .
4 However , this is the party that goes on about unemployment as though it had a good record on unemployment .
5 Of all the uniformed organizations , the Boys ' Life Brigade founded in Nottingham by the Revd John Brown Paton , was the most distinctive in so far as it appeared to be non-military , committed as it was to the principles of life-saving , even though it had a BB-style uniform and a military command structure .
6 These five species constitute what may be called the typical owl pattern , and even though it encompasses a fair degree of variability it is consistent enough for departures from it to be instantly recognizable .
7 The conceptual content required in this case to describe the institution , though it involves a great deal of cultural elaboration , does not display the same kind of break between the pre-cultural and the cultural as is found in the incest case ; and the biological pattern of explanation could recognizably run through such ideas as human beings finding certain institutions ‘ natural ’ , which does not require any appeal to a rational collective agency to understand the basic biological idea , as is damagingly the case with the incest example .
8 Though it involves a few minutes ' paperwork , a worthwhile exercise is to jot down your own personal list of pros and cons , under the headings : ‘ spending now ’ and ‘ spending later ’ .
9 There was nothing valuable in it , though it seemed a great deal in the eyes of these people . ’
10 It was very good — even though it left a nasty taste in my mouth , the same sort of shudder I felt when I first read The Turn of the Screw .
11 Such spiral waves could be induced by injecting the non-metabolizable analogue InsPS 3 ( ref. 70 ) , whereas the injection of calcium had no effect even though it caused a localized elevation of calcium .
12 Out from behind a petrol pump appeared a figure that was female , though it took a few seconds to realise it .
13 While London did not consult the Dominions much on financial matters ( though it made a public ploy of doing so ) it lacked the political will or administrative means to make the rigorous control of dollar imports practised in the UK effective in those countries .
14 However , the UK failed in its attempt to head off the EC Commission , even though it made a last-minute offer to bring forward compliance of five water supplies contaminated with nitrate , from 1995 to 1991–4 , ‘ a shift , ’ according to ENDS , ‘ which , until then , the UK had insisted would be impractical . ’
15 Though it uses a modified self adjusting back , this is not obvious .
16 He was also partly , though not wholly , responsible for the ‘ non-intervention ’ policy which Britain and France pursued with regard to the Spanish Civil War , even though it was being blatantly ignored by Germany , Italy and Russia , and though it denied a legitimate Republican government the right of access to the world market for arms with which to defend itself .
17 Although the soya protein content was listed in the ingredients it was not included in the name of the products , even though it formed a substantial proportion .
18 Chelsea College , which is under strong pressure to merge with one of the larger colleges , does not appear in the list , even though it has a strong electronics department .
19 The Blandford fly is the most famous British representative , which though it has a nasty bite , does n't harbour any nasty parasites .
20 One of the best known of all British sociological studies , Young and Willmott 's Family and Kinship in East London ( 1957 ) , could be said to be a community study , though it has a specific focus and is based mainly , though not entirely , on data collected through a social survey .
21 Ilmor 's Mario Ilien responded to the apparent inconsistency of these threats by pointing out that Fiat did not appear to be included in the ban — even though it has an official Alfa Romeo CART team , operated by Patrick Racing , competing in the Surfers event .
22 Space behaves as though it has an overall curvature .
23 ( Eg if ‘ Painting ’ existed in the document and the search text : was ‘ paint ’ , the ‘ Paint ’ in ‘ Painting ’ would be selected even though it has an initial capital and is part of another word . )
24 Written as a journalistic offering without benefit of references or even a bibliography , it still manages to inform the reader on many of the internal features of Saddam Hussein 's rise to power , though it has an infuriating tendency to dart back and forth over the past 30 years , too much like a 1960s film trying to be clever .
25 Strangely , the sun also shone , though it turned a dusty red , blotted out by the dark wings of vultures .
26 Though it gave a good account of itself , Dave gently persuaded the fish close enough to be lifted aboard the boat .
27 I do n't really know the answer though it seems a fair question .
28 Fielding , Amis once remarked , showed that fiction can uphold a moral seriousness ‘ without evangelical puffing and blowing ’ ; his Take a Girl Like You ( 1960 ) has been aptly called a modernised replay of Richardson 's Pamela ; and when asked by a journalist which of the great novelists of the past he felt the closest affinity with , he replied reverently : ‘ With Fielding , though it seems a gross impertinence … ’ .
29 Though it packed a stronger punch in the north-eastern states , it wreaked greater havoc in the south .
30 The commercial and business orientation which the public corporation ( as distinct from Ministry ) form of management was designed to preserve , was inevitably diluted by this process , though it remained an important part of the self-image of those working in the industry .
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