Example sentences of "though [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pay of a sailor in the French navy in 1789 was practically the same as it had been a century before , though during that period prices had almost doubled . |
| 2 | On the most miniature scale of all , smaller even than the demes , were the Attic komai or villages ; even these had their komarchs , though about these officials virtually nothing is known . |
| 3 | Today , security is the remaining stumbling block , Earle says , though for that 10% above , data security is probably not crucial . |
| 4 | Fleischmann and Pons ' ideas had been anticipated though for all the wrong reasons , primarily a misguided attempt to make helium to fill airships , and all this because the USA would not sell the gas to postwar Germany . |
| 5 | It is a real mountain town , though for all its remoteness one of the oldest and best patronized of the Pyrenean spas , once , as I have said , managed by the monks of Saint-Savin . |
| 6 | Should victory be achieved over England next month , others could come into contention too , though for all the Scottish aspirants , there will be an agonising wait until the final round of championship matches is completed on 20 March , the Scottish campaign finishing a fortnight earlier . |
| 7 | It was then but a short — though for many an agonising — step to provide special courses for those coming out of special schools and the remedial classes of comprehensives . |
| 8 | Althusser 's historical interest derives from the fact that he represents the only orthodox Marxist theorist who has tried to get out of Hegel while remaining a Marxist — though for many Marxists he did sacrifice Marxism in the process , which only suggests how closely Marxism and Hegelianism are intertwined . |
| 9 | In time , the iron drilling chisel was superseded by the much tougher steel , though for many years in the interim , mine smiths steeled , or tipped , the iron jumpers with a steel chisel edge . |
| 10 | And it is equally inadequate to suggest that the audience should only respond morally , elevated by the supposed triumph of good over evil — even though for many people now this is undoubtedly the effect of tragedy . |
| 11 | Although these qualities may appear as a formidable list , they are mostly present in people , even though for many reasons they often remain undeveloped . |
| 12 | A few of the imported cattle were shipped wig-Holstein ( on the Jutland peninsula ) , which has never been a part of the Netherlands , rather than from Friesland or North or South Holland like the majority of the exported black-and-whites , and the Americans named their Dutch cattle ‘ Holsteins ’ almost by mistake , though for half a century from 1852 95 per cent of the black-and-whites imported into North America came from the Netherlands . |
| 13 | ‘ Though for some totally inexplicable reason that seems to be the truth . |
| 14 | Changing the law on mistake in rape could help to change these social attitudes , even though for some time to come defendants might find themselves charged with rape because of such ingrained attitudes towards women . |
| 15 | The big news of the day , he said , though for some inexplicable reason the Guardian ignored it , concerned the lovers who had bonked in a British Rail platform photo booth . |
| 16 | Now the receipt of unsolicited junk mail may seem a relatively trivial matter ( though for some , who seem to regard their letter-box as part of their person , it is an affront ) — and it certainly seems effective as a marketing device . |
| 17 | They were very good friends , which neither Daphne nor Cecilia could really understand , though for some time , especially before the advent of Brian , both mothers had hopes of their ‘ making a match of it ’ . |
| 18 | He was dressed in a blue blazer and white trousers as though for some pre-war cruise . |
| 19 | These are far-ranging debates on the state of the economy , though for some third of the time members have actually talked about taxation . |
| 20 | You may have read in the press what he said — though for some reason it was not reported in the RTV news coverage of the event . |
| 21 | Here , in Britain too , some people try to do that , though for most of us it is n't easy since we have no prosperity . |
| 22 | They were her Aladdin 's caves and , ever since her inheritance , open to her as often as she chose , though for most of the year she contented herself with a reminder of them in the small parcels . |
| 23 | Many people find it hard to counter the argument of ‘ people before buildings ’ that the Church puts forward , even though for most of us the visible presence of a church — whether still in religious use or not — is an important and reassuring symbol of faith to all who pass by . |
| 24 | Come retirement , even though for most people the issues are not particularly complex , a little basic knowledge can be invaluable . |
| 25 | Kim had been on the Wiring Project for almost year now , though for most of that time he had been kept out of things by Spatz . |
| 26 | By about 1930 she had ceased painting , though for several more years she made small , colourful , increasingly abstract water-colours . |
| 27 | On this account , several types of information influence the on-line interpretation of anaphors , though for any particular kind of anaphor one type of information predominates in determining considered judgements . |
| 28 | In a separate experiment they actually monitored the eye fixations of subjects while watching the slide and found that in the arousal condition subjects fixated more often on central details , though for less time per fixation . |
| 29 | ‘ For such a friend I had , though after all |
| 30 | His employer , Oscar Godolphin , was one of the eleven to whom the flame of Roxborough 's intent had been passed , though of all of them surely none was so perfect a hypocrite as Godolphin , who was both a member of a Society committed to the repression of all magical activity , and the employer ( Godolphin would have said owner ) of a creature summoned by magic in the very year of the tragedy that had brought the Society into being . |