Example sentences of "though [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Running a farm on green lines will mean much more planning ahead and developing such techniques as homeopathic treatment for sick cows , though as a last resort medication will be given . |
| 2 | Even though as a graduate I was something of an oddity , I was absorbed into the background after a time and people treated me as one of them . |
| 3 | It was to this great tradition , though as a self-confessedly very junior follower , that Lewis quite easily and naturally belonged . |
| 4 | The drive was some 30 yards behind Palmer 's , though as a short hitter he would be frequently so . |
| 5 | Farms in DRAs tend to be far less capital intensive than those in the more advantaged areas , and though as a result , are perhaps less exposed to the problem of debt-servicing than wealthier farmers , their incomes are more susceptible to relatively small fluctuations in commodity prices . |
| 6 | Living in such a house would nonetheless have exposed Leapor to a more leisured way of life than she had known before , though as a servant her enjoyments would have been circumscribed . |
| 7 | Leapor 's work was generally not compared to that of men , though as a female writer she commanded a position of importance for some time . |
| 8 | It was thus unnecessary for the development officer to fulfil this role in many cases , though as a member of the team herself she sometimes did so . |
| 9 | It is one of the humbling lessons we learn from living with companion animals , namely that we are in so many ways their inferiors , even though as a species we have come to dominate the planet . |
| 10 | For the second question and answer we did n't even bother to load the camera , though as a matter of courtesy , we let him carry on bawling . |
| 11 | Some of the houses were haunted , though as a child I did n't know they were haunted . |
| 12 | The advantages of longitudinal studies are that they make it possible to study change over time , though as a series of snapshots rather than as a continuous process . |
| 13 | His people kept him monstrously short — ’ I ca n't wait till they discover the debts I 've made ; though as a matter of fact I can wait , it would be wiser too . ’ |
| 14 | The next move towards national organisation for seamen also arose on the north east coast , though as a result of a very different impetus . |
| 15 | Wilson was hard put to rebut all these complaints , admitting that his management of funds had been bad , though as a result of inexperience rather than dishonesty . |
| 16 | The district of Harrow received the largest influx of any local authority in Greater London between 1921 and 1938 ( 134,480 persons ) , though as a percentage increase that for Wembley was greater than for Harrow . |
| 17 | Management of a business can only justify its existence and its authority by the economic results it produces , even though as a consequence of their actions , significant non-economic results occur as well . |
| 18 | Violet Markham , for example , recalled in her autobiography that her antagonism to the vote was closely associated with her imperialism , even though as a Liberal she often felt herself to be siding with a ‘ hotbed of reactionaries ’ . |
| 19 | Soon she was fluent in conversation and public speaking though as a young lieutenant she felt very much a beginner . |
| 20 | Other prominent industrialists were involved in canal promotion , though as a group they seem to have provided only a small part of the necessary finance . |
| 21 | The difference is subtle , but the difference is fundamental , even though for a hundred years the British managed not to realise it , because they desperately wanted not to . |
| 22 | Bells rang as though for a funeral and the first rumour was that both Napoleon and Victor Emmanuel had been killed . |
| 23 | Reactor operation could be manipulated , though for a PWR this would involve shutting down the reactor more frequently than usual . |
| 24 | Cutting off the flow of refugees did not solve the financial problem , though for a time the government acted on the assumption that the refugee organisations could now look after themselves . |
| 25 | As far back as can be traced it has been a village of yeomen , small independent farmers , and never since medieval times an estate village ruled by one big landowner , though for a period in the 18th and 19th centuries the Grimston family of Kilnwick and later the Hothams of South Dalton acquired some farms . |
| 26 | It was given enough credence in the 1960s , though for a monument to be erected by the Roman ford in Bredcroft meadow recording her chase . |
| 27 | By the 1840s there was some knowledge of the rhythm method of birth control from discussions by French physicians Pouchet and Raciborski on women 's ovulation cycle , though for a while it was believed that the safe period was immediately after menstruation . |
| 28 | A sinister looking cluster of motor-bikes huddled in front of the other one , the Goat and Compasses ; as the Glovers passed two more arrived with a deafening roar and two androgynous figures , clad in skin-tight leather as though for a bout of deep-sea diving , went into the pub , stripping off immense gauntlets . |
| 29 | Dexter had been stationed in Brixton several years before and he inhaled the familiar atmosphere as he wound along Coldharbour Lane towards Peckham : the dilapidated shops selling second-hand furniture and televisions , the handsome couple posing against a car as though for a fashion magazine , the parked cars tumbling over the pavement . |
| 30 | They still exchanged gifts and trade with the Emperor ; they still had the interest and friendship of Pope Leo , even though for a year the Pope had been not in Rome but in Germany , caught by the cry for a mediator between attacking Germany and defending Hungary ; pressed by the fighting in Italy to beg help against the triumphant Normans . |