Example sentences of "though in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Damage to the apical meristem shows similar patterns with respect to distance from adults and density of seedlings as the pathogen damage in Platypodium , though in Dipteryx it is due to insect herbivory and tree or litter fall . |
| 2 | Though in receivership , the golf course is open and has held championships . |
| 3 | He smiled , touching her cheek as though in apology . |
| 4 | It looks as though there had been a Phoenician settlement on the island which introduced this strain ; and though in pottery a true Geometric style supervenes , the eastern tradition seems to linger on , especially in fine gold work , to link up with the orientalising phase proper . |
| 5 | As though in wonder that any virus , let alone a foreign one , would dare to get up the royal hooter . |
| 6 | Her eyes widened a little , as though in surprise , then she nodded , glancing aside to the table and indicating the misshapen light with a hand that shook slightly . |
| 7 | Indeed at times it appears that she thinks that this liberation progresses from age to age ( though in correspondence she tells me that she thinks that the conclusion to history may well be that we annihilate ourselves ) . |
| 8 | He is always well-dressed , usually in smart suits and casual shirts , though in deference to the Jewish tradition which he discreetly adorns , he rarely wears a tie . |
| 9 | These two areas of convergence also direct us to the main area of divergence and the reason why , though in actuality inextricably related , the psychic and the cultural return of homosexuality still need to be distinguished . |
| 10 | ‘ They felt they had abandoned their children — even though in actuality they did n't . |
| 11 | It all seemed a thousand miles from the nearest town , though in actuality it might be only five or six . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've never known him do anything vicious , though in drink he sometimes talks big . |
| 13 | Curiously , his lowest mark was in English Literature ( a mere 57 per cent ) , though in Composition he achieved 69 per cent . |
| 14 | In the secondary modern schools , though in principle it was pursued as a primary goal , as it was in the few technical schools that survived , yet because of the increasing aspiration within the schools themselves that their pupils should be seen to do as well as grammar school pupils , the practical gradually came to be despised there as well . |
| 15 | The functions of the organisation should therefore be kept in mind in data analysis , even though in principle data analysis should attempt to look at the organisation independent of any processes . |
| 16 | Or the nineteen thirties book is like one of the things that really inspired me because it showed me that you can do type that looks as though , I mean it can be composed as though in metal and not be boring — can not be , manufactured , you know hum drum , by varying the weights and by massing it , and also one of the things they do , that you see in those books that you did n't see in printing , was this size of type . |
| 17 | James Boswell in the eighteenth century was generally impotent the first time he slept with women of his own class , though in sex with lower-class girls he could easily prove his manhood . |
| 18 | Homosexual clergy also need appropriate pastoral support , even though in evidence to us they said that they often prefer to work in Urban Priority Areas because of the greater degree of acceptance and diversity of life-styles . |
| 19 | Swod paused for a moment , as though in doubt . |
| 20 | Much the same takes place , though in mirror-image , in the south Pacific . |
| 21 | French expert Michael Odent claimed dads present at the birth — like rock star Rod Stewart , actor Michael Caine and Prince Charles — often gasp and groan as though in agony . |
| 22 | On the riverbank a small army of frogs croaked a hoarse descant to the incessant , high-pitched whine of unseen cicadas and from somewhere far off a bird screamed intermittently as though in agony . |
| 23 | One sees more of the bowl and stem of the Picasso Compotier , for instance , than one would in normal vision if one assumed the same high viewpoint when looking at the top of it ; and the gourd behind is painted as though in silhouette or directly at eye level . |
| 24 | The little girl persuaded her mother to share some of her memories of her dancing life , though in secret from Sam : and it was not long before Marjorie inevitably developed an ambition to become a Tiller Girl herself . |
| 25 | It is unmistakable , though in case of doubt two of the stars in the W of Cassiopeia can be used as guides . |
| 26 | As though in response to her thoughts the two-way radio in Vasili 's lap crackled into life . |
| 27 | It is sometimes said , as though in defence of this double standard , that spiders and caddises achieve their feats of architecture by ‘ instinct ’ . |
| 28 | Mann , though in possession of an official permit to hold meetings on trade unionism in Hamburg , was nevertheless put on a boat back to England ; on returning six weeks later , he was again expelled and various activists served short periods in prison . |
| 29 | The job is essentially a form of policing , though in keeping with a compliance system of enforcement , tasks such as surveillance and prevention are emphasized . |
| 30 | In contrast , paranoid schizophrenics are often of high , sometimes very high , intelligence : their difficulty , as the name implies , is the development of unshakeable persecutory delusions , though in other respects their personality and intellectual functioning are usually well-preserved . |