Example sentences of "though at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Application should normally be made to the appropriate education authority for grant aid before 1 June of the year in which the student wishes to enter a course , even though at that time the student may not have been offered a place . |
| 2 | With the coming of civilisation and the beginning of this , the third of the Three Periods into which the reader is reminded the explanation of the Created God is divided , man was on the threshold of the era of his greatest testing , even though at that time he may not have been aware of it . |
| 3 | Adam was nineteen and in his first year at university , though at that time at home for the Easter break . |
| 4 | Papal actions , too , appeared to add further proof : after 1337 , except in 1362 and 1375 , popes no longer taxed the clergy for the benefit of the king in England , though at that time they were certainly enriching the French monarch by clerical taxes ; and while successive French kings readily obtained papal dispensations which enabled them to contract politically advantageous matches , Edward on two critical occasions — in the 1340s and 1360s — was denied such benefits . |
| 5 | As a consequence , this was one of the towns that prospered in the golden age of cross-Pyrenean trade in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , even though at that time there was no road to Luz from the north , only a mule track through the gorge . |
| 6 | Just before he reached it , I used the last two shots on my film , though at that distance I did n't think I 'd pick up much . |
| 7 | When state-supported secondary education was introduced in 1878 , a denominational system was officially set up , though at this time the system was only availed of by the few families who could afford to lose the labour of young teenagers . |
| 8 | ‘ The Poles , Mexicans and Brazilians are all treating it as their final Olympic trials and though at this moment there are no pacemakers , they 'll all be watching each other and it could be the most interesting race since it began in 1981 . ’ |
| 9 | Insurers reckon the cost of repairs will be at least £300m ( $172m ) , though at this stage nobody is really sure . |
| 10 | If he was lucky he 'd find a cab there , though at this time of night they were n't frequent . |
| 11 | Though at this point I paid little notice to them as he did not emphasise them . |
| 12 | The lengthy , complicated and interesting case of Richard of Anstey ( of some two generations before Innocent III 's time ) shows how it was already accepted that the Crown could have no jurisdiction over the solemn sacrament of marriage , though at this stage the canon law of marriage and what actually constituted a legal marriage was extremely fluid . |
| 13 | Britain was almost alone in systematically , though at this period still modestly , absorbing businessmen into the aristocracy — bankers and financiers rather than industrialists . |
| 14 | The Bank concludes that , despite the remarkable fall in the headline rate last month , the underlying level of inflation is still close to the top end of the target range of 1 per cent to 4 per cent , though at this stage of the cycle it should be below 2 per cent , and the cost pressures created by devaluation have still to feed fully into the economy . |
| 15 | Though at any given amount it looks as if it is n't going anywhere , it 's always on the move , lumbering from crisis to crisis . |
| 16 | A nervous tremor affected his lower lip and he looked as though at any moment he might burst into tears . |
| 17 | At the level he now was the breakers looked menacing , as though at any moment they might sweep in to engulf him . |
| 18 | A whispered ‘ Yes , ’ and he was back on the verandah , supporting himself on the rail , and bending over as though at any moment he might vomit . |
| 19 | He could not keep still and his eyes reddened as though at any moment he might burst into tears . |
| 20 | Generalist bees are usually faithful over short periods , one species of trigonid bee near M anaus for example visiting 33 species in 21 plant families in 1 year , though at any one time , over 60% of the individuals of the species had only one pollen type and over 23% had only two . |
| 21 | ‘ Why — because , though at any other time I could perhaps let my feelings have their head , this time , for a reason I simply was n't seeing then , I just knew that it could not be like that with you . ’ |
| 22 | Rufus was still lying asleep on the terrace , though at some point he must have awakened , for he was shaded from the sun by Hilbert 's old black umbrella which he had opened and propped there to shelter his head and face . |
| 23 | Hubert squinted as though at some object in the middle distance as he tried to recall . |
| 24 | Then , as though at some pre-arranged signal , both crabs wriggle free from their homes and exchange shells . |