Example sentences of "though by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though by chap . |
| 2 | The meeting at the Castle Street house was decisive in the lives of both Poole and Coleridge , and was also , though by accident , instantly notorious in the little world of Stowey . |
| 3 | Often as they talked he kept his gaze on her face , looking into her eyes , and as she stood with her hands on the handlebars of her bicycle his hand often covered hers as though by accident . |
| 4 | In January 1326 Reynolds recorded that he had not convened a council of prelates and clergy since 1323 because the king had expressed his wish that none should meet without his consent , even though by canon law provincial synods should take place annually . |
| 5 | Saga have n't been able to do much with the abrasive 1954 recording quality , though by comparison with the LP some of the aural grit has disappeared . |
| 6 | Seconds later they were engulfed in a seething torrent of water that appeared as though by magic . |
| 7 | As though by magic virtually every chador cloak and hejab headdress had disappeared , the women having changed into smart dresses and tailored suits in the privacy of the toilets . |
| 8 | No storm mist shrouding the slopes , no rain , no lightning stabbing , no thunder rumbling , the clouds all swept away as though by magic , the sky blue , the mountains looking quite serene now , almost kindly in the late afternoon light . |
| 9 | The fatigue of the long traumatic night fell away from him , as though by magic . |
| 10 | Moonlight bathed her , as though by design . |
| 11 | The weapon in Mr Cottle 's hand had become a long , loosely coiled spring , lit from within as though by moonlight . |
| 12 | In fact , the first pope elected after the creation of the Vatican City was its citizen , though by virtue of office rather than birth . |
| 13 | Though by nature we Gentiles are ‘ without Christ , aliens from the commonwealth of Israel , strangers from the covenant of promise , having no hope and without God in the world ’ , the Holy Spirit has given us access , through Christ 's self-sacrifice for us ( Eph. 2:12–18 ) . |
| 14 | This effect can vitiate scientific observation , as when seventeenth century experimenters , familiar with the concepts of post-Galilean mechanics but not of electrostatic attraction and repulsion , regularly reported observing chaff falling as though by gravitation , or mechanically rebounding from the electrified bodies which attracted them . |