Example sentences of "though [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This again , though enjoying some success , could not be rated foolproof . |
| 2 | With a careful movement , as though handling some instrument of rare delicacy , the woman drew a slim black dagger from her belt and stabbed downward . |
| 3 | After 1945 democratic socialist parties in a number of West European countries were able , for the first time , to form governments or to become major partners in coalition governments , and thus impart a new direction to economic and social policy making ( and this also happened to some extent in other regions of the world , though encountering greater difficulties ) . |
| 4 | As though to counteract any criticism I have been shown a colour photograph of the prototype from which this livery was created . |
| 5 | It is not possible though to find similar priorities for long-term survival where small firms are concerned . |
| 6 | Though wounded seventeen times , he was one of the very few aces to survive the war . |
| 7 | It is a structure essentially tribal in Pakistan , caste-based in India , which , though distorted several times over by a changing economy , still retains some of its concepts ( including that of the position of women ) in their original form . |
| 8 | The usual hard core of some 22 per cent insisted that Britain and the United States should " always stick together " , while another 52 per cent ( though favouring selective co-operation ) were anxious to protect British independence and freedom of choice . |
| 9 | As Valence obeyed , the paraplegic 's fingers clawed at the air , as though inscribing some complex , arcane pattern . |
| 10 | Don Warters was hedging his bets this time , though noting high spirits in the team . |
| 11 | The TUC , though deploring such activities , urged a return to the system operating in 1930 . |
| 12 | It materially extended the powers of local authorities by authorizing the making of schemes for any land , whether urban or rural , though requiring ministerial approval . |
| 13 | The option of letting children stay indoors during breaks could be considered though providing adequate supervision sometimes provides problems . |
| 14 | Mr Heath , though lacking political influence , has remained a powerful defender of his own government 's record — which Mrs Thatcher and some colleagues scorned . |
| 15 | Divisional Conferences held in January and February 1932 , though recording greater support for disaffiliation , nevertheless gave a two to one vote in favour of staying inside the Labour Party . |
| 16 | De Glanville though spending some time here at Halling , was a much travelled man , rather I should say kept continuously on the run for these were most troubled times and towards the latter part of his life an interdict was placed on the country and it is recorded he was buried without a service . |
| 17 | Influence is to do with ‘ non-material ’ power and is not tied to positional power or title — though having this resource may offer greater opportunities for influence . |
| 18 | These fundamental axioms were refined , clarified and applied through a long series of debates and conflicts with the Liberal Theology in which he had been trained , and which he had earlier enthusiastically followed , with the claims of the Führer to be the chosen instrument of divine providence , and with colleagues , notably Emil Brunner ( 1889–1966 ) , Rudolf Bultmann ( 1884–1976 ) and Friedrich Gogarten ( 1887 — 1967 ) , whose approaches , though having some affinities with his own , he felt in the end to be in varying degrees unsatisfactory . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said and held her sheepskin in both hands as though willing some part of the past to remain in the present . |
| 20 | Elizabeth Wolstenholme-Elmy , for example , was associated with the suffrage movement , Butler 's campaign against the CD Acts , and the campaign for the Married Women 's Property Acts , while Millicent Fawcett , though withholding public support for Butler because she feared it would bring the suffrage movement into disrepute , in fact wholeheartedly approved of her work . |
| 21 | C … pressed him though to get more client coupons . |
| 22 | As though sensing some abatement of my ferocity , she said in a natural tone , ‘ I did not mean to startle you . ’ |
| 23 | An unusual use of an SDO was the Vauxhall Cross proposal which though receiving architectural acclaim , was fiercely opposed by the local authority . |
| 24 | Toddlers though lived next door . |