Example sentences of "though it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones 's book remained untouched on the shelves of Northumbria 's modest library in its first two years , even though it had good reviews ; and the influence of his research has been all but negligible . |
| 2 | Reading a rightwing rather than a left-wing paper improved images of Thatcher and the Conservative Party , and damaged images of Kinnock and the Labour Party , though it had little or no influence on images of the Alliance and its leaders . |
| 3 | Though it had little to differentiate itself from its colleagues , apart from double ring-grips at both head and foot , its construction was more elaborate than the standard framed and panelled model — thus it was more expensive and carried a certain snob value . |
| 4 | The BF on the other hand was named after the new Italian experiment in 1923 , even though it had little direct knowledge of the aims and ideas of Mussolini . |
| 5 | The Comédie Française did not impress her either , for it seemed to her a collection of posturing gabbling shadows , mocking at plays that she had studied in tranquillity and silence : the celebrated mirrors of Versailles were all spotty , Notre-Dame looked at her as though it had two spires missing from on top , and the famous intellectual cafés were full of old men and tourists . |
| 6 | Sir Robert Cecil , then Governor of the society , was still not satisfied and he cancelled the current lease at Christmas 1597 , even though it had one and a half years to run . |
| 7 | The new machinery , though it had considerable defects , proved more efficient and much more flexible than the old . |
| 8 | Further , British Rail , for example , would be distinguished from a Type B non-profit , even though it receives substantial capital and revenue grants from the Government . |
| 9 | We can make fear choices , which lead us to cling to the past — ‘ I hate my job , but I wo n't find anything better , so I 'd better stick to it ’ , ‘ I always eat hamburger and chips on Thursdays ’ , ‘ I 'd like to know Chris better , but I 'm sure s/he wo n't be interested in me ’ — or growth choices , in which we reach for the future — ‘ I hate my job , so I 'll start applying for others , even though it feels scary ’ , ‘ Maybe I 'll try spaghetti bolognese tonight ’ , ‘ What have I got to lose ? |
| 10 | The basic purpose of this filter is to smooth out the chopped waveform appearing from the switch and so provide a steady output voltage across a load resistance R L , though it does this job in an unconventional way . |
| 11 | Because the glass in a greenhouse traps the sun 's energy ( though it does this mainly by inhibiting convection , thereby stopping warm air rising and escaping ) , this process has come to be known as the ‘ greenhouse effect ’ . |
| 12 | She had known as soon as they had arrived at the lodge that her heart had made the right decision , even though it felt irresponsible and utterly childish to be spending a summer like this , at her age , and after all the work she had done to put the initials MD after her name . |
| 13 | The association of water conservation measures with improved administrative control was apparent from the earliest days of Masai administration , and though it became fashionable in later years to talk about ‘ anchoring ’ the Masai for development purposes , administrative convenience was always a powerful interest : ‘ the Masai have , in my view , two outstanding needs ’ , wrote the Provincial Commissioner of the Northern Province of Tanganyika in 1950 — ‘ water and discipline ’ . |
| 14 | Gordon Smith , Caledonian 's sales director — the company is increasing its sponsorship though it remains coy on an amount — said it viewed the association with Currie as long term . |
| 15 | Since personality arises out of social interaction its structure is not reducible to organic structure even though it remains dependent upon the whole psychoendocrine and neural system of a human being . |
| 16 | The present situation , therefore , even though it allows some fudging of extraordinary items , must be far from perfect from Mr Damant 's point of view . |
| 17 | The pH of a soil , though it sounds mysterious and scientific , is simply the name for the scale which determines the quantities of chemical particles ( hydrogen ions ) contained in the soil solution , more or less of which make the soil acid or alkaline . |
| 18 | Above : The Scissortail is very popular even though it lacks any bright colouring . |
| 19 | Issi Abdul , six , clutches tightly onto his feeding bowl as though it contained liquid gold . |
| 20 | This is the only fault which I can find in his character though it bears little importance as it takes nothing away from the readers ' love of him and may even increase it due to his helplessness . |
| 21 | In fact , to refuse a parent 's request would not be a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights , even though it requires such convictions to be upheld . |
| 22 | Carbon fibre tubes have cured much of this ; but the fourth bridle line is used on larger sport kites even though it requires accurate adjustment to balance with the other lines . |
| 23 | It will be observed that this definition , though it lays considerable and perhaps disproportionate stress on the contractual nature of the shareholder 's rights , also emphasises the fact that he has an interest in the company . |
| 24 | And though it seemed ridiculous to worry about a case like this , there was no doubt the thing had begun to prey on my mind . |
| 25 | At first I took them for Maria 's , though it seemed strange that she should be going down to the beach at that time . |
| 26 | The Royal Family was a constant in a fast-changing world though it seemed ready to change with the times . |
| 27 | That 's where the fuel tanks are located and though it seemed likely that the partial tearing away of the wing had also ruptured the fuel lines and spilled the fuel , there was no way of being sure and no one , again as far as I know , has ever come up against the problem of what happens when an oxyacetylene jet meets a fuel tank under water . |
| 28 | Seaward there was nothing but a pearly opalescence which , though it seemed likely to vanish at any moment , effectively blocked out sea and sky . |
| 29 | In any event , and this is the real answer , Bismarck had not yet given up hope of bringing his scheme to a successful conclusion and even though it seemed difficult to envisage just how this could be done , he waited for his moment . |
| 30 | The budget did cut the building programme for roads and motorways , though it left untouched current agreed plans . |