Example sentences of "though [pron] [is] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of all the women I know , she is by far the most successful with men , even though she is n't the best-looking . |
| 2 | SCHOOL bosses have barred tragic cancer victim Lucy Roberts from the school all her friends will attend — even though she is already a pupil in its nursery . |
| 3 | The years have been kind to Irene , though she 's still a lot more tired and worn than even the roughest of our nurses . |
| 4 | and they 're , the cupboard is far back enough for me to be able to get to the top , even though there 's only a doorway there |
| 5 | The company employs 240 people , mostly at factories in Wick and Perth , though there is also an operation in Oban . |
| 6 | These people here are very over-careful you know , they just like to cover every eventuality so they asked us all to ring our families even though there is n't a thing wrong … . ’ |
| 7 | Each internal street has been repaved , with speed bumps installed at 40 metre intervals or paviours arranged to look like bumps even though there is actually no bump at all ( Figure 4.16 ) . |
| 8 | The next message would spill over into the financial pages , though there is still a bit of theology — verses 4 to 8 . |
| 9 | It is true that the cost to the Exchequer is below average because no benefits are paid ( though there is still a loss of potential taxation ) , but the unemployed may suffer from lack of income , boredom and depression in just the same way as the counted unemployed ; furthermore , since they are capable and available for work , they represent a loss of potential output . |
| 10 | Thousands of years of experience have proved that this is what the wild elephants do — usually — though there is always a chance that it may be fatally different . |
| 11 | Though there is always the danger of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing , some time and money on training your secretaries in basic personal injury principles will be well spent . |
| 12 | The major class of adjectives which fall under this heading is again that of the associatives discussed in Chapter 2 , and as we have already noted these do not appear postnominally ( thus we also have a positive answer to the third question , though there is quite a lot more to add , see Section 3.10 ) : ( 38 ) Two scientists nuclear have joined the staff a hatmaker royal lives in our village ( The Hatmaker Royal , if one existed , would of course , like the Princess Royal , be the holder of an office which has a name calqued on the French once spoken by the English aristocracy , and not one based on the patterns of current English . ) |
| 13 | Freud 's thought is , at this point , at the very general level of the human species ' evolutionary development , and it has been left undeveloped by analysts who have been preoccupied with individuals , even though there is only the hope of some alleviation of their troubles , given Freud 's own analysis of civilization . |
| 14 | There is virtually no evidence to associate UFOs ( whatever they are ) with leys , though there is now a basis of evidence to suggest that stone circles at least , may be associated with geological locations that have a high incidence of geophysically-produced luminous atmospheric phenomena . |
| 15 | For example , it steadfastly refuses to ban lead in petrol even though there is now no scientist of repute willing to say that leaded petrol is , on balance , blameless and even though opinion polls have shown a massive public consensus against lead in petrol . |
| 16 | Though it 's not the kind of thing should be second nature to a kid . |
| 17 | Even though it 's just a car . |
| 18 | We 'll have we 'll we 'll have a very short tiny tiny little look at it even though it 's almost a holiday , right . |
| 19 | ‘ True , though it 's only a yard with a three-room building , so as soon as possible we shall sell up and move to something bigger . ’ |
| 20 | The commonality with its larger cousins and ability to take a full IFR panel makes it attractive as a training aircraft , though it 's quite a price . |
| 21 | Though it is dead the minute it leaves the scalp , your hair has a lot to put up with . |
| 22 | Zapp wants the subject to be organized , systematic , objective , in a word — though it is not a word he uses — scientific . |
| 23 | These panels are likely to suffer from what has been called ‘ duty ’ listening or viewing in which a person feels he or she ought to , say , watch a television programme because there is a questionnaire for it , even though it is not a programme that person would ordinarily view at all . |
| 24 | This does not mean that democracy is conceived only as the political form assumed by the rule of the bourgeoisie , even though it is historically an achievement of the bourgeoisie , a real advance upon the preceding forms of government and a ‘ progressive ’ feature of capitalism . |
| 25 | For ‘ Scheibenbuck ’ I have not a clue , though it is probably the name of the vintner . |
| 26 | He says he remembers watering his horse , and even though it is only a trough , it 's important to the town . |
| 27 | Since Karajan had a love-hate relationship with the camera , loathing its intrusions into music-making in the concert hall and uneasy with formal portraits , Steiner 's observations have to be seen in their context , though it is undoubtedly the case that there was a quality of coolness and detachment about Karajan that shaped some of his music-making and made him , among other things , so formidable an interpreter of Sibelius and late Mahler . |
| 28 | Later the Danish astronomer J. L. E. Dreyer compiled a more extensive catalogue , still known as the NGC or New General Catalogue even though it is now a century old . |
| 29 | More people speak Chinese than any other language — though it is really a collection of eight different languages . |
| 30 | If a program is licensed by a publisher , the program author could be liable in negligence even though he is not a party to the licence agreement . |