Example sentences of "though [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shape of a picture may have been altered , and the museum , though not a stray visitor , will know the fact . |
| 2 | A classic example of exposition , though not uncontroversial , is E. H. Gombrich 's Art of Illusion . |
| 3 | Patrick is far from anti-homosexual , though not entirely patient with the relevant practices and pretensions . |
| 4 | They are therefore predominantly sectarian in political religious form , and attempts to modify this sectarian structure are at the moment opposed mainly , though not exclusively , by the Irish Roman catholic clergy . |
| 5 | A top dressing of grit , though not essential , will show them off and avoid soil splashes on their delicate petals . |
| 6 | While for those thrust into a position of ‘ ritual liminality ’ there is the possibility of becoming ‘ men apart ’ , of standing aside and though not necessarily following political alternatives posed by any counter-culture , undertaking the hero 's journey merely by seeking to comment on the social condition they now see with new eyes . |
| 7 | He had inherited his family 's respect for learning , and though not a savant himself , he nevertheless brought his children up with a healthy respect for books and the independence they instil . |
| 8 | Dr Jessie Scriver made a speech stating that the economies were affecting the health of the mothers , though not that of the children as yet . |
| 9 | It finds fuller expression in The Favourite Game in which he describes ‘ the divine idiot ’ — though not to his satisfaction , as we shall see . ) |
| 10 | Though not in poetry , whose influence now chiefly came from America and Canada . |
| 11 | Leonard believed that they interconnected more than he is given credit for ; he chose to speak of that one within , though not absolutely . |
| 12 | The ensemble should , of course , not be too sexy , but polite , though not conciliatory — nothing that could suggest an inclination to join his mother in the kitchen to whip up a batch of fairy cakes . |
| 13 | Her efforts were , therefore , a success , though not , she had to admit , of the kind promised by the dating agency . |
| 14 | The dog is long since gone , though not , so far as I know , as a result of its encounter with the toad . |
| 15 | I think the argument is that if we call the nature of the experience ‘ R ’ , and if we concede the materialist claim that R is a brain state , then in knowing the brain state the blind scientist knows R , though not what R is like . |
| 16 | This , I would argue , though not all would agree , may tell us something interesting about the way the brain compartmentalizes different aspects of visual processing and it may tell us that subjects are more conservative about admitting to seeing a very degraded image than about trying to move their eyes to it , but it sheds little light on the actual experiences the patients are having when we show them a light . |
| 17 | The fear , though not new , was greater than I remembered , and stronger than it need have been . |
| 18 | Though not an out-and-out cheapskate , he was thought the kind of man who would try to squeeze a shilling into a pound by whatever means . |
| 19 | Most timber colours are of somewhat muted hues and generally very subtle ( though not often dull ) , but can vary enormously from one another in tone value . |
| 20 | The skew chisel is well known , and though not manufactured in recent times , the skew gouge has been utilised as a modification . |
| 21 | The conventional design , though not as fluent is more versatile . |
| 22 | Modular catering ( though not necessarily Cuisine 2000 ) is expanding on to the Liverpool Street-Norwich run ( using former West Coast vehicles ) , the East Coast main line ( with Mk4 stock ) , and the Western Region , when the ex-ECML cars can be cascaded in 1991 . |
| 23 | Though not so revolutionary as to require years of testing and modification ( and run the risk of ultimate rejection as in the case of the Advanced Passenger Train ) . |
| 24 | ‘ What a strange demand ! ’ says Lebyadkin with an effrontery beyond the man we have been given , though not of course beyond old Karamazov . |
| 25 | ‘ Our club ’ presumably overlaps while being smaller than ‘ the best circles ’ of this society , whereas the ‘ they ’ of ‘ the whole town ’ is sometimes , but only sometimes , the ‘ we ’ of ‘ our town ’ ; and ‘ our group ’ which springs out of ‘ my ’ special relationship with Stepan Verkhovensky and which gathers round Mrs Stavrogin , Nicholas 's mother and Stepan 's patroness , is different again and again overlapping ; and the ‘ all ’ buried inside the phrase ‘ our ‘ old man ’ — as we all used to call Stepan Trofimovich among ourselves ’ is probably though not certainly synonymous with this ‘ group ’ ; while Dostoevsky delights in sly collective evocations like ‘ civic grief ’ and in parcellings-out like ‘ the poorest expectant mothers of the town ’ , and in fouling the whole snobbish provincial nest with such carefully calculated absurdities as ‘ almost the whole town , that is of course the entire top stratum of our society ’ . |
| 26 | Stepan Verkhovensky is prissy , frenchified , very feminine though not at all homosexual . |
| 27 | However , this seems to be a red herring , since the standard Buck topology uses a pair of inductors ( though not coupled ) and a single transistor switch just as the Cuk topology does , but need no other energy coupling device . |
| 28 | Digital filter design is part of ILS 's product and though not as extensive in its filter design as some of the others , it is still impressive . |
| 29 | For reasons which are much more pragmatic than ideological , I have come to think that a separation of Cultural Studies from English , though not easy , would be the least damaging way forward for both parties . |
| 30 | Colonel Blimp today is likely to be a Roundhead colonel , in his professed sentiments a Leveller , though not of course in his practices . |