Example sentences of "though [not/n't] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These perceptions were influenced in varying degrees , though not completely determined , by partisan loyalties . |
| 2 | OT , only half the length of these novels , is more sombre in tone , and elaborately , though not completely successfully , plotted . |
| 3 | When he had had a few drinks , though not otherwise , Peter talked about how he knew he ought to have the test to find out if he was HIV negative , as he hoped , as he desperately hoped , but he had not had it yet . |
| 4 | Throughout the Sixties various means were employed to give the cast time off , though not normally for longer than one week at a time . |
| 5 | Though not normally noted for their philanthropy , lawyers say they are standing up for the common man and woman by condemning the Scottish Office plans to change civil legal aid and to a lesser extent legal advice and assistance . |
| 6 | MIDDLESEX COUNTY CRICKET CLUB REVIEW 1991–92 — Another club lamenting a disappointing 1991 , though not financially . |
| 7 | When turned back , though not flat , they show that the horse is interested in what is behind him , usually checking that the escape route is clear ; so does a rolled-back eye which reveals the white of the eyeball . |
| 8 | He had filled out , too , with broad shoulders and strong though not overly muscular arms . |
| 9 | Of ascetic countenance ( though not particularly ascetic habits ) , of grave and rather formal demeanour , he habitually disarmed people whenever he unbent a little and let them in , as it were , to his superior private world . |
| 10 | On the far side they came to the Sierra de Quareca , hills which , though not particularly high , did give the party — many of them clad in heavy metal cuirasses and leg-armour — some relief from the steamy , insect-ridden heat of the lowlands . |
| 11 | The fisheries of the Suli islands between North Borneo and the Philippines , though not particularly rich in pearls , produced fine mother-of-pearl , a material keenly sought by the Chinese who used it for making inlays . |
| 12 | By not confirming the structure , the structure 's limits are revealed and the possibility of constructing the world differently , though not particularly heroically , arises . |
| 13 | As recurrence may appear many years after the operation , however , long — though not particularly frequent — follow up is required . |
| 14 | Though not strictly a member of the cabinet , Mr Ozawa has given the prime minister considerable support and has in effect run the government 's day-to-day business . |
| 15 | ‘ Streaky ’ patterns , though not strictly moon-shapes , have the same ‘ out of this world ’ effect and they are the easiest way to start . |
| 16 | The care or supervision of children , though not strictly speaking housework , is included because in practice it was impossible to make an adequate distinction between the two activities of housework and child-care . |
| 17 | Though not strictly competitive , the selection of schools inevitably involves comparisons according to a range of formal and informal criteria , and since funds have until recently always been less than sufficient to serve all deserving cases , an element of competition is inescapable . |
| 18 | Ethel May Nicholson , the woman Jack called ‘ Mud ’ , short for mother which she was n't , was a broad-shouldered woman , though not physically , who carried the family and occasionally her husband when he was too drunk to stand without support . |
| 19 | She did feel awkward , though not physically , but spiritually . |
| 20 | A flurry of complications ensues : Richard falls for the winsome Anna , though not even love can blind him to the realisation that her poetry is ‘ absolutely bloody awful ’ . |
| 21 | Professor Kelling used the term first for Carboniferous deposits on the Moroccan Meseta , but I have seen the same sort of thing in Jurassic carbonates on the Polish foreland and they have been described from many other horizons and areas , though not previously interpreted in this way . |
| 22 | A series of measures to encourage office relocation in order to provide alternative employment opportunities and economic stimulus did something to modify the pattern though not fundamentally to change it . |
| 23 | Though not expressly so stated as in the case of criminal appeals where there is a criminal legal aid order , it seems that a civil legal aid certificate will also cover advice on appeal . |
| 24 | The Court of Appeal is bound to refuse to follow a previous decision of its own which , even though not expressly overruled , can not in its opinion stand with a subsequent decision of the House of Lords . |
| 25 | Covenants , though not expressly stated in the lease , may be implied from the fact of a lease being entered into . |
| 26 | Several kinds of difference figure in contemporary cultural theory but two especially : sexual difference ( deriving usually though not invariably from psychoanalysis ) and cultural difference , with each of these complicated by a third kind of difference which construes meaning and identity in terms of difference or , more exactly , differential relations . |
| 27 | In 1980 a computer built at Bell Labs began to win regularly , though not invariably , against masters . |
| 28 | The chief Norman royal castles were built at the headquarters of shires , and in early days their castellans were often ( though not invariably ) the royal sheriffs . |
| 29 | In either case , though not invariably , editions are limited to modest , and sometimes very small , numbers . |
| 30 | In medicine , measurement and observation often lead to diagnosis and cure , though not invariably so . |