Example sentences of "though [pron] [vb mod] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though no-one can deny that Sybase 's recent figures are fabulous , Informix is doing well , too , and Oracle is still several times as large . |
| 2 | Erm so anyway the fact that it did happen obviously means that something 's wrong even though I 'll argue that it did n't seem as bad as he was presenting . |
| 3 | ‘ Though I may say that I shall be getting twenty-five guineas next Thursday for doing nothing but sit around in a television studio for half-an-hour , instead of beating my brains out all week-end to write a script for the BBC Overseas Service and getting ten guineas for it . ’ |
| 4 | The time for your vow is now ; though I may add that your family will be notified . |
| 5 | ‘ My reasons for so soon destroying my drawings were these ; though I dare say that they do n't appear so rational to any one but myself : I was obliged to limit the work — in order to get more subscribers — & to erase the drawings — because the expense is considerable for keeping them on , & I have pretty great difficulty in paying my monthly charges , — for to pay colourer & printer monthly I am obstinately pre-possessed — since I had rather be at the bottom of the River Thames — than be one week in debt — be it never so small . |
| 6 | Though I will admit that I find London disconcerting these days . |
| 7 | But I 'm not sure that I 'd be the best person to judge whether I turned to writing by way of compensation or not , though I can see that a serious death like that would lead to a world that was whole being broken . |
| 8 | Though I can see that for others it 's toy ducks in the bath . ’ |
| 9 | Though I could see that the sun still lit the highest canopy , on the jungle floor it was already too late . |
| 10 | There is more to these pieces than just a virtuosic exterior , though I should add that they are perhaps a great deal more amusing to perform than to listen to ‘ en bloc ’ . |
| 11 | Though I must emphasize that I have had little to do with the business . |
| 12 | Training in the choir gave me a fine knowledge of the Psalms , though I must say that none of us choir boys looked forward to the fifteenth evening of the month when the set psalm had no less than seventy-three verses . |
| 13 | " Always glad to see you , of course , though I must say that I 'd hoped to go off duty without any more trouble . |
| 14 | Nellie was convinced it would pass , even though she could feel that both children had high temperatures . |
| 15 | This is a private arrangement between you and the parents , though you may find that childminders in your area have agreed a uniform rate . |
| 16 | This will perhaps help your younger performers to be less self-conscious , though you may find that the appearance of a tripod induces a fit of the giggles in the cast . |
| 17 | Surprisingly , this is true of both the classical and modern play , though you might expect that the obscurities and difficulties of words and expression would prove more of a stumbling block in , say , Shakespeare or Ben Jonson . |
| 18 | As for reporting to Daddy , you go right ahead , though you might find that what he has to say is n't much to your liking . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't think it is theatre , and I also think that potentially it 's extremely destructive to the individuals involved , though you can argue that it 's their choice . |
| 20 | It still remains difficult to explain the Gingin Chalk of faraway Australia , though one might guess that this is part of the same phenomenon that produced the almost world-wide " Cenomanian transgression " . |
| 21 | Tolkien tried the experiment in Treebeard 's farewell , and maybe he failed ; though one might say that the image behind the phrase works well for Fangorn , whose sense of ultimate loss naturally centres on felled trees and barren ground . |
| 22 | In The Prelude ( though one could argue that Wordsworth is writing after meeting Coleridge ) , he tells us that he felt these emotions as early |
| 23 | Neither do we find any reference to the thousands of Canadians who served with the US Army in Vietnam , though one must assume that at least some sources for this subject have been published . |
| 24 | Even though we may think that in Britain we have had more than our share of industrial decay and change , the catalogue of proud names that were in the vanguard of German or American industrial might at the turn of the last century is very different from the list of those who are in front today . |
| 25 | Not only have food costs been above average , but the labour turnover has been relatively high , which is a little odd since Fred is generally considered to be genial and well liked ( though we must add that we have found no evidence that this is true as far as his staff are concerned ) . |
| 26 | Such a target can in principle help in controlling the industry 's activities , though we should recall that if managers were social welfare maximizing , the constraint would be superfluous . |
| 27 | Even though they may protest that they are perfectly capable of driving , they wo n't be . |
| 28 | At the very least the results of the experiment reported in this paper remind us that not all economic agents optimize all the time , though it would appear that the simpler the problem being tackled and the more experience people have of it , the nearer to the optimal they are likely to be . |
| 29 | Mr Major therefore made a stab at the second — though it might seem that after 11 years in office , Mrs Thatcher 's radical government should have had all the time it needed for tax reform . |
| 30 | 8. ‘ … are the only organizations that have been able to do what they do at all , even though it might seem that what they do is not that difficult or mysterious a thing ’ . |