Example sentences of "though it [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Information retrieval should be recognized as a skill within its own right , though it forms an integral part of wider study skills . |
| 2 | The flood tide , though it had no real terrors for Woodie , caused him to fret impatiently , because Rochester , in his opinion , had beautiful lines below water , and these would not now be visible again for twelve hours . |
| 3 | The mine had its tunnel driven into the side of a steep bank , making the hill look as though it had a toothless mouth . |
| 4 | Many years ago I used to write for a magazine called ‘ Electronics and Computing Monthly ’ which was killed , even though it had a good circulation . |
| 5 | However , this is the party that goes on about unemployment as though it had a good record on unemployment . |
| 6 | Of all the uniformed organizations , the Boys ' Life Brigade founded in Nottingham by the Revd John Brown Paton , was the most distinctive in so far as it appeared to be non-military , committed as it was to the principles of life-saving , even though it had a BB-style uniform and a military command structure . |
| 7 | These five species constitute what may be called the typical owl pattern , and even though it encompasses a fair degree of variability it is consistent enough for departures from it to be instantly recognizable . |
| 8 | Some companies , such as retail group Kingfisher , refuse to join , even though it meets the 0.5 per cent target . |
| 9 | The conceptual content required in this case to describe the institution , though it involves a great deal of cultural elaboration , does not display the same kind of break between the pre-cultural and the cultural as is found in the incest case ; and the biological pattern of explanation could recognizably run through such ideas as human beings finding certain institutions ‘ natural ’ , which does not require any appeal to a rational collective agency to understand the basic biological idea , as is damagingly the case with the incest example . |
| 10 | Though it involves a few minutes ' paperwork , a worthwhile exercise is to jot down your own personal list of pros and cons , under the headings : ‘ spending now ’ and ‘ spending later ’ . |
| 11 | The first building so adorned which we know of is the Siphnian treasury , which is Ionic in character though it lacks the typical capitals , since instead of columns in the porch it had two Caryatids : supports in the form of girls , here canonical korai of immense elaboration . |
| 12 | And for a really considered exposition of it we can turn to Charles Temple 's Native Races and their Rulers ( 1918 ) , a remarkable work which , though it bears the unmistakable stamp of a mind operating obsessively in isolation , pursuing ideas by their internal logic rather than by the rules of external evidence , can yet be assumed to possess a representative character . |
| 13 | There was nothing valuable in it , though it seemed a great deal in the eyes of these people . ’ |
| 14 | It was very good — even though it left a nasty taste in my mouth , the same sort of shudder I felt when I first read The Turn of the Screw . |
| 15 | Such spiral waves could be induced by injecting the non-metabolizable analogue InsPS 3 ( ref. 70 ) , whereas the injection of calcium had no effect even though it caused a localized elevation of calcium . |
| 16 | Out from behind a petrol pump appeared a figure that was female , though it took a few seconds to realise it . |
| 17 | While London did not consult the Dominions much on financial matters ( though it made a public ploy of doing so ) it lacked the political will or administrative means to make the rigorous control of dollar imports practised in the UK effective in those countries . |
| 18 | However , the UK failed in its attempt to head off the EC Commission , even though it made a last-minute offer to bring forward compliance of five water supplies contaminated with nitrate , from 1995 to 1991–4 , ‘ a shift , ’ according to ENDS , ‘ which , until then , the UK had insisted would be impractical . ’ |
| 19 | Though it uses a modified self adjusting back , this is not obvious . |
| 20 | He was also partly , though not wholly , responsible for the ‘ non-intervention ’ policy which Britain and France pursued with regard to the Spanish Civil War , even though it was being blatantly ignored by Germany , Italy and Russia , and though it denied a legitimate Republican government the right of access to the world market for arms with which to defend itself . |
| 21 | Although the soya protein content was listed in the ingredients it was not included in the name of the products , even though it formed a substantial proportion . |
| 22 | Even though it hopes a third of this will be raised through sponsorship , the school is aware that some parents will still not be able to meet the cost . |
| 23 | He said that the federation does not predict that any sector of engineering will increase employment next year , though it forecasts the civil aerospace industry will be least badly affected because of a backlog of orders and its high level of exports . |
| 24 | There is also the possibility of practice expressing the free will of the individual even though it has no other form of expression than the appearances available to consciousness . |
| 25 | As with The Death of Nelson , The Gamblers , though it has no specific source , is a pastiche on Italian Renaissance art . |
| 26 | Chelsea College , which is under strong pressure to merge with one of the larger colleges , does not appear in the list , even though it has a strong electronics department . |
| 27 | The Blandford fly is the most famous British representative , which though it has a nasty bite , does n't harbour any nasty parasites . |
| 28 | One of the best known of all British sociological studies , Young and Willmott 's Family and Kinship in East London ( 1957 ) , could be said to be a community study , though it has a specific focus and is based mainly , though not entirely , on data collected through a social survey . |
| 29 | The Pentium , explained Ian Pearson , director of Inmos 's Transputer Business Unit , is 30% bigger though it has the same number of transistors . |
| 30 | The Pentium , explained Ian Pearson , director of Inmos 's Transputer Business Unit , is 30% bigger though it has the same number of transistors . |