Example sentences of "though [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was never to equal her first novel , That Lass o' Lowrie 's ( 1877 ) , a robust account of a Lancashire mining community in which she had taken great care with background and dialect , though Through One Administration ( 1883 ) , a study of a failed marriage against a turbulent background of Washington political life , was noteworthy , and the much shorter The Making of a Marchioness ( 1901 ) is a indictment of Edwardian society . |
| 2 | The pay of a sailor in the French navy in 1789 was practically the same as it had been a century before , though during that period prices had almost doubled . |
| 3 | The playing throughout the evening was truly superb , every instrumentalist bowing and blowing and thumping as though for dear life . |
| 4 | At my first event in Fort Worth , I had held on to the few people I knew as though for dear life , terrified at the thought of being stranded in this great wilderness . |
| 5 | You may have read in the press what he said — though for some reason it was not reported in the RTV news coverage of the event . |
| 6 | Changing the law on mistake in rape could help to change these social attitudes , even though for some time to come defendants might find themselves charged with rape because of such ingrained attitudes towards women . |
| 7 | They were very good friends , which neither Daphne nor Cecilia could really understand , though for some time , especially before the advent of Brian , both mothers had hopes of their ‘ making a match of it ’ . |
| 8 | However , in the professional world , little plastic boxes are not the order of the day , even though for everyday tuning needs they are more than adequate . |
| 9 | In a separate experiment they actually monitored the eye fixations of subjects while watching the slide and found that in the arousal condition subjects fixated more often on central details , though for less time per fixation . |
| 10 | Pre-tax profit fell to £85.6million from £98.1million , though after lower tax and minority interests , reflecting the African withdrawal , earnings showed only a fractional decline . |
| 11 | Pre-tax profit fell to £85.6million from £98.1million , though after lower tax and minority interests , reflecting the African withdrawal , earnings showed only a fractional decline . |
| 12 | ‘ Though after last night … ’ his glance raked her face ‘ … maybe you 'd have done quite well out of the deal if you 'd bothered to follow through . ’ |
| 13 | Sociology had a major presence , though of variable quality and intellectual traditions , throughout the university sector before the Second World War . |
| 14 | Though of limited intellect , she responds with fanatical devotion to the Peerybingles ' kindness . |
| 15 | Three from the Cambridge crew and two from Oxford rowed for American Universities but , of these , the Justicz brothers , though of Czechoslovakian extraction , are British . |
| 16 | It is accomplished though of small importance , very much of its historical moment . |
| 17 | This reform , though of crucial importance in countering the current distortion in the job market towards part-time employment , does nothing to help eradicate the high marginal rates of tax faced by people leaving unemployment and gaining work , or of low-paid workers striving to gain real increases in their net take home pay . |
| 18 | ( Fees were also charged for local authority secondary schools , though of lower amount . ) |
| 19 | ( 3 ) Neither the sales information in general , nor the information about the prices in particular , though of some value to a competitor , could reasonably be regarded as plainly secret or sensitive . |
| 20 | This , coupled with the Polymorphine and her own apparently chameleonic talent — perhaps potentiated by the syn-skin , though of this aspect Jaq was truly unsure — enabled her to undergo a wilder , faster transformation than fellow Assassins : a radical transmutation of her body into , at least , Stealer semblance . |
| 21 | The novice company , though of full status . |
| 22 | Though of miniature format , portraits on coins and gems could be impressively characterised : witness the image of Gaius Antius Restio , Tribune of the People in 71 BC and portrayed on a coin of his descendant minted in 47 BC , or an unknown man whose authoritative portrait was brilliantly engraved in chalcedony . |
| 23 | These " bunches " were rich though of short duration . |
| 24 | Nepotism , though of widespread occurrence , is formally considered to be an offence against common morality . |
| 25 | The scheme was a perfectly serious one , though like many railway ventures at the time it was rather ambitious . |
| 26 | Though like all market-place democracy , you do have the feeling that what you 're actually seeing is an impressive piece of set-building , that the real action lies below the surface , in some place where entry is rather more restricted . |
| 27 | ‘ Though under constant shell and mortar fire , ’ as the official history recorded , ‘ the sappers blasted their way through critical roadblocks , and were also engaged in making roads passable for tracked vehicles . ’ |
| 28 | One can still find , though with increasing difficulty , those ancient meadows where , as in my childhood , buttercups form a glittering carpet of gold-enamelled flowers , bluebells , spotted orchids and Billy-buttons have their place in shady corners and butter-blobs and milkmaids pattern the ditch bank . |
| 29 | And as his fingers clasped hers , a strange sensation had shot through her , as though with that handshake he had branded her forever . |
| 30 | The campaign was fought on such issues as increased winter relief and unemployment benefit , though with implicit recognition of the ultimate necessity of revolution . |