Example sentences of "though [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly it sapped at the roots of the kind of justice which had been dependent on the judgement of God ; ordeal — in any case a last resort — grew rare ; though trial by battle continued as a privilege of the military classes ( in some places till the end of the middle ages ) , it too became somewhat of a curiosity . |
| 2 | Though addition of Depardieu to ingredients would certainly improve any film , or indeed trifle . |
| 3 | They are fine-boned , short-legged , deep in the body and with fine , short horns curving inwards and slightly upwards at the tips in most cases , though direction of growth is variable . |
| 4 | Such attitudes are hard to a shift even though discrimination in housing is illegal under the race relations legislation . |
| 5 | Though management in hospital of such patients before transplantation is undoubtedly labour intensive and expensive , many such patients return to normal working life . |
| 6 | Though process of care measures may be an imperfect guide to the standard of patient care because of differences in the knowledge and skills of health carers in their different settings , we believe that our results are a very considerable improvement on those of previous British studies . |
| 7 | That is its sole function as prescribed by the Statutes , though membership of Convocation also carries with it certain privileges , such as use of the University Library . |
| 8 | BRITISH riders made a highly satisfying start to the Volvo World Cup Final in the warm-up competitions , though pride of place went to an expatriate , Lesley McNaught-Mandli , who now lives in and rides for Switzerland . |
| 9 | Though conflict of interest situations are diverse in form , they can , however , be distinguished from other types of market place misconduct such as bribery , embezzlement , fraud etc . |
| 10 | Some 73% of the sample claimed to have middle or senior management capable of using both English and German , though knowledge of French was limited to some 24% . |
| 11 | Premature though speculation of divorce may be — both Microsoft and IBM are quick to pledge their commitment to each other — even minor flaws in their domestic harmony will be closely watched . |
| 12 | Science and technology still accounted for the largest group of students , though recruitment for technology was encountering difficulties in Britain generally . |
| 13 | But even though week after week the jokes were the same , we always laughed . |
| 14 | In terms of company performance , use of foreign languages was vital to survival — though frequency of use depended on company-type and the position of the language user . |
| 15 | The Wolf-Man thought he would n't have got far in that dismal profession , though success in economics , as in psychoanalysis , can be difficult to define . |
| 16 | ‘ We need a training officer , though size of authority probably does not justify ’ … |
| 17 | ‘ Need a training officer , though size of authority probably does not justify — perhaps what should be done — though it won ‘ t be — is that a library school or SLA should employ somebody to look after staff development ’ . |
| 18 | We might add that , though property from land or , more commonly , from urban real-estate , remained an important source of bourgeois income , especially among the middle and lower bourgeoisie in areas of lagging industrialisation , it was already diminishing somewhat in importance . |
| 19 | Suggestions have been made too that WEN and TV 's World In Action were somehow mistaken in their studies or misinterpreted their test results , even though World In Action 's tests were undertaken by RECHEM , researchers who have carried out tests for the industry itself . |
| 20 | But even though justification by hindsight is easier than discovery , some people are still not rationally able to see the truth of the Gospels for themselves ; even though the Bible does point the way to moral knowledge , most people ‘ can not know , and therefore they must believe ’ . |
| 21 | Bemoaning the difficulty is no solution , even though lack of attendance will be to the inconvenience of both parties . |
| 22 | An ambitious Statute of National Education was promulgated in 1786 , though lack of money and trained teachers meant that when the empress died in 1796 there were still only 62,000 pupils in all the state schools in Russia — a very small number in terms of a population of thirty million . |
| 23 | Marx 's and Engels 's materialism is thus not the denial of the importance of ideas , concepts , and values for people , like the materialism of Feuerbach , but an assertion that ideas ultimately have a material origin in the real conditions of existence , a history which consists in a complicated interplay and conflict of different factors , some directly material , some mental ( though material in origin ) . |
| 24 | In terms of local authorities as suppliers of courses , use made of central training units is wide : only 22 authorities did not say that they used their central training department for some courses , though extent of use ( and availability of courses on offer ) varied widely , from : |
| 25 | Even though Christmas in hospital was a fun-filled day , no one could have had better news than Sarah Collyer . |