Example sentences of "though [det] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Holman 's exemplary notes suggest that Jenkins composed these works in his 20s or 30s , but the quality of the music seem to belie that generally accepted claim : it is difficult to imagine such depth of repose in so young a man — though that in turn gives the modern listener a clue as to why Jenkins was such a respected and well-loved figure in his day . |
| 2 | Likewise the case examples , though few in number , offer much that is rich and rewarding for practice . |
| 3 | The same might be said of Redon 's frequently alluded to fragility : according to Eisenman he was ever teetering on the brink of depression and death , though this in turn does not explain why the artist lived seventy-five years of life quite satisfactorily . |
| 4 | Telling a story means making what is false ( or at least largely invented ) seem true , so ‘ realism ’ ( a term hard to define but impossible to avoid ) becomes a crucial yardstick of success , a measure of whether the film wins or loses in the game of make-believe , which may also be the serious game of box-office success or failure ( though this in turn relates only erratically to the quality of a film in general or its SFX in particular ) . |
| 5 | Kings Fountain , a creditable runner-up to Remittance Man on his seasonal reappearance at Wincanton , is expected to make the line-up though some of trainer Kim Bailey 's Lambourn string have been coughing . |
| 6 | It may be , firstly , that the increased output of manufacturing is yielding marked increases in what industrial workers ( though fewer in number ) spend in the service sector , and so supporting more jobs there . |
| 7 | His anti-Semitism may be a separate issue ( though many of course will deny even that ) ; but his Fascism can not be , since it represents a disastrously false judgement made in the course of following through a conviction not self-evidently false — about there being a connection between the health of letters and the health of the commonweal . |
| 8 | Eastern bishops were invited — though those in communion with Constantinople did not turn up — as well as abbots and lay representatives not only of princes , but of some city-states as well . |