Example sentences of "though a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then Burgess , though a master of many moods , seems to mistrust the comic , and believes that entertainment falsifies the world by concentrating on matter rather than manner . |
| 2 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 3 | At the other extreme he sometimes pushed his boys into bed with girls in order to make himself suffer , though a part of him may also have enjoyed the proximity or heterosexual life . |
| 4 | She missed her so dreadfully when she was away , as though a part of her very own body was missing . |
| 5 | Though a man of conservative , even authoritarian views , who had been a protege of Pétain 's , de Gaulle rejected the Vichy regime because of its identification with surrender and collaboration , actions which were unworthy of France . |
| 6 | The outbreak of war put an end to the possibility of reviving the League of Youth , though a sub-committee of the NEC was created to do so . |
| 7 | Though a supporter of Jewish settlement in Palestine , and one of Theodor Herzl 's earliest Anglo-Jewish patrons , he opposed Herzl 's scheme for a Jewish state as impractical , contrary to the divine will , and subversive of the attachment of the Jew to the state of which he was a citizen . |
| 8 | Equally , Southern catholic nationalists prefer a unified Irish state , though a majority of 54 per cent would accept a federal one based on the present two state units . |
| 9 | Right-wing readers of a right-wing paper were more likely than left-wing readers of that same paper to claim that their paper was biased towards the right — though a majority of both left- and right-wing readers typically agreed that their papers were biased and agreed on the direction of that bias . |
| 10 | Similarly , in France , though a majority of neo-Gaullist deputies were anti-Maastricht , the total number of deputies who had voted Yes in the referendum ( 363 ) outnumbered those voting No ( 174 ) by two to one . |
| 11 | The polytechnics now almost exclusively submit their degree courses to the CNAA for validation and the colleges and institutes of higher education are increasingly doing so , though a majority of the latter are still validated by the universities . |
| 12 | Wales is not a separate administrative Region from the remainder of the UK , though a degree of administrative autonomy is provided by The Welsh Office , a Ministry of the Central Government . |
| 13 | His own ecclesiastical authority as an archbishop and metropolitan , though a reflection of papal authority at one level , was too important to him in itself to allow of such a thing . |
| 14 | She stood a better chance , she thought , upon her own : though a chance of what she would not have liked to have said . |
| 15 | The Jutland ( also known as the Sortbroget Jydsk Malkekvæg , or SJM ) in its old form is virtually extinct , though a herd of about 30 black-and-white and grey-and-white Jutland cattle is being preserved by a family on the island of Fünen . |
| 16 | The great blocks of nineteenth-century neoclassical building which characterise this part of Pest give it a rather grand manner , though a century of knocks has rather frayed its hauteur . |
| 17 | The implication is that poverty is due to lack of involvement with successful capitalist enterprise and , though a minority of the poor do become successful entrepreneurs by building up small businesses from street selling , the vast majority are poor because they are excluded from the modern economy . |
| 18 | The workers , though a minority of the Merseyside institution 's 600 staff , have been responsible for a catalogue of cruelty , it says . |
| 19 | Even though a state of emergency was declared in Kenya that same month none of the family seemed particularly perturbed . |
| 20 | And the price-cutting superstore in question , Silo Inc , though a subsidiary of British retailer Dixons plc , does not do mail order to the UK . |
| 21 | And here was the waterfront , not of the river , but a grimy offshoot of the Danube Canal , apparently little used , though a couple of moored barges were bumping against the ramshackle wooden pier . |
| 22 | Probes into the affairs of businessmen have been comparatively restrained , though a couple of government-appointed bank chiefs have retired . |
| 23 | The Secte Rouge guards had been charging the Marines with their machetes , to little effect , though a couple of Marines had gone down . |
| 24 | Staffing was included , though a ratio of 50:50 between expenditure on salaries and materials , thought to be reasonable at that time , has since been distorted by a much greater proportion of expenditure going to staffing . |
| 25 | The three colours , natural , red or buff can be used separately or mixed , though a mixture of colours is not to everyone 's taste . |
| 26 | Though a gust of icy wind made his eyes water , blurring the caller 's features , he knew them well enough . |
| 27 | All loco-hauling has ceased on the Crewe-Cardiff route , though a shortage of Classes 155 and 156 on Easter Monday evening led to the use of a Class 150/2 from the Cardiff Valley Lines . |
| 28 | Banfield 's work , though a classic of its kind , is recognised even by pluralists as too limited in scope to provide a full explanation of the phenomenon of tong-term peripheral deprivation . |
| 29 | Eventually however the ARC conditionally agreed to consider funding the Task Force to conduct its own study , though a string of bureaucratic obstacles were also raised for the Alliance to overcome , including the phased release of funding , requirement of approval from each stage governor , and the development of a ‘ mutually acceptable framework of analysis . ’ |
| 30 | One-and-a-half hours was typical , though a number of fast workers reckoned they could buckle down and get a baby seat fixed in one hour flat . |