Example sentences of "though in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Light : Requires good bright light for quick development , though in partial shade it will grow less vigorously . |
| 2 | Deacon had taken over the head of the formation as the leader 's R/T was not working , and calling a warning to the other pilots , he swung into the attack on one Messerschmitt from the quarter position , breaking away to attack a second similarly , though in neither case did he observe any results . |
| 3 | ‘ So do you , ’ Matt murmured , though in actual fact it was not entirely true . |
| 4 | ‘ Since you remember those moments we shared so vividly , my prowess as a lover must have left some impression on you , ’ he gritted toughly , then , his eyes glinting dangerously , he told her , straight from the shoulder , ‘ Though in actual fact I was n't talking of our time on your bed , but of your interest in my financial standing ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I expect Mr Gajdusek will give you time off to compensate , ’ she suggested , holding down more remarks , though in actual fact it was questions which sprang to her lips : where had Mr Gajdusek gone and how long would he be away ? |
| 6 | Possibly even in the most traditional area of slave cultivation , sugar , the mechanisation of sugar-mills from the mid-century diminished the need for labour in processing the product , though in booming sugar economies like Cuba it produced a corresponding rise in the demand for field-hands . |
| 7 | When she became queen she encouraged English refugees from William the Conqueror 's tyranny to settle in her husband 's country , though in due course he was forced to reach an agreement with the Norman invader . |
| 8 | The Conservative Government 's attempts at reviving the private-rented sector have met with very little success though in due course more substantial results are expected from the 1988 Housing Act . |
| 9 | Wenger ( 1984 , p. 91 ) found that more than half the childless old people in her study of rural Wales saw a relative , a sibling , niece , nephew or cousin at least once a week , though in inner city London there were more isolated old people ( Sinclair et al . , |
| 10 | Bécherel had been under the command of one of his retainers , and another had been Constable of Saint-Sauveur , though in all probability he had not been involved in its surrender . |
| 11 | I knew he 'd fought James on it tooth and nail , and though in all honesty I felt I 'd won him round to some extent since , the prejudices remained beneath the surface of benignity , waiting only for some unwary blunder on my part to crack the surface and let them burst through . |
| 12 | Shift work could also make attendance at ATB courses difficult though in one case a part-time farmer had given his local organiser a copy of his shift programme for the next six months ! |
| 13 | Though in one sense only just begun . |
| 14 | Next day Henry , though in such agony that he could hardly sit on his horse , met Philip and Richard at Ballon and there agreed to the terms which they dictated . |
| 15 | She began to moan as he caressed her trembling body , and when he entered her she cried aloud as though in great pain . |
| 16 | I worked in Room 82 , though in typical Bletchley fashion there were not eighty-one rooms preceding it . |
| 17 | Though in that crowd of humans , mutants and exters there was no way of telling who was watching who . |
| 18 | It is a neuter because it has the diminutive ending -chen , though in modern German it has replaced the non-diminutive ( feminine ) form die Magd . |
| 19 | Curiously his present preoccupation with spire , tower and west front is exactly the same ( though in reverse order ) as the preoccupation of his predecessor a century ago under Gilbert Scott . |
| 20 | Delta and Mu look like wide pairs , though in each case the components are not physically associated , and are too far apart to be classed as true doubles . |
| 21 | Responsibility for various specific public services is hived off to a range of special agencies , though in each case ultimate responsibility for policy lies with one of the central departments . |
| 22 | He had five victories in 1986 , another six in 1987 , though in each season he had to settle for runner-up place in the Championship . |
| 23 | For the rest , a great deal of what you have to do in the detective novel will be much what the writer of the blueprint story had to do , though in each department there will be modifications . |
| 24 | Raymond Lully featured among them , though in apocryphal form , as the subject of a singular conversion experience : inflamed by illicit passion for a married woman , he would brook no denial until she took him to her house and there , in the presence of her husband , bared to Raymond 's astonished eyes a breast almost entirely devoured by cancer . |
| 25 | Often people go on to say something apparently absurd like , ‘ But he said he 'd be home early tonight , ’ or ‘ But he never said goodbye ’ , as though in some way the person concerned knew he was going to die . |
| 26 | There are few children who do not experience the death of a much-loved grandparent or pet when they are quite young , and yet so often they are excluded from all the changes that go on at the time of a grandparent 's death , as though in some way this will leave them unaffected . |
| 27 | It was air into which farts and old food odours had been released , but which was completely inert , as though in some way lacking ions or ozone , because the air conditioner had not worked for years and the windows were sealed . |
| 28 | Lissa pressed her fingertips to the window-pane , as though in some way that would keep him near to her , but the ambulance moved off along the road and the fragile connection was severed . |
| 29 | He inserted it through the side of his skull and , finding that he was still alive though in some pain , drove to a nearby hospital , where he later died . |
| 30 | In the first place , there are universal factors which contribute powerfully , in almost all cases , though in different measure ( see Brubaker , 1992 ) , to the formation of a sense of nationality : common descent ( that is , the idea of belonging to a distinctive ‘ people ’ ) , the occupation of a definite territory , a common language , and more broadly a common culture . |