Example sentences of "though it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones 's book remained untouched on the shelves of Northumbria 's modest library in its first two years , even though it had good reviews ; and the influence of his research has been all but negligible . |
| 2 | The Comédie Française did not impress her either , for it seemed to her a collection of posturing gabbling shadows , mocking at plays that she had studied in tranquillity and silence : the celebrated mirrors of Versailles were all spotty , Notre-Dame looked at her as though it had two spires missing from on top , and the famous intellectual cafés were full of old men and tourists . |
| 3 | The new machinery , though it had considerable defects , proved more efficient and much more flexible than the old . |
| 4 | Issi Abdul , six , clutches tightly onto his feeding bowl as though it contained liquid gold . |
| 5 | It had always been generous in terms of sick pay and sympathetic and understanding towards employees with family problems , though it expected high standards of dress and deportment and lateness , absenteeism and incivility were not tolerated . |
| 6 | The police poured out to stop them , though it took three nights before the disturbances began to die down . |
| 7 | Her imperial era was over , though it took another decade and two major anti-terrorist campaigns in Borneo and Aden to complete the transition . |
| 8 | It was concerned mainly with England , though it took some evidence from other English-speaking countries ( including Scotland ) . |
| 9 | Fernando would n't like that and she wanted to please him , not anger him , though it took some doing getting his anger up . |
| 10 | Well , I know now , though it took some time before my stupid head would accept what my infinitely more sensible heart had been trying to tell it all along . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , of course , ’ said Holly , as though it made any sense to her . |
| 12 | But Ukraine , though it renounced nuclear weapons when it became independent in 1991 , is now hesitating to ratify START 1 and the Lisbon protocol , and to accede as a non-nuclear state to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) . |
| 13 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 14 | He had seemed to sniff at the opened envelope as though it carried some scent , but the letter inside only peeped from the teat and was not taken out . |
| 15 | Germany , though it produced massive quantities of coal , steel and iron , was still a very backward place . |
| 16 | The columns of The Lancet suggest that the operation was performed , though it aroused fierce opposition , and was soon abandoned . |
| 17 | The Communist Party , though it gave full facilities to the People 's Vigilance Committee in the Daily Worker and Labour Monthly , continued to deny that the Convention was entirely inspired by the Party . |
| 18 | Until quite recently , meat from lambs under two years old was considered pale and tasteless so mutton ( a darker meat ) was preferred , even though it required slower cooking . |
| 19 | Though it claimed some influence upon the councils of action in the North East and in London , its impact was minimal . |
| 20 | I therefore reject the argument on behalf of the appellants in this case , that the Home Secretary is obliged to follow the judges ' views as to the requirements of retribution and deterrence in mandatory life sentence cases , even though it allowed some exceptions . |
| 21 | There are miles of computer imagery in 2010 to fill the video screens on the Leonov , then taken for granted , though it involved much work and Sony technology . |
| 22 | A laugh escaped her , though it held scant humour . |