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 new machinery , though it had considerable defects , proved more efficient and much more flexible than the old .
3 Issi Abdul , six , clutches tightly onto his feeding bowl as though it contained liquid gold .
4 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 .
5 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 ) .
6 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 .
7 Germany , though it produced massive quantities of coal , steel and iron , was still a very backward place .
8 The columns of The Lancet suggest that the operation was performed , though it aroused fierce opposition , and was soon abandoned .
9 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 .
10 A laugh escaped her , though it held scant humour .
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