Example sentences of "[that] though [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second point is that though everyone subscribes to the principle that voluntary organisations should be included in Joint planning , the principle is often executed in fairly ad hoc ways . |
| 2 | And he wanted to make similar remarks about our initial belief that though we use the same language and agree on the words with which to describe the colours of the objects around us , still we might for all we know see the objects completely differently ; an object that causes in me what I call a sensation of red may cause in you what I would call a sensation of blue , though we can never know this since we will continue to agree on what to say and on how to act in our differently coloured environments ( we will all stop at a red traffic light , for instance ) . |
| 3 | But several disabled readers have written to tell me that though they 've found their perfect partner , physical handicaps mean sexual fulfilment is often very difficult . |
| 4 | Department of the Environment ministers announced that though they had been advised that the statue was part of the listed building , and that consent was therefore required for its removal , they none the less considered it was a chattel , and would not take enforcement action . |
| 5 | The Poitevins claimed that they had been attacked while peace talks were in progress and that though they had naturally defended themselves they had certainly not intended to kill the Earl . |
| 6 | Findings from the unions were a surprise to those who had glimpsed Utopia as a world where work became unnecessary : one American union polled its members and discovered that though they thought work was boring , they would rather do that than do nothing . |
| 7 | He next examines the Hebridean footwear — ‘ Brogues , a kind of artless shoes , stitched with thongs so loosely , that though they defend the foot from stones , they do not exclude water . ’ |
| 8 | I know that though I 've shown you the photograph you still want me to describe him to you , this Boy of ours . |
| 9 | ANOTHER Budget bites the dust and I am assailed by the sobering realisation that though I 've been subjected to a fair number of them now , I have n't really understood any . |
| 10 | I got on well with Rosemary right from the start , soon realising that though I had lost one friend , I had found another . |
| 11 | This was due , no doubt , to the fact that though I motored further and further from the house , I continued to find myself in surroundings with which I had at least a passing acquaintance . |
| 12 | One girl told me that though she had never taken them herself , her friend had tried them and turned bright orange . |
| 13 | She explains that though she works most days , there is a television where she works . |
| 14 | You become very conscious in broadcasting that though you teach the same truths , you approach them from the opposite direction . |
| 15 | Is it possible , however , that though you do not know that you are not a brain in a vat you still know many other things , perhaps more important ? |
| 16 | The seven which are relevant to Christ 's manhood are : belief in the Incarnation and Virgin birth ; that in Jesus God and man are united , begotten by God , born of Mary ; belief in " Cristes passion " that after Christ was taken down from the cross dead ( the deposition ) , he liberated those believers subject to death before he was born , a process known as the Harrowing of Hell ; that though he suffered mortality , he rose from the dead through the strength of God , and made this possible for all men ; that he ascended into heaven and was crowned higher than the angels ; that he will come at the end of time to judge the world and this will be the end of the era of redemption : These two sets of seven points about the Godhead and Christ delineate beliefs about the nature of life subject to a process of sickness and death but also filled with the potential for healing realised definitively in the life of Christ . |
| 17 | Vincent reported to Theo that though he had worries , he had a feeling of satisfaction at having accomplished the move . |
| 18 | He does , indeed , make an attempt to meet this difficulty , by alleging , in the replication to the fourth plea , that he married relying on the testator 's promise ; but he shrinks from alleging , that though he had promised to marry before the testator 's promise to him , nevertheless , he would have broken his engagement , and would not have married without the testator 's promise . |
| 19 | Instead take more note of his remark that though he thought us ugly to look at , we are not ugly to be with . |
| 20 | On another occasion he remarked to Bernard that though he enjoyed flirting and foreplay , he found sexual intercourse unsatisfactory . |
| 21 | The magistrate said that though he acknowledged that Dad was a peaceful , law-abiding citizen who had never had any trouble with the police and who held strong religious beliefs , there were nevertheless times ‘ when people do get angry and tell lies . ’ |
| 22 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
| 23 | Alice could see that though he slid the papers into place so swiftly , he was dealing to one side , as in a card game , newspapers with headlines of interest : The Jarrow Marchers … |
| 24 | But a candidate not so ear-marked may sink to an F or G anyway when it is found that his language though intelligible is not accurate , or that though he knows some historical terminology he uses it inappropriately . |