Example sentences of "though it [be] [not/n't] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zapp wants the subject to be organized , systematic , objective , in a word — though it is not a word he uses — scientific . |
| 2 | These panels are likely to suffer from what has been called ‘ duty ’ listening or viewing in which a person feels he or she ought to , say , watch a television programme because there is a questionnaire for it , even though it is not a programme that person would ordinarily view at all . |
| 3 | Lord Denning M.R. said that liability extends to a case where a ‘ third person prevents or hinders one party from performing his contract , even though it be not a breach . ’ |
| 4 | And it was in Paris that the Liszt-Thalberg rivalry began ( though it was not a thing of their own making , and there does not seem to have been any genuine animosity between them ) ; when they played in a contest in an aristocratic household Thalberg was declared the first pianist in the world and Liszt was thus deemed to have won on points , and it was said that Thalberg departed with his head hung low . |
| 5 | The counsellor said , weighing her words , ‘ Perhaps you are saying that you were right in your feeling , your sense that there was something going on , even though it was not an affair but a friendship . ’ |