Example sentences of "though none " in BNC.

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1 AT&T 's hostile bid for NCR turned a lot friendlier when Ma Bell met the computer company 's asking price of $110 a share , though none of the $7.5 billion will be in cash .
2 Some of the mothers let their children dart forward to drop a penny in the monkey 's mug , though none let their children too close .
3 Four crews are also competing for places in the Canadian doubles category though none has yet reached the required Olympic qualifying standard .
4 Occasionally , there are other setbacks , though none as spectacular as the mess he got himself into during 1989 .
5 Some of those questioned said that these annoyances disturbed their pleasure , though none would really add up to forms of unhappiness .
6 Several of the men , though none of the women , made embarrassed noises of dissent .
7 The house was bounded on its Culver Street frontage by Invicta Terrace — a row of thirteen identical dwellings having two rooms and a scullery downstairs and three bedrooms on the first floor , though none of the rooms were of any size .
8 Many of these housing areas were very successful in their own way , though none achieved the ‘ informal naturalness ’ of the original : as Hall comments ‘ Radburn is the best Radburn layout . ' ’
9 The Scriptures of all faiths are equally inspired , though none can be regarded as literally inspired .
10 Women are expected to work on shifts though none like the ‘ unsociable ’ ones .
11 ‘ The king my brother is fearful — though none knows it save I , ’ explained the prince .
12 He chose to spend his moments of relaxation with his political cronies , though none of them could be said to have enjoyed his full confidence .
13 Women can be frightened of losing their looks , their intelligence , their jobs , their youth , or anything else that they prize , through having babies ; even though none of this may happen in fact , the fear arises from sensing the real force of motherhood , which ruthlessly dissolves self-image and cherished convictions .
14 In these circumstances , a determined mother could be free to groom herself , hold office in this or that community activity , or find a job , in order to fulfil herself ; though none of them seemed to be able to explain why acting as a bank teller or the secretary of a charity , for example , was more fulfilling than looking after their own children .
15 Almost at a signal , though none was given , the women rose .
16 It is made worse still by those Tories who feel they would be better off with a different leader , though none say that publicly .
17 We were all serious in a cheerful way and very hard working , though none of the wives had jobs .
18 It may represent a list of deities , a list of soldiers , or a discussion by a Hittite king of the building of the temple at Phaistos : all these suggestions have been put forward , though none of them has convinced even a quorum of scholars .
19 He heard the heavy lead balls flicking through the stalks of rye , though none went near him .
20 Destiny Technology claims the code name created confusion between USL 's operating system and its controller software and hardware products with its customers though none of its products apparently bear the name Destiny .
21 Selling to hard-bitten local network application developers will be quite a different prospect — there is no shortage of application development tools already available , though none has CICS 's 24 years of transaction processing experience to draw on .
22 Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp says the Freedom 1000 and 3000 3D graphics accelerators that it is to sell on Sun Microsystems Inc platforms ( UX No 407 ) , have been designed as processor-independent units which could well end up on other CPU architectures in future , though none were mentioned specifically .
23 The other two returns , the Coventry one especially , are much less comprehensive though none the less indispensable .
24 Prince Jan Lubomirski , who managed to buy his castle of Kruszyna back from the local council for a symbolic zloty ( they refused Barbara Johnson 's offer of millions in a fine gesture of patriarchal loyalty ) , can not get the Lodz Museum to return the set of family portraits removed from it , even though none of them has ever been exhibited since being confiscated .
25 Tikrit looked like any other Iraqi town , except that the streets were cleaner and the walkways over the road were equipped with escalators — though none were working .
26 There were even some moves towards a central co-ordinating committee , though none of these shared the characteristics of Maud 's management board ( Hampton 1970:54 — 61 ) .
27 Peter could play a lot of instruments , though none very well .
28 But though none might be prepared to go so far as that , all British parties would quickly realize that apparent discrimination against women in their lists would do them a lot of harm .
29 On 16 January a provincial council of the southern clergy met at St Paul 's and added further impetus and justification to deposition by presenting thirteen of their own complaints or grievances against the king , though none of these concerned an offence peculiar to his reign .
30 Their replies were closer to the way a psychologist or a physiologist might interpret the question , though none of the children would understand the way visual perception works .
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