Example sentences of "though not [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shape of a picture may have been altered , and the museum , though not a stray visitor , will know the fact . |
| 2 | He had inherited his family 's respect for learning , and though not a savant himself , he nevertheless brought his children up with a healthy respect for books and the independence they instil . |
| 3 | The general opinion is that a bridge is necessary , though not a toll bridge . ’ |
| 4 | The latest available figures for Holland , Belgium and Austria ( which , though not a member of the EMS , pegs its currency to the D-mark ) show that output remains fairly buoyant . |
| 5 | Trustees would hold the legal estate on trust with a power ( though not a duty ) to sell and a power to retain . |
| 6 | Charlemagne himself was a singer though not a soloist like David ; he sang only when the rest of the congregation was singing , and in a low voice . |
| 7 | During the 1987 Iran/Contra hearings in Washington the most frightening witness was Colonel Oliver North , who , though not a direct employee of the CIA , had been inextricably associated with it in this sordid affair . |
| 8 | Samuel Richardson , though not a subscriber to the first volume , had taken an interest in Leapor , who was in his eyes perhaps a more tragic Pamela . |
| 9 | In the middle distance , undulating sand hid the road , though not a tiny green Land Rover moving along it . |
| 10 | Though not a major consideration , format does affect shelf-life and use . |
| 11 | I preferred to cross the ferry to the hotel on the other side , and found there was a spare bed though not a spare room . |
| 12 | I ought to have said , that though not a stout young man , he has always been very healthy , and has no dread of confinement . |
| 13 | Though not a conspicuously modest chap ( he confirmed that he had taken ‘ an ethos of academic excellence ’ with him to his original chair in Essex ) . |
| 14 | I was beginning to think of myself as an athlete , though not a very serious one . |
| 15 | One of our prolific actors , Michael Caine is also an avid foodie and successful restaurateur — though not a lot of people know that |
| 16 | The facial features are those of an elderly woman and , though not a portrait of the deceased , they are in line with standard representational portraiture of the period ; viewed from above one can almost visualize the parted winding-sheet . |
| 17 | Dealing with wireless every day , Joe rarely listened when off duty to accounts of small successes put over in the announcer 's authoritative tone and the defeats intoned as if reporting a death : which it was , though not a single death , such as when Tobruk had fallen in June and Mussolini went into Libya . |
| 18 | A quick check of all the extremities of the aircraft will be a good indicator though not a complete one . |
| 19 | Though not a Scripture scholar in the strict sense , he knew the Pauline Epistles well and a selection of his lectures on St Paul from the 1930s were published after his death ( Colloqui Religiosi , Brescia , 1981 ) . |
| 20 | The Interactive product , picked up when Sun acquired that part of Eastman-Kodak Co 's Unix subsidiary , is now being pushed at the lower end of the Intel marketplace and further iterations will appear , though not a Unix SVR4 version . |
| 21 | In relation to the almost antithetical Marxist positions of Sartre and Althusser , Foucault does not , however , simply follow the latter rather than the former : he articulates through a historical perspective the problems that their work encountered and attempts to produce a new method of historical enquiry — though not a general theory of history as such — that is both theoretically coherent and politically effective with respect to the particular problems under examination . |
| 22 | Towards the end of 1951 he undertook a Sketch-Club criticism at St Martin 's School of Art where his liveliness and way of talking impressed the young David Tindle , who , though not a student at St Martin 's , was sitting in among the audience . |
| 23 | Though not a homosexual , he mixed easily with gays , laughed readily at Minton 's jokes and made a good audience . |
| 24 | The seriousness of the offence might have a role to play , though not a conclusive one . |
| 25 | One other type of statue is integral to the idea of a Doric temple , though not a part of it : the cult-statue within . |
| 26 | The cultural frontier that here lies between canton Bern and the original Four Forest Cantons has been described thus : " though not a boundary between language groups , it does form a more significant division in everyday affairs , separating one set of customs and traditions from others . " |
| 27 | A curious complaint , though not a new one . |
| 28 | His faith comprised curiously disparate elements — the rough , frightened , humility of the countryman ; the thoughtful worshipper ; the vigorous enquirer ; and even though not a micro-molecule of disrespect ever enters his attitude towards his Deity , his natural radical-ness stood so near at hand one can almost feel its heat . |
| 29 | Though not a commanding presence in the House , Norton was a devoted committee man . |
| 30 | Though not a Leveller sympathizer , he sat as a leading London Independent on the committee that drafted the second Agreement of the People . |