Example sentences of "though they [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That way it 's though they 'll get close to what they need |
| 2 | Judith Hurwitz , now head of the Hurwitz Consulting Group , says the whole tone of SCO Forum was different this year and obviously indicates they are jockeying to go public — even though they 'll need a couple more quarters at least to get the kind of track record they need to do it . |
| 3 | And he construed from exchanges with others that though they might talk confidently about their childhood and adolescence , much of it was rumour and conjecture ; some of it pure fabrication . |
| 4 | Despite these qualifications from those immediately concerned , a live studio discussion was interpolated after the second , with three practitioners of the orthodox — Ian McColl , professor of surgery at Guy 's , Professor T. J. McElwaine , of the Royal Marsden , and Dr Walter Bodmer , director of research for the Imperial Cancer Fund — being ranged against , though they might demur about the word ‘ against ’ , Barbara Kidman , a broadcaster , journalist , cancer sufferer and author of a book on the alternative approach : and Dr Dick Richards , a physician and author . |
| 5 | The nature of stress is simple enough — practically everyone would agree that the first syllable of words like ‘ father ’ , ‘ open ’ , ‘ camera ’ is stressed , that the middle syllable is stressed in ‘ potato ’ , ‘ apartment ’ , ‘ relation ’ and that the final syllable is stressed in ‘ about ’ , ‘ receive ’ , ‘ perhaps ’ , and most people feel they have some sort of idea of what the difference is between stressed and unstressed syllables , though they might explain it in many different ways . |
| 6 | It follows then that if a poor vein on a good tribute suddenly improved then the men working it would stand to profit well , though they might expect to find that on the next setting-day , the rate would almost certainly be reduced in the mine 's favour . |
| 7 | However , many Christians nowadays , even though they might admire and approve of Locke 's preparedness to make faith reasonable , would not be happy with the particular arguments he used to establish that reasonableness . |
| 8 | In the latter case there is no clear set of questions to be asked , though they might include " What is democracy ? |
| 9 | The complex of disparate elements comprising academic English was always unstable , though they might have stayed together longer if it had not been for the demands of the academic environment . |
| 10 | Some officials have spoken of getting NATO to spread its wings , though they might have a hard time persuading the Canadians and Europeans of that . |
| 11 | The dismal nature of English teaching for O and A level in the past can perhaps be accounted for largely by the numbers of pupils entered for the examinations who were not in fact suited to study literature ( though they might have benefited from an advanced study of their own language ) . |
| 12 | ( The Tonga Chronicle gave due prominence to the storm the following week , though they might have wished for more careful sub-editing. ‘ $10 damage as islands hit by hurricane ’ read the headline . |
| 13 | Though they might have been thought unwise to travel to Berlin in the worsening international crisis , they had done nothing illegal and there was no authority to stop them . |
| 14 | Though they might have forgotten that the following day would be the sixth anniversary of their engagement , he with his prodigious memory had not . |
| 15 | they seem as though they might have hit it off . |
| 16 | Willis 's 5 for 42 clearly inspired Roberts , who in his first four overs sent back Steele , Hayes and Balderstone : Woolmer and Willey took the score to 80 before the former departed , and Willey and Greig then looked as though they might turn the match England 's way . |
| 17 | ‘ Because the place is littered with women who all look as though they might know you , or else , if they do n't , would like to . ’ |
| 18 | And — despite the fact that their portraits were largely drawn by monks — they were men in a distinctively lay tradition : not for them Gerald of Aurillac 's yearning for the cloister ; though they might put their sword to the service of the church , they wielded it just as often for secular purposes and to gain renown . |
| 19 | Isolated individuals are less likely to flourish even though they might survive in the aquarium . |
| 20 | I could see the beginning of cloud formations in the far west that looked as though they might thicken up and , since I wanted to get some shots of the Cove while the light was still good , I set off by Water Sinks , where the water from the Tarn sinks and does n't reappear again until some miles down the valley at Aire Head , and followed the footpath that would take me west of Watlowes dry valley and bring me down to the Cove by the pasture land above the Pennine Way . |
| 21 | Biblios were handing out travel survival packs which looked as though they would contain condoms , but did n't — come on Biblios , this is the 1990s ! |
| 22 | While certainly not denying the potential influence of certain characteristics of cities ( though they would dispute some , and point to others as being more effects than causes of urban decline ) , they argue that these factors have to be considered in the light of what is happening to industry itself . |
| 23 | Jean 's black curly hair Hew out as they swung round and her cheeks , always so ripe that they looked as though they would bleed at the touch of a straw , reddened more richly than ever . |
| 24 | The sharp miniature flakes that covered the rock like fish scales cut into my finger tips and felt as though they would break as soon as I placed a toe on them . |
| 25 | Men accept things as they are , though they would prefer things as they should be . |
| 26 | His eyes blazed through her , as though they would consume her . |
| 27 | The Jags looked as though they would hold out until half time but barely two minutes before the break they conceded a free kick just outside the box . |
| 28 | On the other hand , he wrote , there are people like Goldberg , like Moss and McGrindle , who believe in nothing , except perhaps in personal power and glory , though they would like to believe in something ‘ higher ’ . |
| 29 | ( Yet beauty of glass is that the story it tells is that the parts can not cohere , can not form a whole , even though they would like to . ) |
| 30 | They all said they would not be involved again , though they would support it and wished the new committee luck . |