Example sentences of "though it [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an autobiographical poem and though it ranges far from Brigflatts in its subject matter , it is Northern in its very essence and its tongue is the tongue of the Dales . |
| 2 | I did n't really imagine he 'd chosen the paint for the front door on that basis , but I liked the door being that colour , though it hurt stupidly by making me remember a lot of things . |
| 3 | As expected , the bill provides for the main planks of the NHS shake-up — NHS trusts , indicative drugs budgets , optional practice budgets for some GPs and creation of an ‘ internal market ’ — though it does so in markedly less robust commercial terminology than was first applied . |
| 4 | For all these reasons , there is some mixing , though it occurs more at some times of year ( during the winter storms ) than at others . |
| 5 | The nearest one can get to a level equivalence is to say that it is at roughly A Level standard , though it differs hugely from any actual A Level examination , and this comparison should not be taken too literally . |
| 6 | Even as she heard her own voice she was horrified by what it was saying , but somehow could n't stop herself , even though it went completely against the grain to tell such blatant lies . |
| 7 | It could have been Charity , though it looked suspiciously like ‘ Charlie ’ , which was the name of Mandy 's budgie . |
| 8 | Needing no alibis , however , though it comes close to an exploitation concept , is the hard-driving Australian movie Shame ( Vestron ) , with a dynamic central performance by Deborra-Lee Furness as the city woman caught up in Outback violence . |
| 9 | The number of full on-licences fell between 1945 and 1975 , though it increased again after that date : |
| 10 | Compared to the movements I have discussed , feminist criticism has little theoretical coherence , though it draws eclectically on poststructuralism , Marxism , and psychoanalysis . |
| 11 | The house is built on an ‘ L ’ shape , and though it evolved gradually over the fifteenth , sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , the whole gives a uniquely harmonious appearance , which must stem from the use all those years ago of essentially local materials which can not but blend . |
| 12 | Evidence of religious aspects comes from a sculptured relief of a hunter god , of which Professor J. M. C. Toynbee has written : ‘ even in its mutilated state , ( it ) is one of the most satisfying extant pieces of Romano-British sculpture known to us ’ , though it consists only of the torso . |
| 13 | Stranger still , when the Independent was threatened with High Court proceedings by Smurfit for linking his name with the site , none of the much eulogised executives in NCB noticed the formal published retraction — even though it referred specifically to UPH and Desmond . |
| 14 | Losses at the society 's estate agency more than doubled to £14.8 million , though it moved briefly into profit last summer . |