Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] though " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I suggest that though the problems are no worse , they are not much better either . |
| 2 | It may have been a sign of things to come that though the strike led to a long lasting respect between Havelock Wilson and Tom Mann , no such relationship developed with Ben Tillett , who in his recollections of the strike refrains from making mention of Wilson at all . |
| 3 | Of course , heaths , downland and coppice all need management if they and their customary inhabitants are to survive ( though we seem to have conveniently forgotten that though these habitats are manicured , they are not man-invented , and all have prototypes in the wild created by fire , storm , flood and wild grazing animals . ) |
| 4 | It can , however , be claimed that though the expansion of employment in the public sector was not directly responsible for the decline in the number of people employed in the manufacturing sector because it did not use the same labour sources and because there was no labour shortage anyhow , it was , nevertheless , indirectly responsible because it led to a decline in private profit and hence to a shortage of capital for investment in the manufacturing industries . |
| 5 | It should be added that though this book is about BR , the 1980s also saw the opening of the last section of the Tyne & Wear Metro in March 1984 and the launch of the stillexpanding Docklands Light Railway in July 1987 . |
| 6 | But when the dust has settled , when we consider what we know — from reading history , from films , from our own experience , we realise that though it is outrageous the connections Blake makes are true ones . |
| 7 | She found that though she could not speak up herself , she understood snatches . |
| 8 | A friend of mine once returned to her house after a few month 's absence and found that though the font of her desk looked exactly the same as before she left , termites had eaten out the back of it and destroyed the contents of several drawers . |
| 9 | That 's where the fuel tanks are located and though it seemed likely that the partial tearing away of the wing had also ruptured the fuel lines and spilled the fuel , there was no way of being sure and no one , again as far as I know , has ever come up against the problem of what happens when an oxyacetylene jet meets a fuel tank under water . |
| 10 | The Earth is included because though only a few tens of impact craters are known , all of them are less than 500 Ma old and thus constitute recent cratering . |
| 11 | It takes a long time to warm up , a very long time , but then I sleep as though practising for death . |
| 12 | He might think and act as though he owned her , but he did n't . |
| 13 | They may giggle and act as though they have not a serious thought in their heads , but they know exactly what they are up to . |
| 14 | ( There are doubtful and borderline cases , but in practice most teachers , examiners , and linguists do act as though there are right and wrong sentences . ) |
| 15 | How dared he act as though she were the guilty party ? |
| 16 | The 286 family can access more memory , and the 386/486 family can act as though it was a number of 8086 based computers all at once — but there you see the glue coming back — the magic 8086 crops up yet again . |
| 17 | Jinny jerked as though someone had pulled at her . |
| 18 | Polly jerked as though she had been slapped . |
| 19 | The knife — the crucial prop here — is visually represented by a fist clenched as though round the knife handle . |
| 20 | And beside him , an elderly priest in a black soutane was also holding up a thumb and laughing as though he were taking part in a particularly outrageous joke . |
| 21 | In the 1950s and 60s dowries in India went down generally because gold was controlled , but not so in East Africa , where dowries rose as though they would never stop . |
| 22 | Okay , so you 've looked at it again and worked out that the strings appear as though they 've somehow slipped across the body . |
| 23 | Phrases can often behave as though they were single words . |
| 24 | Then she forced a smile , and said , ‘ Of course , Damien : and proffered a cheek , averted as though she was expecting a blow . |
| 25 | I mused as though to myself . |
| 26 | In other words , they will not count as though they were adults in a household . |
| 27 | I did n't mean to rub it in , but again I glanced unthinkingly at my watch and the little man winced as though he had received a blow . |
| 28 | Discarding pretence still further , she opened one of the drawers in the white chest of drawers , slamming it shut at once on the unfashionable baby clothes that Nannie had left in tidy small piles , washed and mended as though she had planned for them an after-life in which Nannie 's memory should have a lasting importance . |
| 29 | But to write as though the problem were one simply of petty snobbery and priggishness is , wilfully or not , to trivialize the argument , and not to hear the voices . |
| 30 | But he then proceeds to write as though those claims were really ‘ true ’ and uses this ‘ fact ’ to ‘ explain' the beliefs . |