Example sentences of "though it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Though it hardly arose , for the boy was engrossed in his Welsh affairs , and came south as little as he could . |
| 32 | I said that I just happened to have my travelling rod with me … though it hardly mattered as they had more than enough gear . |
| 33 | Though it hardly seems possible , spring-flowering bulbs are on sale again , and if we want to bring some winter cheer to the home we should be planting them now . |
| 34 | Olive oil is a monosaturate , and as such was once discriminated against by weight-watchers and nutrition gurus , even though it too contained only 120 calories per tablespoon . |
| 35 | The Independent has remained independent from political allegiances though it too favoured a middle-of-the-road political outcome in the 1987 election . |
| 36 | The interior of the farmhouse had been opened out into a reception office , though it still had the original stone floor and a pretty impressive fireplace in the middle of one wall . |
| 37 | By the second year the young orang is becoming more independent , though it still keeps close to its mother . |
| 38 | Every morning and evening he came and my wing got better , though it still hurt and was just a little crooked . |
| 39 | Because programs can store any segment of any letter , this process is far less laborious than it once was , though it still took around three months for the nine fonts which make up the Ecotype family . |
| 40 | The door was only pushed to , though it still took some fancy paw-work to haul it open . |
| 41 | In the 1950s the Church of England had called for reform of the law under which gay sex was illegal under all circumstances , though it still held the position that such acts were immoral . |
| 42 | Though it still has no intention of selling directly , Microsoft wants a bigger say on how its products should be used . |
| 43 | Informal meetings with 100 carers also brought home the reality of mutual abuse , with roughly half saying they were abused , though it still has to be determined what part physical abuse played . |
| 44 | The lower dam has been breached and most of the signs of its previous existence are gone , while the upper dam , though it still has a fine water race below it , is silted over and is now a peaty , muddy reed-bed . |
| 45 | Where the party 's procedure for selecting a leader is laid down and is seen to have worked , e.g. the eliminating ballot procedure used by the Parliamentary Labour Party in March-April 1976 , the selection is fairly clear , though it still has to be made . |
| 46 | Though it still controlled local government , it lost some of its power of patronage and could no longer direct national policy in favour of its clientele . |
| 47 | A later estimate ( 21 November 1952 ) , though it still graded Britain as the most important member of the Atlantic community , described her as in many respects a fragile and wrong-headed partner . |
| 48 | Though it still needed to learn to live with the ways of the new peoples , it had its own mature traditions , and cultural and institutional development , encapsulating much of Roman civilization and fitting it to play a decisive role in shaping the new Germanic societies . |
| 49 | Corepressor binding does not cause significant structural change in the protein , though it greatly increases the affinity for the operator . |
| 50 | Even though it always gives me pleasure to speak with you , I do have a purpose in phoning . ’ |
| 51 | Compulsory education constitutes the initial basic and general stages , the difference between the two being mainly a matter of scope and level rather than intention or function , though it sometimes corresponds to the transition from primary to secondary education . |
| 52 | The area where people , often actors doubled by stuntpersons , play monsters or semi-monsters ( for example , werewolves ) or indeed androids is loosely classified under ‘ Make-up ’ , though it sometimes seems remote from the theatrical traditions of slap and wigs . |
| 53 | Though it naturally carries the pope 's name , credit for writing this most liberalizing document belongs to the pope 's confessor , the German Jesuit Father ( later Cardinal ) Augustine Bea , who was then rector of the Biblicum . |
| 54 | Previous days ' food and grime always made a meal look unappetizing , though it never affected the taste . |
| 55 | He knew what the Victorian churchmen of the north had done for the miners and how by the third quarter of the nineteenth century the Church was strong within the mining communities though it never took the place of the Methodists . |
| 56 | This at times , before the nineteenth century , was almost the ‘ respectable ’ standard , though it never went unchallenged . |
| 57 | The Cepheid variable R Crucis , between Acrux and Epsilon , is an easy binocular object , though it never becomes much brighter than the seventh magnitude . |
| 58 | At the end of the same year an unofficial foreign affairs committee was formed within the ruling Liberal party to mobilise public opinion in favour of fuller discussion of foreign policy in parliament , though it never represented more than a minority of Liberal members . |
| 59 | ‘ We can never dismiss yesterday as though it never happened , because we carry it with us from moment to moment until the end of our days . ’ |
| 60 | Since then , the forces of continental drift have continued to pull the two continents apart , widening the Atlantic , but the habit of returning to the sea each year to spawn has never been broken even though it now involves such an immense journey . |