Example sentences of "though to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there were not this evidence that at this point he is only hazily in command of what he is doing , we might ask — though to no purpose , I think — whether Eleanor 's fiddling of her uncle into the see of Canterbury is presented to us for our approval , or the reverse . |
| 2 | I would write letters glowing with warmth and tenderness , poems as though to a damsel with a dulcimer , gentle cadences for gentle ladies with eyes like emerald . |
| 3 | We came here to Siena , where I have been before , though to a different house , to visit my husband who accompanied the Brownings last month , the doctor having ordered Mrs Browning to be taken out of this city or he would not answer for the consequences . |
| 4 | She spoke sadly , as though to a twenty-four-year-old there really was a time of lost innocence , and I suppose , if the twenty-four-year-old was a cocaine addict , then there was indeed such a time . |
| 5 | Those Right-Ons who had written off the Labour Party for ever now began to chew humble pie , and were drawn to Livingstone 's GLC as though to a magnet . |
| 6 | Perhaps all that makes it easier to understand why Orwell was so anxious that Waugh should read his books : anxious enough to send him copies , though to a stranger . |
| 7 | All of these suffer from the transfer problem already mentioned , though to a lesser extent . |
| 8 | Such benefits are of course also received by households with the highest gross income ( averaging £18,640 in 1983 ) , though to a much smaller extent . |
| 9 | Figure 3.3 shows the same effects in Europe , though to a lesser degree . |
| 10 | He probably has no serious rival on either side of the Atlantic , though to a much smaller audience of discriminating parents the English psychoanalyst , the late D. W. Winnicott , speaks ( 1964 ) with a similar skill ( as does Dr Hugh Jolly to readers of The Times ) . |
| 11 | Henrietta started to explain patiently , as though to a child . |
| 12 | The Baronessa raised a long white finger , weighted at the base by a sapphire ring , and wagged it as though to a child . |
| 13 | Not only does migration continue to produce considerable variations between places in rates of population change ( Ogilvy , 1982 ; Stillwell , 1985 ) , but mortality patterns also differ between places ( Townsend and Davidson 1982 ) and so too do fertility rates , though to a diminishing extent ( Newell , 1986 ) . |
| 14 | There is substantial evidence showing that the chances of surviving to old age are lower among the manual than non-manual groups and that this also applies , though to a lesser extent , to the number of years people live beyond retirement . |
| 15 | Expression of the N-Oct 3 cDNA ( Fig. 4b , lane 4 and 5 ) also activated transcription , though to a lesser extent than Oct-2 . |
| 16 | Parliamentary assemblies are essentially meetings of elected representatives of the people whose purposes include considering the policy proposals put before them by the executive , sometimes ( though to a much lesser extent ) initiating policy proposals of their own , examining and calling to account those responsible for the initiation and implementation of policy , and giving approval and legitimacy to the actions of the executive and bureaucracy . |
| 17 | From the literature of earlier periods Sir Walter Scott is inevitably represented , though to a lesser extent than frequently in the past . |
| 18 | Thirdly , Chesterfield shared in the region 's involvement in metal trades , though to a much lesser extent than its northerly neighbour , Sheffield ; the parish had its cutlers , scythemakers , nailers , locksmiths and Ralph Hethcote , the bellfounder . |
| 19 | This is what made it still possible — though to a rapidly diminishing extent — for workers in the newly industrialising areas to remain half-agricultural . |
| 20 | And Giovanna stood with her hand on the telephone which she had put down and spoke slowly , loudly , as though to an imbecile . |
| 21 | She has had hundreds of letters from adults sexually abused as children saying ‘ keep going , that they wished someone had diagnosed it in their childhood and describing the trauma they still suffer as adults even though to the outside world they are perfectly normal , respectable people . |
| 22 | He wanted to read philosophy but the university refused him ; so did the cinema school and the drama faculty ( though to the amused admiration of his friends in the theatre , he did eventually attend , as a student , after the successful opening of The Garden Party , and when he had already completed his best play , The Memorandum ( which remains probaby his most effective play ) . |
| 23 | But he knew what he was looking at , though to the untrained eye it was just a pile of minuscule fragments . |
| 24 | Grimm also referred though to the German poem of Orendel , written about 1200 . |
| 25 | Peter Martyr d'Anghiera , the Italian court historian ( though to the Spanish court ) who was the inventor of the phrase ‘ the New World ’ , the man who first announced the existence of a substance called India-rubber , and the principal contemporary chronicler of Columbus and all those others who explored and travelled to the ‘ Orbe Novo ’ in the fifteenth century , wrote an extraordinary account of how Balboa first heard the definite news . |
| 26 | Laughable in an altogether more tragic sense are No Man , who now have the dubious claim to fame of featuring three ex-members of Japan ( Steve Jansen , Richard Barbieri and Mick Kam ) in their backing band , though to the uninitiated they come across as three craggy muso casualties looking more than ready for the knacker 's yard . |
| 27 | Beta , at a distance of 78 light-years , is of special note because it seems to be associated with material which could possibly indicate a planetary system , and has actually been photographed from the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile , though to the ordinary observer Beta looks like a normal white star . |