Example sentences of "though [pers pn] [vb -s] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has danced with Soul II Soul , Jamie Morgan , Will Downing and Jermaine Stewart , though she feels that she is probably ‘ not dedicated enough ’ to dance professionally . |
| 2 | She suspects that Charles suspects that she had once had an affair with Ivan , but of course she had not , though she concedes that Ivan is so unpleasant that only a degree of past sexual intimacy could plausibly explain the kind of relationship that he and Liz have over the years established . |
| 3 | The group is still looking for possible partners for its optronics operations , though it insists that so far there have only been talks , not negotiations . |
| 4 | The group is still looking for possible partners for its optronics operations , though it insists that so far there have only been talks , not negotiations . |
| 5 | If the bird 's head disappears behind some small obstruction , the cat can be seen to rush forward and pounce , as though it knows that at that moment the bird can not see its rapid advance . |
| 6 | The question of whether or not ‘ In the beginning … ’ is superstition is forced on us by the poem but left unanswered though it appears that to go back beyond Origen would be immensely difficult . |
| 7 | It was he , writing in the issue of 15 September 1941 , who called the thirties the ‘ Pink Decade ’ , which has n't really stuck , though it seems that he coined the term ‘ Greeneland ’ to define the peculiar territory of Graham Greene 's fiction . |
| 8 | If he does so , the auctioneer can make the purchaser pay the full price again , even though it means that the purchaser pays twice over . ’ |
| 9 | Confession is the strategy which minimises the maximum jail sentence the prisoner can receive , and this minimax strategy is the best one , even though it ensures that the prisoner can not receive the lowest sentence allowed by the ‘ game ’ , the one year for a lesser offence . |
| 10 | Clive James should have stayed with book-reviewing : his destruction of ‘ Princess Daisy ’ must be the funniest thing he ever wrote , even though he admits that ‘ to pour abuse on a book like this makes no more sense than to kick a powder-puff ’ . |
| 11 | Devereux is open on this question , though he admits that we know of only some of the ‘ invisible and subtler forces that course through creation ’ and even those we are beginning to discover can occur in contexts with which we are unfamiliar . |
| 12 | Gilkes is content enough with the Sparc market that his firm has to itself at the present , though he admits that the company is looking at other , unspecified RISC architectures , and it really is only just little more than co-incidence that Tadpole 's US office is just down the street from where IBM/Motorola Inc 's PowerPC RISC efforts are concentrated . |
| 13 | In all his work he addresses not just those who are enclosed as religious solitaries with special time for attention to their inner development — though he admits that this life-style is most conducive to it — but all those who are predisposed to pursue an inner life . |
| 14 | He detected no atmosphere of ‘ them and us ’ , though he suspects that in similar circumstances today it might be a different story . |
| 15 | Back at Havant most of Wilkie 's plans remain under wraps , though he says that the plant will be setting up its own sales and marketing operation , rather than relying on IBM Europe and will initially be targeting the UK market , though in the process he hopes to pick up orders from international vendors . |
| 16 | Mr Large himself is impressed by the SEC , though he warns that a single regulator could be a bureaucratic juggernaut . |
| 17 | Ken 's agreed to run on our policies and our ticket , ’ even though he acknowledges that they suit him better than Ken . |
| 18 | First , he comments on the king 's astuteness in seeing through the arguments of the heretics , though he implies that for some while Clovis had been persuaded by them . |
| 19 | ‘ It was electric — the most exciting , most demanding period of my life , ’ says Robertson , though he reckons that , as a vociferous , opinionated twenty-year-old he ‘ must have looked like such an arsehole ’ . |
| 20 | Indeed , Norris looks for a possible rapprochement between deconstruction and the Anglo-American philosophical tradition exemplified by Searle , though he finds that Derrida has more possible affinities with Searle 's master , Austin . |