Example sentences of "though [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their armour , though skilfully made and often beautiful , was far less durable than that of the crusaders . |
| 2 | Though widely remembered and warmly received , the candidate had few political goal scoring opportunities . |
| 3 | The train-shed arched over the adjacent pavement and a long colonnade carried pedestrians along the side of the station as though rather hoping that they would become passengers . |
| 4 | The problems we shall face will not be wholly new ones , but those with which we are familiar ; though perhaps intensified and extended . |
| 5 | His voice was cultured , he spoke with a more cosmopolitan accent than Edward Morris who though obviously educated and quite well to do had a marked Welsh accent . |
| 6 | Turku Cathedral survives , though greatly restored and rebuilt , having been damaged and battered in its long history . |
| 7 | After about nine months , the baby starts to clamber out of the pouch and hop about at its mother 's side , though still returning when danger threatens or when it wants a drink of milk . |
| 8 | Within ten days the French by their verve and offensive spirit had wrested superiority in the air from the Germans , though still outnumbered and outclassed . |
| 9 | The drag , though usually appearing as above , may contain more than two preliminary grace-notes ( which really amount to an infinitesimally short roll ) . |
| 10 | The church tower stands out on the skyline in the middle of the village and the church dates from the 14th century , though extensively restored and to some extent rebuilt in Victorian times . |
| 11 | Though often condemned as naive , his efforts to conciliate Stalin probably owed much to his estimates of American public opinion and of the likely postwar balance of power in Europe , and his desire to win the war as quickly ( and cheaply in terms of Americans lives ) as possible . |
| 12 | The well-known deconstruction carried out in ‘ Structure , Sign , and Play ’ shows how the constitution of anthropological knowledge , though often paraded as scientific and objective , is nevertheless governed by a problematic of which it remains unaware : the philosophical category of the centre — which Derrida then proceeds to articulate with the problem of Eurocentrism . |
| 13 | Courtelle is still a strong runner , though mainly re-exported as yarn or knitted fabric from Italy , where temperature extremes ( 40C in summer to minus 17C in winter ) make natural fibres more popular . |
| 14 | This is a step towards justice though TODAY believes that her sentence should have been longer still . |
| 15 | To the west they could hear the rumble of artillery , crackle of muskets and sounds of combat , though curiously muffled and remote . |
| 16 | Though heavily laden as they were on their trek back to the crofts , they did not complain . |
| 17 | Four great Gothic monuments survive in Lübeck , though considerably restored and rebuilt : the Marienkirche , the Petrikirche , the Cathedral and the Holstentor . |