Example sentences of "though [noun] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Banking sources said in June that credit needs were expected to expand dramatically even though Romania was owed some $3,000,000 million from abroad and had hard currency reserves of $900,000,000 million . |
| 2 | Hence , though change was taking place its pace has been slow , and it is unlikely there will be any fundamentally new pattern of population distribution in the urban hierarchy in the foreseeable future . |
| 3 | After a brief period during which a registered trade union was a corporate body under the Act of 1971 , the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 restored the immunity , though liability was imposed ( where there was no trade dispute ) for certain torts causing personal injury or breaches of duty connected with the union 's property . |
| 4 | And Ellen never replied now , not even with a note , though money was sent to her as regularly as ever . |
| 5 | Mr Milburn , whose comments have been supported by consultant Sheila Shearson , said Darlington had been without a fulltime accident and emergency consultant even though money was allocated for the post two years ago . |
| 6 | Even though Haider was forced to resign as governor of Carinthia in June 1991 [ see p. 38298 ] he remained party leader . |
| 7 | Even though Churchill was appointed as one of the presidents of the Movement , it was at this point that British leadership began to disappear from the unity movement . |
| 8 | Though flogging was restricted , the length of sentences which lower courts were empowered to impose was doubled . |
| 9 | Though Will was distracted by crowds and other outside influences , he was very quick to learn and Trish felt that he had the makings of a dressage horse . |
| 10 | A spokesman said no transfusion was risk-free , even though blood was tested for the Aids virus . |
| 11 | Though Mexico was putting its economy right — tight fiscal policy and structural reform cut inflation from 159% in 1987 to 20% in 1989 — huge financing needs blocked any real progress . |
| 12 | Experiences and perceptions of black clients differed , though mention was made of greater intelligence , more alienation , a greater tendency to plead not guilty , and to be ‘ excitable ’ or ‘ cocky ’ in court . |
| 13 | ‘ It sounds as though Wheeler was pursuing his old course of the row over the youth club at Narborough and trying to make out Paul 's part was more dishonourable than the Archdeacon and the Bishop said it was . |
| 14 | I think there were cases when he should of put it forward to Saunders , even though Saunders was playing poorly |
| 15 | Sometimes these were ad hominem arrangements-that in Kefe was dissolved after a year and that in Kutahya when the holder moved on to his next post , though Kutahya was recreated a mevleviyet in 989/1581 — but many of them had become permanent by the end of the century . |
| 16 | But though Orchomenos was favoured in the 447 arrangements , it was Thebes and Thebes alone who issued coinage ( an indication of political leadership within Boiotia ) from then till the King 's Peace of 386 . |
| 17 | Carey bobbed like jetsam , always awkward even though Ellwood was swimming with the tide . |
| 18 | In further discussion , it was suggested that , even though opinion was divided on the merits and on the question whether the abolition of the death penalty would in normal circumstances give rise to an increase in the number of murders , the Cabinet might be able to agree that this was not an appropriate moment at which to take the risk of abolishing the death penalty . |
| 19 | Even though immigration was controlled from the early 1960s , those immigrants and their families in the UK were entitled to remain . |
| 20 | All the Foreign Office ministers , headed by Lord Carrington , had to resign from the government , though Carrington was replaced by the hardly more resolute figure of Pym . |
| 21 | In the fitting rooms at Taylors she fussed and fretted over her creations like a mother hen and though Paula was overawed by the great designer she also liked her on sight . |
| 22 | She felt as though control was slipping away from her in some obscure way . |
| 23 | Wycliffe was getting nowhere , though Tate was answering his questions without protest and , apparently , without guile . |
| 24 | It is as though Lawrence was acknowledging that it is hard for human beings to say what they feel and that we often have to search for the form of words before we can find the words themselves . |
| 25 | It looked as though Finn was trying his hand at curves . |
| 26 | Once or twice Fen stopped , looking impatiently over his shoulder , but though Robbie was prepared with several incisive retorts , he said nothing . |
| 27 | It looks as though USL was valued at around $355m , up $30m from when they did the private placement 18 months ago . |
| 28 | It sounds as though Maurin was paying him to keep Barbara there and she was paying him to run errands — deliver the note to you and the photograph to Nice Matin — and to turn a blind eye when she went out . ’ |
| 29 | Even though the idea of community was so strong in the Pentateuch and even though society was organised along tribal lines , it is important to notice that property rights were not communal , they were private . |
| 30 | There was no way we could put TI money into the company , we could n't justify doing that to the shareholders because it looked to us as though BA was going to go under . |