Example sentences of "though at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A combination boiler provides both heating and a continuous supply of hot water ( though at a slower flow than from a hot water cylinder ) . |
| 2 | In broad terms , our membership of the European Economic Community was likely to quicken the pace of technical and economic change in the industry , thereby causing a further contraction of the labour force and a further substitution of capital for labour , though at a slower rate than in the previous decade . |
| 3 | For the decade 1975–84 , the OECD ( Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ) reported for the UK a decrease in total manufacturing output of 4.3 per cent , while virtually all the other major industrial nations increased their output ( though at a lower rate than before 1975 ) — Japan by 61.4 per cent , the USA by 41.6 per cent , Italy by 22.1 per cent , and West Germany by 16.0 per cent . |
| 4 | After the death of old Daniel , the five year lease was carried on by old Smythe who renewed it for a further term of two years though at a lower rental . |
| 5 | A colour inkjet printer can display eight colours at one dot per screen pixel , though the dithering technique described earlier can be employed to extend the range to 125 colours , though at a lower resolution . |
| 6 | Their biomass totals 22.9 kg per ha , 73% of arboreal mammal biomass on Barro Colorado Island and they crop 38 kg leaves per ha per annum ( 40–60% of their diet ) , whereas the howlers take 52.8 kg , reflecting their higher metabolic rates and less ruminant-like digestion : they are therefore less efficient , even though at a lower density and biomass and with a smaller percentage of leaves in their diet . |
| 7 | They illustrate how the DES is concerned with all aspects of education , though at a broad , policy-making level ; the administration of most of the areas is at present the responsibility of the LEAs . |
| 8 | Beaucens , which is almost exactly facing Saint-Savin on this eastern slope , though at a lesser altitude , has the ideally romantic ruins of an old towered castle plus keep , where the local chieftains , the viscounts of Lavedan , lived in the days of their prosperity . |
| 9 | The manoeuvre succeeded , though at a dreadful cost . |
| 10 | The manoeuvre succeeded , though at a dreadful cost . |
| 11 | If Aethelwald and Aethelred do represent a revival of Deiran royalty , it may be no coincidence that Archbishop Aethelberht ( though at an unspecified date ) constructed a new great altar in the minster at York on the spot where Eadwine was said to have been baptized . |
| 12 | The pursuers were keeping up as best they could but held little hope of catching him , though at the first fence on the second circuit — the seventeenth in the race — Red Rum could be seen to be keeping on gamely . |
| 13 | Inflation and the budgetary deficit have been reduced , though at the usual price of increased unemployment and the decline of local enterprises . |
| 14 | Not only were other Sussex towns strongly characterised by the number of £2 assessments , usually on goods , but Bury St Edmunds and Newbury , also county centres , had a smaller proportion of people at the bottom of the heap than their immediate neighbourhoods , though at the latter , the suburban hamlet of Speenhamland was crowded with poor . |
| 15 | It has been suggested that the Arab ‘ test ’ referred to Ludwig 's star , though at the present time it is far below naked-eye visibility . |
| 16 | On the subject of Curtis Cup selection , she says : ‘ Oh , that 's a long way off , ’ though at the present rate of progress , it may not be as distant a prospect as she thinks . |
| 17 | Beads of blood appeared along the cuts , which alarmed me , though at the same time I could see that the wounds were superficial . |
| 18 | When she signed her first big contract , Marilyn reputedly said , ‘ That 's the last cock I 'll have to suck ’ , though at the same time she seemed to be looking around for greater conquests . |
| 19 | Tiger Watson was wounded ; Donald Roy killing his friend 's attacker , for this was a personal battle of man against man in the shadows , even though at the same time there was the impersonal hammer from machine-guns and 20mm cannons firing from beyond the basin and its locks . |
| 20 | He was pretending that the errand was a nuisance , though at the same time he was grinning with pleasure at the thought of taking McIllvanney 's brand new sportsboat to sea . |
| 21 | The Greeks found this agnostic approach yielded a sense of presence and bliss that transfigured their lives : it gave them the discipline to apprehend a reality infinitely greater than they could conceive , even though at the same time its absence was acutely felt . |
| 22 | Hank was delighted , though at the same time a little suspicious of his father 's prompt response to his friendly overture . |
| 23 | He hated other people 's leaving him for bed , and when he saw a hard mood ahead he often took a sleeping pill at supper to stop himself from being clamorous , though at the same time he found his terror about the end of a day daft in a creature who was surely intended by build to signify immortal fun . |
| 24 | As such , the ethnic minorities represent a major demographic strength for parts of urban Britain , though at the same time their presence may have hastened the exodus of better-off whites and certainly gives rise to a very difficult set of policy issues ( Chapter 8 ) . |
| 25 | Later manufacturers such as Matthew Boulton entered the ranks , though at the same time being himself , through his close involvement with Cornish mining , an account holder with Elliot and Praed of Truro , whose rise and activities were closely linked to that industry . |
| 26 | Rather than risk losing its MFN position , the Chinese government has clearly thought it expedient to make a good-will gesture to the new Clinton administration , ( though at the same time appending warnings that outsiders should stop interfering in China 's internal affairs . ) |
| 27 | Though at the very beginning of his political ‘ career ’ , Hitler had emphasized the need for anti-Semitism derived from ‘ reason ’ , not pure ‘ emotion ’ , there were — as is well known — no measures in the ‘ Jewish Question ’ which were too extreme for him , except on occasions where tactical considerations prevailed . |
| 28 | So it looks as though at the very beginning of the 1830s , trade unionism was already disposed to settle into the primary role which it was fully and consciously to adopt later in the century , a role which would be ameliorative rather than revolutionary . |