Example sentences of "is [conj] though [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second point is that though everyone subscribes to the principle that voluntary organisations should be included in Joint planning , the principle is often executed in fairly ad hoc ways . |
| 2 | It is as though one has to find and engage the kind of gear which will allow communication that day , recognising good days and bad . |
| 3 | It is as though one has a newspaper delivered only for the football results on Saturdays and assumes that nothing at all happened on the other days of the week . |
| 4 | It is as though they are unable to change their minds and this is a very dangerous trait in a glider pilot . |
| 5 | Children between eight and twelve seem too young to fight against cultural racism in school ; it is as though they are almost stunned into accepting the inferiority with which white society has labelled them . |
| 6 | It is as though they could not wait to sink into a dotage spent in permanent contemplation of their childhood . |
| 7 | It is as though they are exchanging blows . |
| 8 | It is as though they are saying ‘ Look at us , we are not like others because we even adopted a black child . ’ |
| 9 | It is as though they were not fighting each other but some phantom German army . |
| 10 | It is as though we have reached a plane beyond normal feelings . |
| 11 | It is as though we can not reach an expression that is midway between total holding in and violent , destructive rage . |
| 12 | It is as though we had to talk in order to reassure ourselves that we were living . |
| 13 | It is as though we were to speak of dogs , lions , weasels , bears , hyenas , pandas and otters all in one breath , just because they are all carnivores . |
| 14 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 15 | ( At a meeting I attended recently about Salman Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses someone said , ‘ You do not understand how we have been insulted ; it is as though someone had raped my daughter . ’ |
| 16 | What are the names of your children ? ’ ) , or night comes so abruptly it is as though someone has pulled down a blind . |
| 17 | It is as though someone has swung an invisible sandbag at the rod , it curves over so fast and far , and so suddenly . |
| 18 | As the customer moves into any one or more of these states , it is as though his record on the customer database is marked with special flags . |
| 19 | It is as though she was deliberately coaxed into that warm and shabby coffee bar by whatever saving force or spirit I can feel ever more strongly in this no longer quite so bleak habitation of mine . |
| 20 | But it is as though she has had to start from square one . |
| 21 | It is as though she had not died but been transformed . |
| 22 | SHOTESHAM IS unaltered ; it is as though it were built yesterday . |
| 23 | It is as though there were a secret passage underneath the knife-edge . |
| 24 | It is as though I have spent those motionless hours on her sofa in the hands of a hairdresser , hypnotist and clairvoyant combined . |
| 25 | It is as though I have left the dull class rooms of the world and the discordant sound of the trampling feet and I have reached a place far from men where my mind is moved by universal rhythms . |
| 26 | Edward thought : It is as though I were adrift , untethered . |
| 27 | It is as though I 've burped during Evensong . |
| 28 | It is as though you are drugged and have ceased to care . |
| 29 | It is as though you see the world through a glass wall ; everybody is there doing their usual things but there is no connection with you at all . |
| 30 | It is as though you are carrying the work of the day with you . |