Example sentences of "though [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door opened straight into a cool wood-panelled living-room , which , though furnished with the most beautiful antiques , was comfortable and homely . |
| 2 | Appropriately for a drama in which the grossest crimes , though intended , turn out to be apparent rather than real , her chaffing in riddles of Bertram and the King in the final scene is a marvellous mix of the pointedly cutting and the teasingly playful . |
| 3 | Though intended primarily for adults , the advice held good for young refugees . |
| 4 | Though intended for artists , these will find a wider market as outdoor equipment . |
| 5 | Public opinion , though skewed to the right on many issues , has not moved further right between 1979 and 1989 , and may actually have moved in a contrary direction . |
| 6 | Though registered as Oliver , he was christened Richard , and called Dick by his intimates . |
| 7 | He frowned as though irritated . |
| 8 | Moreover , the important , though limited , concessions to the unions which Neil Kinnock has now made , are based on the false premise that current legislation is unbalanced and unfair and renders effective strike action impossible . |
| 9 | For example even a small camping park can proudly display a Q with ✓✓✓✓✓ if what it offers , though limited in range , is of an exceptionally high standard . |
| 10 | Haig had one compelling argument in favour of attack — the decisive , though limited , victory at Messines , although the credit for that was rightly ascribed almost entirely to General Sir Herbert Plumer . |
| 11 | Sun also believes it has a lucrative , though limited , opportunity in the PC market , because machines equipped with both Pentium and NT will not be available until late 1993 . |
| 12 | Circular 8/81 noted that ‘ although the Community Land Act is repealed , authorities still have a valuable , though limited , role to play in ensuring that land is brought forward for private development . |
| 13 | In some respects that was a real , though limited , guarantee . |
| 14 | A levels , then , though relied upon at present as a higher education aptitude test , and regarded by many schools and many parents as a test of the academic respectability of schools themselves , are not wholly satisfactory for either of these purposes . |
| 15 | The second daughter had died in childhood ; the fifth and sixth princesses , still children , were virtual prisoners of Horemheb in the royal palace of the Southern Capital , together with their aunt Nezemmut , Nefertiti 's younger sister ; and though treated with all the deference their rank demanded , they were never allowed anywhere unattended by a corps of Horemheb 's own men . |
| 16 | Tall , he suffered the sunken chest of a consumptive , and had a hooked nose and eyes that , though hidden behind dark lids , were too big for his face — it was the starving poet look that enslaved self-sacrificial women . |
| 17 | Though hidden from view , poverty is increasing due to homelessness , lack of low-cost housing , inadequate public transport , the decline in farming , and disappearing facilities . |
| 18 | Iain Logan had been listening to him as though fascinated by the stress of experience which had lengthened Cameron 's face and closed his black brows over his eyes . |
| 19 | In fact , to Lisa 's relief and surprise , her reception from her new workmates was fairly friendly — though tinged with that nervous wariness that always greeted a new broom . |
| 20 | His English was very good , though tinged with a pronounced French accent . |
| 21 | For example , her most recent work involves a positive distancing — intimate objects as though shaken from the photographs appear in glass shoe boxes ready for inspection or classification . |
| 22 | Violent abuse , death threats , bomb warnings and evangelical types were also far more common on the phones then , though received Switchboard wisdom says that 's because they have more trouble getting through now and tend to get discouraged and give up quicker than genuine callers . |
| 23 | Though received in the case before it , Danckwerts LJ said that the submission of such a document was ‘ wholly irregular and contrary to the practice of the court and … should not be allowed as a precedent for future proceedings ’ ( Rondel v. |
| 24 | Though racked with pain she was still capable of balanced judgment . |
| 25 | It lifted its shoulders slightly , or dropped its head a little , as though frightened of being struck if its supposition was wrong . |
| 26 | However , though honoured , especially in his native France , his discoveries were not immediately applicable and his contemporary influence therefore less than that of his fellow-countryman Louis Pasteur , who became , with Darwin , perhaps the mid-nineteenth-century scientist most widely known to the general public . |
| 27 | In his latter years , though plagued by failing eyesight , he gave considerable practical encouragement to the Oxford ‘ methodists ’ , whose predilection for preaching and catechizing accorded fully with his own . |
| 28 | The cost of so doing , though justified in this test case , illustrated the impossible odds facing planning authorities and voluntary bodies wanting to challenge the tenuous evidence on which so many IDOs are based . |
| 29 | His paintings are gentle , as though painted under water . |
| 30 | But as soon as the stoat got into the wind and the rabbit scented it , the rabbit set up a shriek and remained as though paralysed . |