Example sentences of "though they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mixed exhibitions tend to have rather perfunctory introductions and catalogue entries ; the same is often true of exhibitions arranged by groups of artists , though they may have statements of aim or even an artists ' manifesto . |
| 2 | The shortest stories in Greyhound for Breakfast owe a lot to Kafka 's briefer parables , though they are apt to be more difficult to understand ; and there can be no doubt that Beckett 's solipsistic tramps have left an impression on the earlier writings . |
| 3 | Fees set by each drama school do differ slightly , though they can be considered basically similar . |
| 4 | In the ensuing debate , Alan Shatter , TD of Fine Gael , author of a book on family law , pointed out the better provision being made under the projected divorce law for a first wife than existed at present , and that children of the first marriage would maintain their present rights , though they would have to share with children of the second marriage . |
| 5 | It draws its membership from across the spectrum of religious and non-religious groupings , though they are generally middle-class and mostly committed Christians . |
| 6 | On the other hand , he wrote , there are people like Goldberg , like Moss and McGrindle , who believe in nothing , except perhaps in personal power and glory , though they would like to believe in something ‘ higher ’ . |
| 7 | Even those who had never heard of him mouthed his words , repeating them to others as though they had just thought of them themselves , which perhaps they had , for there is surely such a thing as a spirit of the times . |
| 8 | ( Yet beauty of glass is that the story it tells is that the parts can not cohere , can not form a whole , even though they would like to . ) |
| 9 | Ruddles , once a proud independent , now owned by Watneys , promotes its processed beers as though they have the support of CAMRA . |
| 10 | Good though they are , the recipes are not central to the value of this book in the way they are to Jane Grigson 's fruit book . |
| 11 | It is as though they are unable to change their minds and this is a very dangerous trait in a glider pilot . |
| 12 | If full airbrakes are needed for more than a few seconds , and it looks as though they should be kept on , sideslipping should be used to get rid of the excess height so that for the last part of the approach less than full airbrake approach is required . |
| 13 | I have flown with a number of people who , with the slightest lowering of the nose or the gentlest stall , look as though they are having an epileptic fit . |
| 14 | there is a consistent air of frustration in the writings of some of the social scientist contributors … it is almost as though they wish they were in closer touch with the operational side of the service . |
| 15 | It was often difficult to dislike the gentle , painted hippies , even though they subscribed to a strange new communal , non-hierarchic lifestyle incorporating the unlawful use of ‘ dope ’ . |
| 16 | Of course not all policemen are in absolute positions of command even though they represent the maintenance of structure in more than a symbolic way ; and few can move into communitas to experience the temptations described above . |
| 17 | Front leg kicks travel the shortest distance , though they are regarded generally as too weak to score . |
| 18 | Jean 's black curly hair Hew out as they swung round and her cheeks , always so ripe that they looked as though they would bleed at the touch of a straw , reddened more richly than ever . |
| 19 | The low lands were patched with hayfields at every stage of readiness , from bleached yellow to ferny green , and across the coloured surfaces people moved as though they were stitching and knitting at its texture , arms pulling on rakes , backs stooped under burdens on their way to the steadings . |
| 20 | He was looking at them as though they were ill or crazed . |
| 21 | The gentle mists draped over their moment of failure , when impetus ran down , as though they had no goal ahead of them . |
| 22 | Godfrey always complained about her though they split up a year ago . |
| 23 | For Aristotle , forms are in objects and are themselves particular , though they are by their nature potentially universal , becoming actually so when they are apprehended by the intellect . |
| 24 | In particular there is the intriguing finding that some amnesics can learn certain new skills as quickly as normal subjects , even though they are often unable to remember the circumstances in which they learnt them . |
| 25 | Soon all who were following me were leading me so the chances were that they were not following me though they could still be following me by leading me and then waiting around to ambush etcetera etcetera ; but of course not . |
| 26 | Designs composed of small masses of veneer forming a readable ‘ picture ’ , correspond roughly in looks , if not in colour , to subjects as they actually appear to the eye ; they seem to be in 3D even though they are flat , and to a degree they are naturalistic . |
| 27 | Though they can be used with a mallet , the Cogelow tools invite slicing and paring , and are especially useful for ornamental work |
| 28 | The grouping formalised the situation by creating four essentially geographically based companies , even though they did stray into one another 's territories . |
| 29 | They do this even though they may break the conventions from time to time . |
| 30 | Their movements must , therefore , have literal implications even though they use the flowing romantic style originated by Taglioni and Perrot in La Sylphide and Giselle . |