Example sentences of "though an " in BNC.
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| 1 | NIGEL MANSELL last night emerged the moral victor in his battle with the International Automobile Federation ( FIA ) even though an appeal court in Paris had not rescinded the decision to ban the Englishman from last Sunday 's Spanish Grand Prix . |
| 2 | The following morning the room looked as though an expedition had broken out in it , so we fought all the bits back into the sacs , smiled sweetly at the girl on reception and left . |
| 3 | It was as though an extraordinary story — a great mythology , with half-forgotten legends , languages and lore — had been unfolding in his head from the time he began to think ; and his appreciation of the Old Literature was at the deepest level imaginative and creative . |
| 4 | There is something puzzling here , since Mrs Moore , though an unbeliever , had been happy to have her own daughter confirmed , and there is a steady succession of references in Jack 's letters and diaries , during the years 1919–1931 , of attendance at church with Minto . |
| 5 | The song ‘ Here we go round the mulberry bush ’ reflects this ( though an alternative theory holds that a mulberry tree was often planted in prison exercise yards , and inmates recited the rhyme as they walked round it ) . |
| 6 | They are too small for that ; some have only one or two letting rooms ; they ca n't market themselves , though an English Tourist Board grading or a high ‘ Q ’ rating from the AA can help . |
| 7 | The Ombudsman , Sir Anthony Barrowclough , is telling MPs that the report is being finalised , though an early draft is believed to recommend that not all the investors should be compensated for the losses they suffered when the investment group crashed 18 months ago . |
| 8 | These are incorporated in UK export controls , though an Open General Export Licence allows then to be exported to other countries within the Australia Group . |
| 9 | Children are usually capable of organising their own games , though an eye needs to be kept on the isolate or child rejected by others . |
| 10 | When Mrs Thatcher announced her resignation it was as though an immovable institution had been overthrown . |
| 11 | Recently , SAVE has been to the rescue of a small but delightful Methodist chapel in a Lincolnshire village , to stop it being dismantled and shipped to the USA ; the Pavilion Theatre at Ryde on the Isle of Wight , which the local council had agreed to demolish ; and a popular Hampstead pub , Jack Straw 's Castle , which , though an important work by the architect Raymond Erith , the brewers wished to alter radically . |
| 12 | Though an individual pupil may be in his fourth-year class as far as the administration of the school goes , and as far as concerns his social activities or his out-of-school interests , the school must be prepared for him to go off and study the syllabus required for his graded tests alongside people who are not in his own year . |
| 13 | Those who oppose the ordination of women believe that God intends them to have a different role in the Church from men — though an equally valid one . |
| 14 | Of course , social security is only one aspect of the apparatus of government social policy and , equally , the Government is only one part , though an important one , of the overall social and economic processes whereby ageism has been embedded in twentieth-century Britain . |
| 15 | As for the shed , it was in reality the body from an old motor-van , for on the sides , even though an attempt had been made to obliterate it , was the legend , ‘ H. Martin and Sons , Mineral Water Manufacturers , Castle Street , Salisbury . ’ |
| 16 | Thatcher 's popularity soared to a record level , said the polls , though an inquiry into the Falklands mess was to be started . |
| 17 | Lawton had just appeared in what looked like an operating theatre , standing motionless in the corner as though an actual operation was in progress and he was an unwelcome intruder . |
| 18 | It was as though an aura of something evil was present , reaching out to him . |
| 19 | This is another world , ‘ At Whitsum the northern sky used to smoulder all night as though an arctic city were on fire ’ . |
| 20 | For example , though an access road might be designed to encourage speeds below 30 km/h , there is no law to prevent driving at 50 . |
| 21 | The Queen 's Advocate , Richard Morgan , noted in his diary upon the death of the interpreter at the Kalutara courts that ‘ he was a very worthy man , and , though an interpreter of a court , perfectly honest . ’ |
| 22 | Though an experienced skier , Pat and her friends had got caught in a blizzard and were making their way to shelter when Pat 's skis plunged into deep snow . |
| 23 | The ITGWU County Cork organizer , Hugh O'Callaghan , who had been a member of the workers ' delegation to the US Ambassador , responded that he was convinced that the project would go ahead , though an inquiry might help to quell current concern . |
| 24 | The Motor Vehicle ( Construction and Use ) Regulations generally impose an absolute liability even though an employer , as in this case , had no knowledge of the defect . |
| 25 | This is another world , ‘ At Whitsum the northern sky used to smoulder all night as though an arctic city were on fire ’ . |
| 26 | Lake Gatun , into which the ships pass on a due southerly track after leaving the Caribbean and easing through the first set of locks , is an immense inland lake — though an artificial one created by the damming of the Chagres River . |
| 27 | For the shorn hairs on the head of every initiate , and on any other hirsute parts of their bodies , prickled and stood on end , as though an electrifying ghost briefly shared their body-space with them . |
| 28 | On that occasion he had a special reason — though an odd one — for his refusal : he was fully occupied with the duty of defence which had been entrusted to him by the king . |
| 29 | The musicians lowered their instruments and stared into the concealing field where the rye seemed to move as though an invisible giant 's footsteps crushed it down . |
| 30 | Like other firms that have announced ACE boxes , there is no ACE operating system yet available for the box , though an early version of Microsoft 's NT will be available in June — the complete offering from December — with Unix System Labs ' SVR4 due at the beginning of 1993 . |