Example sentences of "though [art] " in BNC.

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1 In this way your gift to ACET will qualify for Gift Aid relief even though the monthly payments would be too small to do so .
2 Art is after all the subject of attention for both critic and historian , even though the functions and methods of the two sorts of writer have drawn apart .
3 Raphael 's materials are generally borrowed , though the noble structure is his own .
4 A characteristic two pages of the text are given to Corot 's landscapes , five pictures being cited , though the reader is less fortunate than the lecture audience , as only two are illustrated .
5 Animals make up a category of painting with an uneven reputation , though the theme is one of obvious importance and interest in sculpture .
6 It is in this arena that some of the fiercest intellectual fighting about art is taking place , though the contests range wider than the visual arts to politics and economics .
7 This will result in the book evading the task of art criticism altogether , though the critical views of the artist may be recorded .
8 Even though the same might be argued for painting , the technical obstacles to be overcome for painting are very much less than for sculpture .
9 The influence of an international market is not easy to be precise about , though the appearance of work in a Biennale or an art fair can be impressive in itself .
10 The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books .
11 The speech is short but very telling and can be effective in a solo audition , even though the actual scene does involve other characters .
12 This is a straight comedy speech ( though the character does not find herself funny ) .
13 We have problems on British television because our theatrical tradition gets in the way , so-that characters talk too much , as though the medium is only half way from the stage .
14 Though the republicans lost the war , they eventually won their case with their successful introduction of the republican constitution of 1937 .
15 Even though the gap between clerical and lay religious intellectuals has closed , with clergy being left behind in some areas , the clerics remain the true cognoscenti in religious matters , and are expected to be so by the laity .
16 In terms of the Irish catholic — nationalist context today , pietism and authoritarianism have tended to structure the religion of the people to a significant extent , though the numbers subscribing to its world view appear to be declining .
17 Though the case is complex and the minister has joined the Anglican communion , the elements of the case at the time are quite significant .
18 Though the extent to which such a consciousness exists is not clear , one aspect of it is beyond dispute : 35 per cent of McGreil 's random sample of Dubliners and 46 per cent of the males in the sample , including a spread from the younger age groups and the more educated , supported the view that ‘ the use of violence , while regrettable , has been necessary for the achievement of non-Unionist rights ’ ( Mác Gréil 1977 : 387 ) .
19 The article now left the way open for the full expression of the teaching of Pius XI that , though the family had ‘ priority of nature and therefore of rights over civil society ’ , education belonged ‘ preeminently to the Church , by reason of a double title in the supernatural order , conferred exclusively upon her by God himself ; absolutely superior therefore to any other title in the natural order ’ ( 1929 : 5–6 ) .
20 Though the Cosgrave government then in power insisted on the appointment , the local population and authorities boycotted the operation of the library , and the government had to concede by moving the librarian elsewhere .
21 Though the coalition government were allowing their TDs — the Irish equivalent for MPs — a free vote on the issue , its parties , Fine Gael and Labour , officially sponsored the campaign for the constitutional change .
22 In it they asserted quite clearly that permitting divorce would certainly affect the stability of all Irish marriages because it rendered every Irish marriage dissoluble : ‘ It is as though the legal availability of divorce builds up a social pressure which , for large numbers of people , becomes stronger than moral or religious resistance ’ ( abridged version , Irish Times , 14 May 1986 ) .
23 The implementation of this policy was the work in part of the new Roman episcopal appointees , from Cullen onwards , though the growing hatred of the ascendancy because of the famine and their continued landownership must have provided ample cause for separate schools for the majority of Roman catholic clergy .
24 But where other churches have owned their own schools , as does the Church of Ireland in the South , a similar position has been adopted , though the reasons for the position have been on different grounds .
25 It was neither pleasant nor unpleasant , though the endless peeing , he wrote , the endless getting up in the middle of the night when the ice clung to the windowpanes and the taps were frozen , that was more unpleasant than pleasant , but it was not that , he wrote , these things - will not change , my bladder will not improve and next winter the ice will still cling to the panes and the taps will still freeze , but I will not notice them .
26 Yet each to be written and spoken as though the last .
27 Why we feel comfortable with such art , however grotesque , whereas the greatest art always leaves us a little bit uncomfortable , as though the earth we stood on had given a sudden lurch .
28 Even though the nose has been lowered well below the horizon , a glider takes time to regain speed , and any attempt to turn off immediately results in a potential stall and spin accident .
29 These tend to rot in the sun and though the treads might be as good as new , they will have to be changed because of the cracks in the walls .
30 The instructor may have been wondering if the height was going to be sufficient for a normal approach even though the student had already cut out the base leg to make a 180° turn on to finals .
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