Example sentences of "though it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though it must be remembered that this is no a priori scheme imposed upon the appearances , but rather an interpretation gradually distilled from them by prolonged contemplation . |
| 2 | Some see the conflict as having been crystallised by Proust , who wrote an attack on the critic Sainte-Beuve in 1908 ( though it was not published until 1954 ) . |
| 3 | We do not know her name , though it is unlikely that the sculptor did not have a model . |
| 4 | Secondly , the formal analysis which is second nature to a Western critic can be fruitful , even though it could be argued that this is a way of interpreting the objects of an unfamiliar culture rather than a description . |
| 5 | A piece of oral history may be meant to do without a presiding historian in much the same way in which an analytic session may be meant to do without a presiding analyst ; theoretical presuppositions are subject in each case to a show of suspension , though it is clear that the theories of Freud and others will be present in the consulting-room , and that oral historians may be sympathetic to socialism and to the methods of Marxist historiography . |
| 6 | There 's like this sort of disease , but no one mentions it ; everyone behaves as though it 's normal , y' know inevitable that there 's vandalism an , violence an , houses burnt out an' wrecked by the people they were built for . |
| 7 | For movement and dance , the Pineapple Studios in the same part of town seems to be one of the best there is , though it is not intended primarily for dancers and actors — people from all sorts of professions come along to keep fit . |
| 8 | The power of the element of statehood among the dominant beliefs appears to have been sufficient to neutralize the provisional movement in the South , even though it was severely tested by the event of Bloody Sunday in 1972 , when thirteen demonstrators were killed by British soldiers in Derry , and by the provisional hunger strikes of 1981 . |
| 9 | The state has no role in the appointment of bishops and the juridical processes of church and state are kept entirely separate , though it will be seen that a number of administrative procedures reflect a direct link . |
| 10 | It is just because whatever one has planned is bound to change as one proceeds that it is fatal to start too soon or too late , though it may be no less fatal , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , to start at the right time , for then there is no excuse , no excuse whatsoever . |
| 11 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 12 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 13 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |
| 14 | Though it has to be said , he wrote , and Goldberg , his eye racing down the page covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , paused to sip from the glass of fresh orange-juice at his side , wiped his forehead and went on typing , it has to be said that I have occasionally had the illusion that I knew what step to take first and even , occasionally , what step to take second , I will not talk about a third . |
| 15 | Though it is never possible to be sure one is doing the right thing , he wrote . |
| 16 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 17 | Yet our art persists in trying to render the world as though it were here , now , available , he wrote . |
| 18 | Almost as though it had all happened in another life . |
| 19 | When it is done , he wrote , it should look as though it had always been there . |
| 20 | Until then beer was dark in colour , though it was considerably stronger than the milds consumed today . |
| 21 | The owner of ‘ The Hollybush ’ at Elstree proposed to infill an original coach arch in the pub 's facade and to demolish the timber framed side walls of the passageway behind in order to form a larger and open interior , even though it was this feature that distinguished the building as an historic inn . |
| 22 | La Fenière does n't have a Michelin star , though it rates 16/20 in the Gault & Millau guide . |
| 23 | We 're agreed , I think , that , ghastly though it is , there 's nothing we can do for that poor girl at the moment , and that Rita can go on for her . |
| 24 | Though it might be fanciful to assert that this passage heralds the arrival of Hercule Poirot on the literary scene , it is clear that the Digression prepares the way for the development of the whodunnit form , and particularly of the private detective , ‘ the righteous unraveller ’ , whose task it will be to solve the murder . |
| 25 | For one thing , I was extremely lucky in that the winter during which I was homeless was apparently the mildest this country has had for twenty years ( though it was quite cold enough for me ) and that was by no means the only remarkable piece of good fortune that I had . |
| 26 | ‘ I think a part of me probably died when I took your job , though it may have been just the settling-down thing . |
| 27 | Though it hardly seems possible , spring-flowering bulbs are on sale again , and if we want to bring some winter cheer to the home we should be planting them now . |
| 28 | Though it may snack on a strawberry , the ground beetle is an ally |
| 29 | Surprising though it may seem , although it is now well established that this is a serious problem with gliding , it is almost unknown in power flying circles or in the Air Force and it is taking many years to convince authorities . |
| 30 | I was told on more than one occasion , that I should not really let outsiders see this sort of thing , even though it was agreed that what I had written was an accurate analysis of events . |