Example sentences of "though by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For non-Nazi , ‘ national-conservative ’ power-élites in the economy and in the army , Hitler 's ‘ charisma ’ had in itself never been a decisive factor , even though by the early 1930s it seems clear that substantial sectors of especially the ‘ intellectual élite ’ had succumbed in varying degrees to the Führer cult . |
| 2 | This doubt allowed the possibility of a claim by his rival , Matthew Stewart , earl of Lennox , even though by the rules of primogeniture Arran had the stronger case ; for he was descended from the son of James II 's daughter Mary , whereas Lennox was descended from her daughter . |
| 3 | For the first time , the Christian Democrat vote was less than 30 per cent for both Houses of Parliament — though by the vagaries of the complex system of distributing seats it looked as if the alliance might get a majority in the lower house , the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 4 | Inevitably less time could be spent by the researchers in doing this on behalf of the control samples ; though by the time of the second and third assessments , the circumstances of , and services received by both action and control sample members were well known both to researchers and development officers . |
| 5 | Children do not appear on memorial brasses until the 1420s , though by the 1450s they were a regular occurrence . |
| 6 | The laying-out and washing of a corpse , the ‘ dressing and trimming ’ as it was known , might have been performed by a member of the family , though by the early seventeenth century it was more usual , both in town and country , for this service to be provided by the coffin-maker . |
| 7 | Tinnion grew up in Switzerland , though by the mid-30s ( when the body of this book is set ) he has moved to London , where he is enmeshed in an adulterous affair . |
| 8 | I felt at peace with the world , even though by the summer of 1939 Europe seemed to be drifting closer to war and everyone was glued to the BBC short-wave Overseas Service bulletins , or even devouring month-old copies of The Times which had been airmailed to Australia and sent on by ship , together with the Illustrated London News , Tatler , and particular titles ordered by the expatriates . |
| 9 | Their joint commissions reached well over a hundred , and though by the time the Dolls ' House was created , Miss Jekyll was nearly eighty and practically blind , being asked to design the garden gave her immense satisfaction , and has left us with an unaltered glimpse of this period of England 's gardening history . |
| 10 | When Grace Archer died on BBC radio in 1955 , some twenty million people , it is said — perhaps half the adult nation — tuned in to hear , though by the 1980s television had reduced the audience for radio soap to a mere three million . |
| 11 | The state remained reluctant to initiate legislation to enforce morality , though by the 1880s it was clearly responsive to its perception of public pressure . |
| 12 | Cocky young pup though by the look of him . " |
| 13 | The difficulty of interpreting such information is highlighted though by the fact that this educated elite , two-thirds of whom had been to public schools and universities , chose as their leader a man who had been to neither . |
| 14 | The debt was written off in a long , slow reckoning of my own , though by the time I reached my mid-teens I already had a certainty of the future waiting — a void to be filled as I chose , with nothing predetermined . |
| 15 | With the laity , the clergy suffered from the levying of purveyances in the early years of the war , even though by the statute of Westminster of 1275 , confirmed in 1309 and 1316 , they had been exempted from this obligation . |
| 16 | New towns have continued to appear , though by the late nineteenth century novel concepts of housing produced very different layouts and appearance , best seen at , for example , Letchworth , the first garden city in 1903 , and later at Welwyn Garden City in 1920 . |
| 17 | Works on comparative anatomy continued this tradition , though by the nineteenth century there was more caution about using mankind . |
| 18 | The German professor was a powerful figure , hiring and firing his assistants and doing his best to place his favourite students , though by the end of the century this was becoming more difficult . |
| 19 | Unorthodox clergy could be disciplined , though by the 1860s the process was unedifying to most people and was also liable to overturn by the secular courts . |
| 20 | To make a profession out of psychical research was hardly possible , even though by the 1880s there were career structures in more-established sciences . |
| 21 | She was near the east bank of the River , five hundred paces south of the town , lying on a flat white rock where the crocodiles could not get her , though by the time she was discovered by a Medjay patrol at the sixth hour of day when the sun was at its highest , the vultures had eaten her eyes and part of her face , and the flies were so glutted that they could not leave the feast unless they were picked off . |
| 22 | The birthplace of this new industry was Chicago , and Chicago is still the global centre of the financial futures and options industry , though by the 1990s virtually all respectable financial centres have local access to at least one derivative assets exchange . |
| 23 | Rich Americans , of course , whether healthy or ill — or more precisely their wives and daughters — made tracks for the centres of European culture , though by the end of our period the millionaires were already beginning to establish their pattern of summer residence in custom-built Xanadus along the stern coasts of New England . |
| 24 | In Brazil , there came a romanticism of Indian life , though by the time of the establishment of the Republic in 1889 , they had few rights and the rubber boom brought entrepreneurs to the uppermost headwaters of the Amazon followed by railways and telegraph lines . |