Example sentences of "though it did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Graham led a lovely rib , slabby and clean , though it did n't test our mettle too severely . |
| 2 | Also contrary to the speculations of media sociologists , television not only failed to determine what the electorate thought , it also failed to determine what they thought about , though it did communicate to the electorate what the parties were fighting about . |
| 3 | In the true spirit of liberal compromise , the eps league combines both these measures , leaving LLoyds Abbey Life the winner even though it did not top either individual table . |
| 4 | Though it did not appear until relatively late in his life , Locke had been working on the Essay since about 1660 . |
| 5 | Drink never loosened his tongue , though it did have an effect on his sizable nose which , like Bardolph 's , was a beacon in the dark . |
| 6 | In literature I was going to offer both British and American authors , both prose and poetry , so that was no problem , though it did mean that I should have to read authors I disliked — Conrad , Hemingway , Woolf , Graham Greene , C.P. Snow — but I leavened this stodgy bunch with those I felt more in sympathy with , though they were not officially on the syllabus — Waugh , Firbank and Forster at their head . |
| 7 | I hardly knew how I was able to face it , either then or at any other time of my life in this mocking world , but I did , though it did not seem to me that I was in any way heroic — just the opposite , in fact . |
| 8 | But the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War resulted in the 1936 Labour Party Conference at Edinburgh support collective security , though it did not approve of rearmament . |
| 9 | Perhaps the boat with the most character — even though it did not make the final selection — was the PDQ ; an amateur effort that can be built at home from cheap parts . |
| 10 | One derivative , later named methisazone , attracted interest because it was shown in clinical trials in Madras , in 1963 , to prevent people exposed to smallpox during an epidemic from developing the disease , even though it did not hasten recovery once the disease had developed . |
| 11 | There is a tradition that the cattle of eastern England have Scandinavian origins , but the West of England influence was strong and during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Devon blood was widely used in Norfolk ( especially , of course , by Coke of Holkham and his tenants ) , though it did not necessarily have a direct influence on the future Red Poll . |
| 12 | Then the roof of the grotto glowed two times lighting the water and the company a little , nothing was to be seen of the keeper or his coffin , as though it did not happen . |
| 13 | The shell only needed to hit one of the skaters — though it did indeed need to strike a target and not be wasted , as might easily be the case when fired seemingly without aiming . |
| 14 | ‘ Though it did n't seem to surprise you . |
| 15 | Its justification was primarily military — a guarantee of aid in the face of any future German aggression and , for Britain , the beginnings of an alliance against the Soviet Union — though it did provide for bilateral economic assistance and cooperation , and , indeed , a standing economic committee was established . |
| 16 | That indeed was the case , with the appearance of another loose intergovernmental structure , a Conference of European Ministers of Transport , which could only suggest and advise — though it did have some success in persuading ten states to sign a convention on cooperation and coordination of their rail networks in 1953 . |
| 17 | Though it did not take place in a laboratory , the study by Atkinson et al . |
| 18 | The word dyslexia became a familiar label even though it did not in itself provide miraculous remedies for learning difficulties . |
| 19 | The committee 's general ambivalence probably reflected its membership though it did admit that recent investigations suggested that to some extent investment was going abroad because of the unfavourable economic environment at home . |
| 20 | A study of different ways to burn up plutonium by America 's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory came out against such clevernesses , at least as far as using up America 's surplus plutonium is concerned ( though it did recommend more research into a few ) . |
| 21 | Such a project was tried in Wales and though it did identify cases , logistical difficulties in community health care made the rate of detection unacceptably low . |
| 22 | Though it did n't leave any physical signs , ‘ it did untold damage , ’ says Homer . |
| 23 | The lease had been assigned and the relationship as between the original lessee and the assignee was also discussed , though it did not play a very prominent part in the case . |
| 24 | Until recently it was assumed that this was the final signal concerning the Cossacks before the repatriations actually began , giving Eighth Army 's authorization for those Cossacks who were Soviet citizens to be handed over , even though it did not explicitly set aside AFHQ 's previous ruling that " force has not , repeat not , to be used " . |
| 25 | In this it had little success , though it did cause some alarm to the authorities and to shipowners , some of whom recognised that accumulated benefits could be an effective way of retaining membership . |
| 26 | She had once told Stephanie , whom she trusted , though it did not come easily to her to make confidences to her daughters , that she was possessed by physical loathing of Lucas Simmonds and of what contact — she was not specific — he might have had with her son . |
| 27 | Hardly then , though it did cross Frederica 's mind that sex inhibited talk and that to be talked to by Alexander was a pleasure not readily to be forgone . |
| 28 | The price war of autumn 1985 then was little more than an advertising exercise , though it did reduce the general price of holidays for 1986 . |
| 29 | Benny relaxed in relief , though it did n't show in the slightest . |
| 30 | made trade unions completely immune from actions in tort , though it did not affect liability of individuals ; |