Example sentences of "though [pron] [be] not a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got some power in this place , Dr. Briant , even though I 'm not a doctor or a great scientist ! |
| 2 | Mr Stanforth came from behind his desk to meet his visitor in person , and settle her with ceremony into the client 's chair , though she was not a client , had no need whatever of a solicitor , and had come here in response to his telephoned request chiefly out of pure curiosity , of which she had a woman 's proper share . |
| 3 | I always find it the reddest of the brilliant stars , though there is not a great deal of colour-difference between it and Betelgeux ; the name ‘ Antares ’ means ‘ the Rival of Ares ’ ( Mars ) . |
| 4 | He was of middle height , well built , possibly in his mid-forties ( though Jane was not much good on ages ) with dark curly hair and slanting eyes which gave him a slightly Slavonic look , though there was not a trace of accent in his speech . |
| 5 | Most of all , having chosen to live with a man , as a feminist , is the biggest challenge ; but being ‘ open ’ and ‘ communicative ’ I have tried to show him it is possible , though it 's not a ‘ doddle ’ as you can imagine . |
| 6 | Zapp wants the subject to be organized , systematic , objective , in a word — though it is not a word he uses — scientific . |
| 7 | These panels are likely to suffer from what has been called ‘ duty ’ listening or viewing in which a person feels he or she ought to , say , watch a television programme because there is a questionnaire for it , even though it is not a programme that person would ordinarily view at all . |
| 8 | ‘ Informal carers ’ is the term used in official documents to describe close supporting relatives though it is not a good term ‘ informal ’ implies that the task is done by choice in a rather casual fashion , which is rarely the case , and ‘ carer ’ implies an embracing emotional commitment which may be wholly inaccurate . |
| 9 | Lord Denning M.R. said that liability extends to a case where a ‘ third person prevents or hinders one party from performing his contract , even though it be not a breach . ’ |
| 10 | He hoped he at least sounded businesslike , as though it were not a private call , and realized immediately that Alexandra would refuse to take the call if she knew it was him . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps it would be wise to search you ? ’ he asks , almost politely , as though it were not a rhetorical question . |
| 12 | And it was in Paris that the Liszt-Thalberg rivalry began ( though it was not a thing of their own making , and there does not seem to have been any genuine animosity between them ) ; when they played in a contest in an aristocratic household Thalberg was declared the first pianist in the world and Liszt was thus deemed to have won on points , and it was said that Thalberg departed with his head hung low . |
| 13 | Though it was not a particularly good painting , as it happens , Ian had tried especially hard at it ; very hard in fact . |
| 14 | The sugar plantations and the slaves on them were the first British overseas investment of any size , at a time when investment of this sort was unusual , and in several eighteenth-century wars the British fought to defend this property , though it was not a central cause of any of the wars in which they were involved . |
| 15 | The counsellor said , weighing her words , ‘ Perhaps you are saying that you were right in your feeling , your sense that there was something going on , even though it was not an affair but a friendship . ’ |
| 16 | If a program is licensed by a publisher , the program author could be liable in negligence even though he is not a party to the licence agreement . |
| 17 | The 13-year-old pupil at Alsop High School then grabbed hold of Jade and pulled her to the side of the boat even though he is not a strong swimmer himself . |
| 18 | The Intelligence service was even prepared to give young Hans a second look , even though he was not a prepossessing sight . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , in 1806 , staying at the house of his friend Sir George Beaumont , Wordsworth began to go to church again , even though he was not a regular attender . |
| 20 | Subsection ( 2 ) is in wide terms , enabling the court to make an order against a person even though he was not a party to the transaction with the company : |
| 21 | It was particularly offensive to hear the Secretary of State talking about price increases in the gas industry before privatisation , as though he were not a member of a party and Government who decreed that gas prices had to rise arbitrarily , unilaterally and unnecessarily by 10 per cent . |