Example sentences of "though [pron] be not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally , it just looks as though someone 's not going to turn up because for one reason or another they 've been held up . |
| 2 | The night is black and there are no streetlights , and I feel as though I am not driving on a road at all , but forcing my way through clotted bushes . |
| 3 | It turns out ( though I am not going to prove it here ) that the v ( x , y ) = constant curves are orthogonal trajectories of the u ( x , y ) = constant curves . |
| 4 | Bill Reynolds runs an organic farm in Somerset and makes arguably — though I 'm not arguing — the best bacon in England . |
| 5 | B : ‘ I feel as though I 'm not doing my duty as a father . |
| 6 | I I feel as though I 'm not doing anything useful . |
| 7 | Someone like Northside or The Mondays , though I 'm not knocking ‘ em , they 're more about grooves . ’ |
| 8 | Muriel is perhaps this author 's most disagreeable character , though she is not seen without pity . |
| 9 | any more any more trouble even though she 's not getting into bad trouble as such it 's going off and coming home |
| 10 | Liz McColgan was allowed to run in the 3,000 metres in the UK Championships the previous weekend even though she was not entered . |
| 11 | Thus , when she was hosting a major fashion show in Paris , featuring the best British designers , she invited Laura to attend , even though she was not showing Ashley clothes . |
| 12 | The blood on my face was not mine — though she was not to know this . |
| 13 | Her name came up now and again in succeeding chapters , though she was not allowed to have played a significant part in his life . |
| 14 | I notice that even when you are simply listening to music on tape or watching it on the TV monitor when you are editing you are still breathing with the music even though you are not conducting it . |
| 15 | Even though you are not swinging fully , you want the action to feel positive , so eliminate any hand action . |
| 16 | Practise applying your make-up so that it looks as though you 're not wearing any at all — it 's a real art , but it can be done ! |
| 17 | ‘ We are travellers , and though we are not lost in the true sense of the word , we perhaps lack direction . ’ |
| 18 | Here , too , though we are not looking to carve up the territory between us a degree of competition never does any harm we should at least be getting together to think out how best to collaborate in the future . |
| 19 | I 'M A healthy 23year-old girl , very happy with my present boyfriend , though we are not going steady . |
| 20 | It turns out ( though we are not going to prove it here ) that the exact shape of the current loop is immaterial ( not unreasonable if the loop is far away ) and in the general case we only need to replace unc by S , the area of the loop . |
| 21 | Clerk of the course Philip Arkwright said : ‘ We are watering as though we are not going to get any rain . |
| 22 | and I do n't know how he , you are , and in the end our cousins you , you know convince me that they 'd take sort of control , you know that , if I was worried as well about or dad getting drunk , one thing or another like , you know , and said look we 're going , it 's not as though we 're not going , we 're going and we 'll have him in with us and I let him go in the end cos I went down in the five weeks |
| 23 | There 's still something about railways even though they 're not steaming . |
| 24 | I think they 're fantastic , even though they 're not going to go up this season . |
| 25 | An allegation that drugs are being supplied as a " liquid cash " to modify behaviour at a particular prison may point a sufficient finger at the medical officers working at that prison , even though they are not referred to by name . |
| 26 | A palindrome arises for reasons that have nothing to do with transformational grammar ; puns undoubtedly perform some sort of linguistic operation even though they are not accounted for in the grammars ; etymology reveals monsters more absurd than the most ignorant folk-etymology can imagine . |
| 27 | These dithiadiazoles are held together in dimeric pairs through S — S interactions , as in , though they are not held together in the trans -type configuration , but in a variety of other orientations . |
| 28 | Unlimited companies , it points out , must also have their accounts audited , even though they are not filed with the Registrar . |
| 29 | These dates have now become a bone of contention in Hong Kong as rugby administrators in the British territory have belatedly realised — even though they are not admitting it — that the Japanese have outsmarted them and gained a precious advantage for the next World Cup . |
| 30 | As the beginner progresses to more advanced areas of basic training , the simple blocks give way ( though they are not discarded ) to more demanding techniques . |