Example sentences of "though it [be] not a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Zapp wants the subject to be organized , systematic , objective , in a word — though it is not a word he uses — scientific . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps it would be wise to search you ? ’ he asks , almost politely , as though it were not a rhetorical question . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Though it was not a particularly good painting , as it happens , Ian had tried especially hard at it ; very hard in fact . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |