Example sentences of "though it [be] not [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everybody knows the French Pub , or at least they say they know it if you prompt them with ‘ you know , the one in Dean Street ’ , though it 's not in many of the guide books . |
| 2 | The book ranks as one of the most penetrating modern accounts of Anselm 's thought , though it is not without its weaknesses as an interpretation of Anselm himself . |
| 3 | ‘ Though it is not without its compensations . ’ |
| 4 | This has its attractive side , though it is not without irony . |
| 5 | meditation is extremely helpful ; 2. meditation is extremely helpful for many people , even though it is not for me ; 3. meditation can be helpful , even though it often is not ; 4. meditation is unlikely to be helpful , even though there are exceptions ; 5 . |
| 6 | Though it is not for me to say that . ’ |
| 7 | Figure 6.2 ( b ) can be taken to represent the Earth and the Moon today , though it is not to scale and the tides have been greatly exaggerated . |
| 8 | Though it is not within the province of Collecting Lustreware to treat this topic in depth , it is reassuring that this personal side of the industry is noted — ‘ British potters , often quite humble and now unremembered potters and their decorators — who were very often young boys or girls — used ( lustre ) to enhance inexpensive everyday earthenware articles . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But I have , dear boy , and I know the tomb you mean though it is not by Taddeo Duodecimo as attributed . ’ |
| 10 | Alpha is made up of two components of magnitudes 3 and 5 ; the separation is 231 seconds of arc , so that binoculars give a good view of the pair even though it is not in the least prominent . |
| 11 | However , if a particular journalist writes about another part of your range of products it might be tactically useful to send samples of an inexpensive new product , even though it is not in his area , simply to remind him of your existence and to jog his memory about the rest of the range . |
| 12 | One candidate is the duet ‘ Come let us leave the town ’ — the first vocal number in the theatre score , though it is not in the 1692 word-book : it is the first piece of ‘ new musick ’ in Q1693 . |
| 13 | Many words and phrases have a technical legal meaning , and it is quite proper , and often necessary , to use such language in order to convey a precise legal meaning : for instance , the drafter may deliberately refer to the requirement that the goods be " merchantable " , because that word is used in the SGA , even though it is not in common use . |
| 14 | This scheme was widely welcomed and easily settled the debate over what style would be most appropriate for a rural Light Railway though it was not without some apprehension that the W & L Board gave the go ahead . |
| 15 | It is clear that enhanced staffing proved to be the single most potent strategy in the Programme , though it was not without its problems , and the potential of some PNP appointments was frustrated by attitudes and decisions at the school level . |
| 16 | But of his courage , though it was not of a kind that Hotspur admired , there could be little doubt ; and of his ability and calculating detachment , none . |
| 17 | Under his leadership northern Europe became more settled and a period of building activity was begun , though it was not of long duration . |
| 18 | First , and most simply , though it was not at all uncommon for administrators to feel exasperated by Masai obduracy , or disapproving of certain aspects of the Masai way of life ( such as collective fornication throughout the years of early manhood ) , it was rare indeed for one in close contact with them to conceive a personal dislike for them . |
| 19 | It contained a mass of papers relevant to the ‘ vision ’ , and sometimes it had been my duty to show it to privileged people , though it was not for general release . |
| 20 | I learned that , like Jane Austen , she was an ASROG ( Abbey School Reading Old Girl ) , though it was not until years later that she sent me these scraps from a diary kept during her schooldays . |
| 21 | Blacks continued to involve themselves in boxing after the war though it was not until 1970 that a black boxer emulated the Turpins in winning a British title : Jamaican-born Bunny Sterling became the first immigrant boxer ever to win a British title when he beat Mark Rowe at Wembley . |
| 22 | Because of this , boxing remained the major sporting area for blacks right up to and beyond the World War II period , though it was not until 1948 that they were allowed to contest a British title . |
| 23 | Dissenting minorities were driven out by religious difficulties : Roger Williams left Boston within a year of arriving , though it was not until five years later that he made his way south through the dense woodlands to Rhode Island to launch the first settlement based on principles of religious toleration in 1636 . |
| 24 | Other companies reluctantly followed suit , though it was not until 1910 that the Great Western Railway phased out the last of its second-class carriages . |
| 25 | As late as 1863 he could still assure his mother that he might turn his attention to almost any subject , but it must have been around this time that a first decision in favour of classics was taken , even though it was not until 1865 at Leipzig that his academic specialization became complete . |