Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] though " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , heaths , downland and coppice all need management if they and their customary inhabitants are to survive ( though we seem to have conveniently forgotten that though these habitats are manicured , they are not man-invented , and all have prototypes in the wild created by fire , storm , flood and wild grazing animals . ) |
| 2 | It can , however , be claimed that though the expansion of employment in the public sector was not directly responsible for the decline in the number of people employed in the manufacturing sector because it did not use the same labour sources and because there was no labour shortage anyhow , it was , nevertheless , indirectly responsible because it led to a decline in private profit and hence to a shortage of capital for investment in the manufacturing industries . |
| 3 | It should be added that though this book is about BR , the 1980s also saw the opening of the last section of the Tyne & Wear Metro in March 1984 and the launch of the stillexpanding Docklands Light Railway in July 1987 . |
| 4 | That 's where the fuel tanks are located and though it seemed likely that the partial tearing away of the wing had also ruptured the fuel lines and spilled the fuel , there was no way of being sure and no one , again as far as I know , has ever come up against the problem of what happens when an oxyacetylene jet meets a fuel tank under water . |
| 5 | The Earth is included because though only a few tens of impact craters are known , all of them are less than 500 Ma old and thus constitute recent cratering . |
| 6 | The knife — the crucial prop here — is visually represented by a fist clenched as though round the knife handle . |
| 7 | Then she forced a smile , and said , ‘ Of course , Damien : and proffered a cheek , averted as though she was expecting a blow . |
| 8 | Discarding pretence still further , she opened one of the drawers in the white chest of drawers , slamming it shut at once on the unfashionable baby clothes that Nannie had left in tidy small piles , washed and mended as though she had planned for them an after-life in which Nannie 's memory should have a lasting importance . |
| 9 | I see it 's been disconnected as though somebody was gon na take it . |
| 10 | The sting in her face had vanished as though wiped away with a magic cloth , and — stupidly — she found herself waiting to be kissed . |
| 11 | And as she met the dark gaze of Guido Falcone , her breath caught as though a fist had connected with her solar plexus . |
| 12 | The heather and the stumbling darkness were forgotten as though the sunrise had melted them . |
| 13 | She rose on to her knees and looked as though she was praying , but her eyes were fully open and the clenched look on her remarkably white face with its mannish black eyebrows suddenly reminded him of her dead mother . |
| 14 | Emma-Jane Mac , in marvellous form throughout the week , looked as though she might beat his time until Everest Oyster stopped at the penultimate fence . |
| 15 | The following morning the room looked as though an expedition had broken out in it , so we fought all the bits back into the sacs , smiled sweetly at the girl on reception and left . |
| 16 | At times it has looked as though the difficulties might have proved insurmountable , the strain too much . |
| 17 | Willis 's 5 for 42 clearly inspired Roberts , who in his first four overs sent back Steele , Hayes and Balderstone : Woolmer and Willey took the score to 80 before the former departed , and Willey and Greig then looked as though they might turn the match England 's way . |
| 18 | Boycott stayed over five hours for 70 but had no lengthy support , Botham holed out in the deep when his responsibility as captain was to put his head down , and England never looked as though they were going to make it . |
| 19 | Once again , Botham won the toss and chose to field as the pitch looked as though it would be most lively on the first morning , and for the second time his decision could not really be criticized . |
| 20 | In 1982 all these qualities looked as though they were going to be urgently required . |
| 21 | Freya 's letter looked as though she had written it in a great hurry : reams and reams of handwritten scrawl , with sentences crawling up the side of the page and ideas jumping all over the place . |
| 22 | Many of the pastures looked as though dandelions were being grown commercially , for they formed carpets of unbroken yellow . |
| 23 | The call had been made in good faith : a car had looked as though it might turn over , but in the event it had not . |
| 24 | The whole caboodle , heavy and cumbersome , looked as though it might be more at home in a grand hotel than a north London flat : precisely the image the manufacturer is trying to get across . |
| 25 | Curle stepped up and placed the penalty beyond Schmeichel and suddenly United looked as though they would be grateful for a point from a game they should have controlled — and won . |
| 26 | I suppose both of them were silent ; but I thought that O looked as though something was almost over , as if he was ending somehow . |
| 27 | The mist looked as though it had been created by the BBC special effects department for a studio play about Jack the Ripper , and yards away I could hear voices without being able to see the humans making the sound . |
| 28 | We had a 3.15 PM start , and we 'd only played one hole when the end of the world looked as though it had come and we had to shelter in the R&A tent . |
| 29 | Bernhard Langer really looked as though it could be his year with a 68 , and Sandy was three strokes off the lead . |
| 30 | At one point , when Janet had kissed Billy 's ear , the elder of the two brothers , Vic , had looked as though he was about to protest . |