Example sentences of "[adv] though he [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is too afraid , even ashamed , to move towards her Cousin even though he is gentle and understanding in his wish to comfort her . |
| 2 | Urbane Slava , nicely played by Peter Silverleaf even though he is much too young for the part , has a fairly dangerous past . |
| 3 | Tom supplements their pension by working part-time , even though he is nearly 70 . |
| 4 | Hall , annoyed at being seeded No.2 to Baddeley even though he is the present No.1 , refused to labour the point : ‘ I wanted to prove to everyone that I could play good badminton , not to show the seeding committee to be at fault , ’ he said . |
| 5 | But , despite his annoyance at being seeded No.2 to Baddeley even though he is the present No.1 , he declined to labour the point afterwards . |
| 6 | They said he answered some of their questions sarcastically and spoke in Russian , even though he is bilingual and the questions had been put to him in Moldavian . |
| 7 | In the Politburo Nguyen Van Ling is expected to stay on as secretary-general , even though he is 75 and said to be in poor health . |
| 8 | ‘ And shows it always , ’ Wilson replied , ‘ even though he is no longer a child . ’ |
| 9 | Anti-Clinton sentiments were manifest among voters in New York , where six out of 10 supported either former Senator Paul Tsongas , who came in second even though he is no longer running , or the fiery populism of third-placed Jerry Brown . |
| 10 | Alan Smith , the Arsenal striker who has yet to sign a new contract with the club , is still part of manager George Graham 's plans even though he is unlikely to start today 's game against Crystal Palace . |
| 11 | For example , he has a waking and sleeping pattern that follows closely the one regarded as normal — sleeps most at night , feeds at four regular intervals during the day even though he is so young . |
| 12 | He first met Ms Margaret Maughan , a person and ‘ lifelong fan ’ , in 1967 and they embarked upon ‘ an eight-year affair ’ which culminated in the birth in 1976 of one ‘ James ’ whom Mr Milligan ‘ has never met ’ even though he is said to have ‘ admitted ’ to newspaper reporters : ‘ It 's all true . |
| 13 | DEREK LEE , who played fullback for Scottish Schools last season , has nailed his colours to the Glasgow even though he is playing standoff for Watsonians in Edinburgh . |
| 14 | ‘ I would have thought that he , as local MP , would have managed to come and visit us , even though he is busy . ’ |
| 15 | He recalls that the Chancellor came in to the store at around 5pm , and stands by this approximate time even though he is well aware that Mr Lamont was then in a Treasury Select Committee at the House of Commons . |
| 16 | Even though he is staying at Wednesday , half his attention is sure to be elsewhere following all the recent transfer talk . |
| 17 | ‘ Put it this way , there would be an entirely different figure on him now if I had to name a price , even though he is 32 in January . |
| 18 | In a recent case , the Second Division of the Inner House of the Court of Session has decided , in an appeal on the basis of law equally applicable in England and Wales , that a minority shareholder is entitled to an order to wind up the company on the just and equitable ground under s 122(1) ( g ) of the Insolvency Act 1986 , even though he is not entitled to a share purchase order because of unfair prejudice in terms of s 459 , CA 1985 ( see Jesner v Jarrad Properties Ltd , The Times , 26 October 1992 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ It gives him the image Americans love of the battling underdog even though he is ahead in the polls , ’ says an image consultant . |
| 20 | On all three occasions , Stewart has handed over the gloves to Blakey — even though he is clearly a far superior keeper . |
| 21 | ‘ It left him so that even though he is now 24 , he is still like a little child . |
| 22 | When a human being does X in order to do Y , the achieving of Y is his reason for doing X. When an animal does X in order to do Y , he does not do X for a reason , even though he is aiming at a goal in doing so . |
| 23 | Even though he is a long way out of the handicap he has the ability to spring a shock . |
| 24 | Here the use of the definite article with ‘ driver ’ seems quite appropriate , even though he is mentioned for the first time . |
| 25 | For the plaintiffs it is submitted that the action of the employee valuer in exercising his professional skill and judgment in providing a basic valuation for consideration by the assessor is not action taken by the society but a service rendered to the society by a professional man as such , even though he is also an employee . |
| 26 | Ideational apraxia is seen when a patient can not carry out a complex sequence of movements , even though he is capable of carrying out each movement individually . |
| 27 | If a lunatic attacks me , I am surely entitled to defend myself , even though he is not criminally responsible for his conduct . |
| 28 | He is no more likely to be provoked into acts of violence , even though he is made the subject of abusive and insulting remarks and conduct , and it is suggested that in this respect the law remains precisely the same . |
| 29 | ‘ Even though he is obsessed by an ideal of innocence ? |
| 30 | But Hawley says : ‘ Jason is more like Hanley in his general play — even though he is much smaller and basically a scrum-half . |