Example sentences of "though [pron] may [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though I may fail to carry it out to the full in this life , my faith in it shall abide . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Though I may say that I shall be getting twenty-five guineas next Thursday for doing nothing but sit around in a television studio for half-an-hour , instead of beating my brains out all week-end to write a script for the BBC Overseas Service and getting ten guineas for it . ’ |
| 3 | I have decided , however , in the interests of posterity , to cut nothing , though I may take the liberty of annotating the text here and there , putting some of the facts straight and referring the reader to related documents , such as interviews you once gave or books and articles on you which have since appeared . |
| 4 | I certainly do n't prefer the figurative though I may have lent this way at one time . |
| 5 | The time for your vow is now ; though I may add that your family will be notified . |
| 6 | Though you may identify a number of questions which may occur to your audience it is not necessary to answer all of them in your presentation . |
| 7 | Though you may not want the negative situation to arise and though you may do your best to avoid it , once you know what the worst possible outcome would be and that you could cope with it , a great deal of the anxiety is removed . |
| 8 | In a sense , then , this use of language is low-status play , though you may acquire some disciples who are sufficiently intimidated by your ‘ divine intervention ’ . |
| 9 | For instance , you could choose a cushion , chair seat or bell pull , though you may wish to make something relatively simple and uncomplicated on your first attempt . |
| 10 | Though you may wish to insist it is not true , the fact remains that Leos are as stubborn as the stains on a butcher 's tunic . |
| 11 | Yes , but C and G are actually very good er very sound er on their er ratios , they 're pretty good , but erm some of them are n't so good , and you know , be careful when you 're coming to invest in building societies I 'd stick to the major players at the moment , even though you may get a premium by going to a smaller society . |
| 12 | Though you may pick up some new techniques , the national squads are basically designed to select already gifted karateka rather than teach karate tactics or techniques . |
| 13 | Does it ever occur to these orchestra-first people that , whereas in the theatre , though you may hear more of the orchestra than of the singers , nevertheless your attention is focused visually on the stage , while on disc you need the stage brought into the aural foreground to compensate for the loss of the visual facility ? |
| 14 | You know the way it is — someone dies whose example was meaningful to you , who was significant in your mind 's evolution , though you may have had only the most fleeting personal acquaintance with them . |
| 15 | It sounds as though you may have selector trouble . |
| 16 | A SEEMS to me as though you may have been overfeeding them with a fertiliser containing quite a lot of nitrogen and perhaps over-watering . |
| 17 | So even though you may have paid what you thought was a once and for all registration fee on qualifying prior to 1983 , if you wish to remain eligible to practise you are now required to update your registration status with the Council if you have not already done so . |
| 18 | You will see individual junctions more than once , please attempt to describe the road layout completely each time it appears on a film even though you may have described the junction previously ’ . |
| 19 | Look forward to your future with optimism , even though you may have been feeling held back for some time . |
| 20 | It is selective and hard to observe though you may catch sight of it in the tree canopy feeding on wood boring insects . |
| 21 | This is a private arrangement between you and the parents , though you may find that childminders in your area have agreed a uniform rate . |
| 22 | This will perhaps help your younger performers to be less self-conscious , though you may find that the appearance of a tripod induces a fit of the giggles in the cast . |
| 23 | You can not decide , though you may desire , to divorce your husband if the law does not allow ; you can not order the wine if only his signature makes the order legitimate . |
| 24 | The disadvantage is that it is considerably more work , though you may save money . |
| 25 | It seems as though you may run into opposition , either from the powers that be or the effects of economic cutbacks , and you may have to wait until November before this pattern changes . |
| 26 | Another method of creating horizontal movement is to make partial use of scale structures , even though we may prefer to hide scale origins completely . |
| 27 | Nor is a spiritual director a guru to whom we turn to satisfy our needs for dependence , even though we may recognize the hand of God providing this particular person at this particular time . |
| 28 | Where either intellectual incapacity or lack of any actual connection means that we can neither intuitively nor demonstratively perceive a connection , then , ‘ though we may fancy , guess , or believe , yet we always come short of knowledge ’ . |
| 29 | Even though we may think that in Britain we have had more than our share of industrial decay and change , the catalogue of proud names that were in the vanguard of German or American industrial might at the turn of the last century is very different from the list of those who are in front today . |
| 30 | His studies of more than 10,000 executives in the past three decades persuade him that , unless our line of work calls fundamentally on our buzzgiving skills , we are unlikely to shine at it — even though we may muddle through on quasi-automatic dexterity alone . |