Example sentences of "though it be known " in BNC.

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1 Even though it is known to exist , such discrimination is not easy to pin down and will always be denied when it is challenged .
2 For example , though it is known that some 80 per cent of pedestrian fatalities in Britain occur on built-up roads , statistics are not available separately for residential areas .
3 Such major physical impacts are fairly easy to assess , but not enough work has yet been done to assess the effect of visitors on wildlife itself , though it is known that shy species will decline , while common species will often increase , and that fauna both on land and in water will decline faster than flora ( Liddle and Scorgie , 1980 ) .
4 The history of the domestication of many of the fruit trees of the tropics may therefore never be disentangled , though it is known that some of them at least , like the duku and lanseh , forms of Lansium domesticum ( Meliaceae ) , are apomicts .
5 Some schemes were , moreover , undertaken , even though it was known that they would make a loss , because of the statutory duty to supply .
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