Example sentences of "[adv] though it [is] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So though it is hard to imagine the stealthy fighter-bombers , map-reading cruise missiles and pinpoint bombs that won the Gulf war being beaten by Brazilian , Chinese or Russian weapons for decades , there is a good argument for what will now in effect be an arms race by America against itself . |
| 2 | That is , how to convey to members of the public that their request or complaint is taken seriously even though it is impossible to act upon it . |
| 3 | Written material included a claim that the company was exploiting a legal loophole that enabled the device to be sold , even though it is illegal to attach one to a telephone in the UK . |
| 4 | Given these irreconcilable purposes it is Pham Van Dong and Giap , to take two symbols of Vietnamese intransigence , rather than Ho Chi Minh , who represented the reality of Franco-Vietnamese relations in the four or five months before the all-out war began in December 1946 ; even though it is tempting to consider how , up to the last minute , conflict might have been averted — or at least postponed . |
| 5 | In Cato ( 1976 ) the Court of Appeal was prepared to hold that the offence of possessing controlled drugs was sufficient , together with the act of injecting another with these drugs , even though it is difficult to see how mere possession ( which is the offence ) can cause death . |
| 6 | Thus there are two different intensional relations behind the two different versions of the second sentence in ( 21 ) , even though it is hard to think of any circumstances whatever ( other than metalinguistic ones ) in which they could have different truth values : ( 22 ) ( 23 ) ( We use as the symbol for assignment of equation . ) |
| 7 | We did the second album , and even though it is hard to find , which is depressing as hell , it sells . |