Example sentences of "[adv] though it be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | I say rightly so because Herbert Spencer 's theory of evolution was fundamentally different from Darwin 's , even though it 's often confused with it . |
2 | Such knowledge is always centred in a self even though it is outward looking , searching for power and control of what is other to it . |
3 | In addition it was decided only to examine information that is external to the company and available from formal sources even though it is well known ( and was confirmed in discussions with the companies themselves ) that a considerable use is made of internal and informal information . |
4 | For example , I wonder why there are no English-speaking contributors to the Panofsky centenary conference , even though it is well known that this approach was most fully developed in the English-speaking world . |
5 | Britain points out that the Bush Administration is still using its political weight in the IMF to block financial relief for Vietnam , even though it is widely recognised that the exodus from Vietnam will only stop when living standards improve . |
6 | However , much of this work is heavily weighted towards the study of individual words , even though it is widely recognized that most vocabulary growth comes from encountering words in the course of reading . |
7 | Even though it is generally recognised that , at best , the principles of operant conditioning described in Verbal Behaviour contribute but a small part to our understanding of the processes of language development , this does not immediately rule out the possibility of employing techniques based upon operant conditioning to help those children who are not developing language in the normal way . |
8 | The Rheidol line offers some of the most spectacular scenery available on Welsh railways and , as far as railway enthusiasts are concerned , the line still has much to offer even though it is still recovering after being reduced to virtual siding status in the last year 's of British Rail management . |
9 | Since airborne sound will travel up through the ceiling into the room above , and from there through the party wall , it may still be a nuisance , even though it is somewhat diminished . |
10 | It is not bard to imagine legionaries marching briskly along this track because , even though it is now walled as a result of the nineteenth-century enclosures , it runs straight as a spear across the fell , totally unlike the whirligig roads of the drovers and packmen . |
11 | Nor do I feel compelled to depart from that conclusion by the fact that , under the present practice , a local authority which acts as a relator in a relator action is required to give an undertaking in damages even though it is so proceeding in order to enforce the law in the public interest . |
12 | It involves the disinterested pursuit of truth , beauty or goodness , even though it is always mixed up with other motivations such as the search for social importance ( knowledge is power ) , or for status and acceptance , or for the comforts of a dream world , or for the individual self-realisation which involves the establishment of a personal identity . |
13 | I marvel he ever steeled himself to hit hard enough to stun , and to break the branch in the blow , even though it was partly rotted . |
14 | The Democratic majority in Congress , however , had opposed any such tampering with the Bill of Rights , preferring to demonstrate its opposition to flag burning by enacting the Flag Protection Act , even though it was widely anticipated that the Act would be declared unconstitutional in the courts . |
15 | And even though it was generally accepted that they , along with the better known chimps of East Africa , were our closest relatives , few would have guessed that their relationships would be , well , so very human . |
16 | It was admitted that this section worried the Fair Employment Commission , even though it was seldom used by employers . |
17 | The power of the element of statehood among the dominant beliefs appears to have been sufficient to neutralize the provisional movement in the South , even though it was severely tested by the event of Bloody Sunday in 1972 , when thirteen demonstrators were killed by British soldiers in Derry , and by the provisional hunger strikes of 1981 . |
18 | For tragic Tony Hancock 's TV career had a lot more going for it than the poorly-performed Blood Donor in 1961 , still his most famous show , even though it was all acted off cue cards . |
19 | Design flaws made it hard to manufacture in volume at 40MHz until recently though it was originally targeted at high clock rates . |