Example sentences of "though [ex0] [vb mod] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , since the whole economy was engaged in this process there could not be , according To Bukharin , a wholly unbalanced growth , even though there would be certain imbalances as a result of growth taking place in different sectors at somewhat different rates . |
| 2 | Have we the capacity to remain together even though there may be real theological differences among us ? |
| 3 | By its very nature it is likely that most will be potential problems relevant to the circumstances ( though there may be actual problems too ) , and , therefore , the goals set and the mutually agreed nursing interventions will be mainly preventive in nature . |
| 4 | Although several European countries have legal controls on such activities , in the U.K. the law has not been extended in this way , though there may be legal remedies in some cases for those who believe they have been harmed by the use to which the surreptitiously collected information has been put : if , for example , unauthorised entry on to property has occurred , or if there has been breach of confidence or copyright , or if conspiracy to commit a crime , civil wrong , public mischief or some outrageously immoral act can be proved . |
| 5 | It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent . |
| 6 | Though there may be several good reasons why our paper was not accepted ( one being that the editor in question was no longer alive ) , the fact is that there is no outlet for complaints against editorial abuse of power . |
| 7 | Your decor is fine , though there may be some nibbling of plants . |
| 8 | Similarly , many other forms of compulsive behaviour are easily recognised even though there may be considerable debate if one has the temerity to apply the term " addiction " . |
| 9 | In other words , if precedent was followed , the package of budget cuts would be attacked piecemeal when it disappeared into the congressional maze ; even though there might be general agreement on the need to cut the budget , vested interests operating through sympathetic members could , one by one , weaken or restore specific cuts . |
| 10 | Though there might be public support for better insurance programmes , if somewhat thin , because of the stagflation-induced social policy crisis , there was no ‘ mass attention , supportive sentiment , or a willingness of governmental actors to place mental health finance prominently on the agenda ’ . |
| 11 | He studied her warrant card intently , as though there might be some real doubt about her identity , and then returned it to her without even the glimmer of a smile . |
| 12 | Help is context-sensitive and very useful , though there can be some delay in retrieval sometimes prompting the worry that the program has not received an instruction . |
| 13 | On a hot summer day though there can be few better ways to begin a holiday than sitting on deck sipping an ice-cold San Miguel and tasting the salt spray as you watch the old town of Ibiza receding while Formentera beckons . |
| 14 | No ITV company was allowed a controlling interest in an ILR station in the same area , and vice versa ( though there could be joint directors ) . |
| 15 | The long punters will have plenty of sport with that one though there could be considerable confusion at a quick kick where the revised law says that it may be taken without waiting for the kicker 's team to retire behind the ball — provided they do not become involved in play . |
| 16 | Prices and rents are likely to fall slowly in most cities , though there could be some serious casualties in the boiling Berlin market as sanity returns . |
| 17 | There is very little likelihood of confusion arising whichever spelling is used in English documents , though there will be far-reaching consequences , for example in text-books , abstracts , indices , dictionaries , computer programs , and teaching , but it is difficult to see any compensating advantages in adopting the US version . |
| 18 | Some , primarily because of their educational background , though there will be other causes , are in a position in a business enterprise to be able to define their own roles and will have a determining voice in deciding pay and other rewards and , in general , be able to define the procedures and roles by which others ' work will be done . |
| 19 | It is also obvious that , say , 12 × 80 binoculars will have a much greater light-grasp than the 12 × 40 pair which I used , though there will be more of a problem in hand-holding . |
| 20 | The fuel which will make the largest contribution to energy demand growth will be coal though there will be significant growth in both gas and nuclear power consumption . |
| 21 | BBCBASIC does not incorporate " garbage collection " routines and it is possible to run out of room for variables even though there should be enough space . |
| 22 | Though there should be some correlation between the degeneracy of a fully occupied level and the intensity of the band derived from ionization from that level , many factors ( including band overlap ) obscure or destroy the validity of this generalization . |
| 23 | He had asked her only for what he needed , though there must be many blunter questions he could have put to her had he been so minded . |
| 24 | It is a land almost entirely owned and run by foreigners , though there must be few of Panama 's oligarchs — soldiers and landowners and bankers — who do not have an honorary passport or draw a regular remittance . |