Example sentences of "though it be [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Though it 's nowhere near as much as they recommend , ’ she said . |
| 2 | on the basis of a hundred per hundred thousand square feet to which you 'd have to add obviously a sort of surrounding area from the square footage used for a distribution warehouse , it looks as though it 's around about the thirteen |
| 3 | Feels as though it 's right through . |
| 4 | " It looks as though it 's over wi' awd Blossom , then , " he said , and rested his hand briefly on the old cow 's back It was an enormous , work-swollen hand . |
| 5 | Everybody knows the French Pub , or at least they say they know it if you prompt them with ‘ you know , the one in Dean Street ’ , though it 's not in many of the guide books . |
| 6 | Now either , either we have , ei either you accept that and y y you 're saying n not only in terms of land reform is the Communist Party prepared to see poor peasants being allocated less than subsistence land but even when they are allocated land they 're being taxed on their income even though it 's well below subsistence . |
| 7 | But they pop down to London as though it 's down into town but They 're quite near the motorway so it 's useful . |
| 8 | So Fay it looks as though it 's down to you . |
| 9 | Not even good , apparently , though it 's very like him , and dear old Sam — the dog — and Aunt Emily loved it . |
| 10 | Raskolnikov is one of the others , though it 's only through the long crime-and-punishment process that he comes to understand this : he had ‘ wanted something more ’ — more than our mere-existence rain . |
| 11 | The answer is that , properly speaking , the honourable word ‘ bound ’ should not be applied to a cased book , though it is admittedly in general use . |
| 12 | Now party influence looks as though it is again on the wane . |
| 13 | The book ranks as one of the most penetrating modern accounts of Anselm 's thought , though it is not without its weaknesses as an interpretation of Anselm himself . |
| 14 | ‘ Though it is not without its compensations . ’ |
| 15 | This has its attractive side , though it is not without irony . |
| 16 | meditation is extremely helpful ; 2. meditation is extremely helpful for many people , even though it is not for me ; 3. meditation can be helpful , even though it often is not ; 4. meditation is unlikely to be helpful , even though there are exceptions ; 5 . |
| 17 | Though it is not for me to say that . ’ |
| 18 | Figure 6.2 ( b ) can be taken to represent the Earth and the Moon today , though it is not to scale and the tides have been greatly exaggerated . |
| 19 | Though it is not within the province of Collecting Lustreware to treat this topic in depth , it is reassuring that this personal side of the industry is noted — ‘ British potters , often quite humble and now unremembered potters and their decorators — who were very often young boys or girls — used ( lustre ) to enhance inexpensive everyday earthenware articles . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ But I have , dear boy , and I know the tomb you mean though it is not by Taddeo Duodecimo as attributed . ’ |
| 21 | Alpha is made up of two components of magnitudes 3 and 5 ; the separation is 231 seconds of arc , so that binoculars give a good view of the pair even though it is not in the least prominent . |
| 22 | However , if a particular journalist writes about another part of your range of products it might be tactically useful to send samples of an inexpensive new product , even though it is not in his area , simply to remind him of your existence and to jog his memory about the rest of the range . |
| 23 | One candidate is the duet ‘ Come let us leave the town ’ — the first vocal number in the theatre score , though it is not in the 1692 word-book : it is the first piece of ‘ new musick ’ in Q1693 . |
| 24 | Many words and phrases have a technical legal meaning , and it is quite proper , and often necessary , to use such language in order to convey a precise legal meaning : for instance , the drafter may deliberately refer to the requirement that the goods be " merchantable " , because that word is used in the SGA , even though it is not in common use . |
| 25 | And , of course , the American army did liberate this south-western corner of Bohemia , though it is only in recent weeks that the new government has permitted the fact to be acknowledged . |
| 26 | The Scottish Fold cat appears as though it is permanently in the act of lowering its ears . |
| 27 | Having found a food-source in the evening , they will fly straight back to it the following morning , still guiding themselves by the sun even though it is now in the east and not the west . |
| 28 | Those who hoped , then , for a genuinely unitary system of examining may be disappointed ( though it is far from clear that their hopes were ever realistic ) . |
| 29 | My guess was right when I thought they would get an awful lot from a Video Course , even though it was n't in their language . |
| 30 | This scheme was widely welcomed and easily settled the debate over what style would be most appropriate for a rural Light Railway though it was not without some apprehension that the W & L Board gave the go ahead . |