Example sentences of "[adv] even though [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Beggar 's view is , reasonably , that Hoccleve 's income should be enough even though he had a wife , and has by marrying her , cut off the possibility of a career in the Church . |
| 2 | So even though we have a lot of tricky stuff to get right soundwise , the crew is so great that they can do it pretty much without us . |
| 3 | Within the sorry within the H B F projections , the populations grows by seventy thousand persons , so even though we have increased death statistics , mortality statistics where life expectancy is going to increase , by applying those onto a higher population you 're naturally going to have more deaths . |
| 4 | Reasoning powers can deteriorate : people may begin to think irrationally ( and do so even though they know they are doing so ) ; they may begin to get paranoid , feeling that others are slyly poking fun at them , excluding them from discussions , or being condescending or patronizing . |
| 5 | All later forms of religion have to handle this problem , and do so even though they use different means . |
| 6 | They fall into some categories do n't they , like the lazy slob , who never does anything , never washes a dish or ne never helps at all around the house , so even though they stay there for about a week . |
| 7 | And all the impurities are left in the beer so even though you do n't have the benefit of getting drunk you still get a hangover . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , so even though she 's been on a self-monitoring programme for several years now I felt that constant professional supervision was necessary , and so did Dr Russell . ’ |
| 9 | This is so even though it had absolutely no contractual effect and operated to non-one 's detriment . |
| 10 | Yet can not the elder referred to in the example be said to have acted morally even though he did not adhere to the sect 's fundamental principle of non-violence ? |
| 11 | Thus even though we have not yet managed to find a primordial black hole , there is fairly general agreement that if we did , it would have to be emitting a lot of gamma rays and X rays . |
| 12 | A great deal of my audience enjoyed them immensely even though they 'd never heard them before . |
| 13 | I was and it 's never gone away even though I 've put my weight back on . |
| 14 | Some kinds of long-term memory seem to endure indefinitely even though they have apparently been lost for a long time , e.g. an older person may find it easy to recall childhood events with great clarity even though there has been no use of the material for fifty or sixty years . |
| 15 | I just you 're just names to me , do you know what I , I mean , I still do n't know who , which one you are , now even though you said . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I would prefer to finish my sentence here even though I 've only got three weeks to go . |
| 18 | It should be noted that ( a ) where the accused 's behaviour falls within s.2(1) , Ghosh is irrelevant : Wootton , above ; ( b ) that the accused may act dishonestly even though he did something which the civil law allows him to do , such as retain the overpayment of a bet ( Gilks [ 1972 ] 1 WLR 1341 ) ; and ( c ) that as a result of Lawrence v DPP , above , a person may be dishonest despite the fact that the owner has consented to the appropriation . |
| 19 | Generally , they are either very active working dogs , or very excitable ones , who work incredibly hard even though they do n't really achieve anything . |
| 20 | Not only is this virtually impossible ( and improbable ) in cases of injury — fatal or otherwise — to employees or the public , but in cases of financial irregularities it is always open for the suspect(s) to plead that it was not his intention to defraud shareholders , indeed even though he engaged in what appears to be financially irregular practices , his intention all along had been to improve shareholders ' financial interests , but unfortunately due to unforeseeable circumstances , matters went sour . |
| 21 | And sometimes even though you did know him … |
| 22 | There 's no way draymen in London deliver after lunch-time , so I felt fairly safe there even though I had to rearrange the kegs around Armstrong . |
| 23 | Accordingly even though he picked up three loads there was only one appropriation because there was only one deviation . |
| 24 | I mean in the end he 's talking about they 've got the supreme authority but er but not actually yet even though he talks about revolution they 're not actually seizing the land unless they actually think the landlord 's done something wrong like erm rents or whatever . |
| 25 | Yet even though he got the chance to fight Mr Bush , he would not now be heading for the White House if it had not been for the disaster which hit the President a few days after that TV interview . |
| 26 | clockwise even though it means coming the long way round |