Example sentences of "[adv] though they may be " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can be grown in a large number of different ways but are typically one or two microns thick though they may be millimetres or even centimetres long . |
| 2 | suddenly , everybody rejects the group , even though they may be fantastic . |
| 3 | There is an ever-present temptation to take the easy way out and concentrate on items that are ‘ sexy ’ even though they may be irrelevant or misleading . |
| 4 | Their inability to concentrate or order their thoughts means that they generally do not learn much at school , even though they may be quite intelligent . |
| 5 | For domesticated felines remain ‘ part-kitten ’ all through their lives , and even though they may be middle-aged in feline terms they still look upon their human owners as their mothers . |
| 6 | It can not be too strongly stressed that the subject of letters is all-important and that , even though they may be complete with the signature , they are of little virtue or worth unless they say something of at least modest significance . |
| 7 | Even , even though they may be er , the they may work as a result of different o of the same enzyme activity in some cases the target for that enzyme activity and the receptors that have put it into the specific cells that are targeted lead to really very different biological effects . |
| 8 | A final point that has to be borne in mind is that in order to make generalizations based on the type of quantitative analysis pioneered by Labov , a large number of tokens must be analysed ( usually thousands ) ; however , it happens that some variables that are quite salient in the community occur relatively rarely , and so we can not make reliable quantitative statements about these covering the range of speaker variables , even though they may be involved in linguistic change and may be important for historical projections on to earlier English . |
| 9 | This book will therefore explain some of these ordinary means , even though they may be familiar to most moviegoers , as a basis for the extraordinary and generally more elaborate means that are known as SFX . |
| 10 | Both ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) are falsifiable , even though they may be true . |
| 11 | This algorithm is incremental because it creates clusters from the first few data , and these early clusters can be used at once , even though they may be improved during later learning . |
| 12 | Even though they may be working together on contributory problems in the marriage , he still needs to recognise how she hung on for both of them while he was out having a good time . |
| 13 | As all sand surfaces possess chance irregularities , even though they may be only of the magnitude of a few sand grains , there is a natural tendency for ripples to form . |
| 14 | When that is done those that are redeemable necessarily constitute a class separate from those not issued as redeemable even though they may be identical in every other respect . |
| 15 | Where there is nothing to show that the parties have used language in any other than its strict and ordinary sense , and where the words interpreted in that sense are sensible with reference to extrinsic circumstances , it is an inflexible rule of construction that the words shall be interpreted in that strict and primary sense even though they may be capable of some popular or secondary interpretation and even though the most conclusive evidence of the intention to use them in such popular sense is tendered ( Enlayde Ltd v Roberts [ 1917 ] 1 Ch 109 : obligation to reinstate property destroyed by fire included an obligation to reinstate where the destruction was caused by incendiary bombs ) . |
| 16 | The final strategy for risk reduction is for salespeople to encourage trial orders , even though they may be uneconomic in company terms and in terms of salespeople 's time in the short term , when faced with a straight re-buy ( see Chapter 2 ) . |