Example sentences of "though [pron] is [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't intend to write all the time , though there is some work I want to do . |
| 2 | Squeezing the string works onto three generously filled discs makes good economic sense , though it is annoying to have to experience a break between the first and second movements of the Op. 67 Quartet . |
| 3 | In general though it is better to make your existing drive the master and the new drive the slave . |
| 4 | Though it is rare to find consensus among footballers and the media , few on either side had a good , or even printable , word for Toshack in Wales while he was marching Swansea to the top of the hill and down again . |
| 5 | ‘ I can assure you , ’ he told Tom Driberg , ‘ that if I was left as free a hand in French Indochina and the Netherlands East Indies as I was left in Burma , I could solve both these problems by the same methods ; though it is heartbreaking to have to leave the political control to other nations when we are really in military control . ’ |
| 6 | Access is free at all times , though it is easy to disturb the birds , so care is needed when approaching the shore . |
| 7 | The wall is not in fact vertical though it is easy to misremember it as such , because it rises in three distinct layers of limestone , to heights of 6,900 , 8,500 and finally some 9,000 feet , with a filling of ice and snow on the slopes that divide one layer from the next . |
| 8 | That could work — though it is easy to imagine conflicts of interest with the housing and planning functions of the department . |
| 9 | Babies are n't very nice for the first couple of years of their lives either , though it is modern to say the opposite . |
| 10 | Written material included a claim that the company was exploiting a legal loophole that enabled the device to be sold , even though it is illegal to attach one to a telephone in the UK . |
| 11 | Borrowers pay 14.5 per cent interest , though it is due to rise to 15.5 per cent on 1 November . |
| 12 | ‘ Though it is ghastly to contemplate , we might well be stuck with that portable cabin , albeit in a different position . ’ |
| 13 | For the sake of convenience this will be left for Chapter 5 though it is essential to remember that the data collected through social surveys are almost exclusively obtained by means of this method . |
| 14 | They are forced to work in isolation , even though it is riskier to do so . |
| 15 | By then he had been encouraged by the success of The Idea of a Christian Society ( 1940 ) though it is sobering to reflect that the sales , so he told me , were not much more than 6,000 copies . |
| 16 | Though it is impossible to estimate their numbers with accuracy , the generally accepted total for all the peoples together is only between 200,000 and 220,000 in the late sixteenth century . |
| 17 | These developments contributed to a declared and growing sense of division between north and south , though it is impossible to say what have been its economic consequences . |
| 18 | Their enclosure is near by , at the back of our cages , and though it is impossible to see them we often hear them . ’ |
| 19 | That is , how to convey to members of the public that their request or complaint is taken seriously even though it is impossible to act upon it . |
| 20 | As the 1988 Education Reform Act comes into effect , the local authorities ' share of educational expenditure is diminishing and will probably continue to diminish , though it is impossible to predict by how much . |
| 21 | Even with × 20 it shows up as nothing more than an elliptical blur , more or less devoid of detail , though it is possible to see the smaller companion galaxy M32 close beside it . |
| 22 | Though it is possible to trace a system of remedies outside the court structure back a thousand years ( Wraith and Hutchesson , 1973 ) , it is unnecessary to go back beyond the National Insurance Act 1911 for an historical background to modern tribunals . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , experienced models are hard to come by on most of the Polynesian islands , though it is possible to find a few in Papeete . |
| 24 | Given these irreconcilable purposes it is Pham Van Dong and Giap , to take two symbols of Vietnamese intransigence , rather than Ho Chi Minh , who represented the reality of Franco-Vietnamese relations in the four or five months before the all-out war began in December 1946 ; even though it is tempting to consider how , up to the last minute , conflict might have been averted — or at least postponed . |
| 25 | It seems that polled cattle existed in Ireland long , long before any invaders would have introduced polled Scandinavian cattle , though it is tempting to assume that polled cattle , especially if they are colour-sided or dun , have Scandinavian origins . |
| 26 | Type A is the easiest to make and costs least , though it is harder to see the caterpillars in this kind of cage . |
| 27 | Feminists studying language have in general been more interested in furthering the study of sex difference than in criticising it , and though it is acceptable to sneer at long-dead commentators like Jespersen , whose work we will shortly come to , a thorough critique of modem sociolinguistics has been very slow to emerge . |
| 28 | But , though it is heartening to find an Iranian writer bravely grappling with the problems of exile and turning a critical eye on the values of both his native and adopted countries , Mr Ataie will write better plays when he admits the theatrical importance of contradiction and argument . |
| 29 | It is to be noted that the starred numbers in Table 1 do not need to be calculated , though it is convenient to write them down . |
| 30 | This was one of Norman Newell 's great catastrophes in the history of life ( though it is important to note that the floristic changes were to come later ) . |