Example sentences of "though it [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The march might be a girdle of lawless palatines , only elusively within reach of the King 's justice , but the shadow of royal displeasure was at least a curb there ; but Gwynedd , though it formerly owned Henry as suzerain , was a free principality , and could harbour runaways and make short work of captured felons with impunity .
2 This is largely the result of a dramatic increase in the level of reported and detected crime over the same period , though it also reflects decisions by the police and prosecuting authorities to deal with such offenders by means of prosecuting them instead of cautioning them or taking no further action .
3 Acer UK Ltd 's Christopher Hay says the company is ‘ comfortable ’ with SCO 's recently declared intention to edge towards Unix SVR4 and says Acer 's collaboration in the ACE initiative has provided the firm with the experience of RISC and Microsoft NT should that be required in the future , though it only has Intel 's P5 part in its sights at present as far as chip technology goes .
4 I have argued that correctionalism is no more inherently flawed than any other starting assumption ( including ‘ appreciation ’ ) that the alleged functions of crime are a myth , and that socialist anti-correctionalism is really nothing of the sort , but an argument about the nature of officially defined crime ( though it rightly draws attention to the fact that correctionalism can not justifiably avoid such an argument ) .
5 A later estimate ( 21 November 1952 ) , though it still graded Britain as the most important member of the Atlantic community , described her as in many respects a fragile and wrong-headed partner .
6 Though it once supported salmon and sea-trout runs , little flourishes in it now .
7 But , the application of NMDA itself is not usually sufficient to induce LTP , though it readily induces STP .
8 ( Though it certainly got Hamnett 's clothes in the papers ) .
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