Example sentences of "though [pron] [vb mod] [adv] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Characteristic selectivities can also , without much strain , be called ‘ ideological ’ , though something must often be allowed for an otherwise conditioned persistence of certain artistic forms embodying such selections . |
| 2 | Competitors are rarely accused of deliberately killing a kinsman , though they might well be accused of inadvertently doing so . |
| 3 | By contrast with Godwin and his circle , who grew out of a broad and rising general formation , at first not in critical relations with its own class , the Pre-Raphaelites , who were in majority from families of the commercial bourgeoisie , were in conscious opposition to the main cultural tendencies of their class , though they may finally be seen as articulating and expressing them . |
| 4 | These two cases are examples of the centralization of capital ; the way previously separate organizations are brought under a single centralized unit of direction ( though they may actually be run rather autonomously in practice ) . |
| 5 | They are of two sorts — those which are an integral part of the book , printed on the same paper and gathered up for binding with the rest of the sections ( though they will usually be paged separately ) ; and leaves or sections printed separately , sometimes on different paper altogether , which may even be of a different size . |
| 6 | By prodding his memory he placed Anna Beckett as the strange , dark little girl who was fostered with Mrs Wooldridge , his laundry woman , and with his new knowledge he thought he could see a slight resemblance to Sarah , though it would never be remarked upon . |
| 7 | This seems in principle to be an equally available justification as regards the mentally unfit , even though it may well be deplored . |
| 8 | The life-history reminds us that we are always talking , in the end , about people , and this makes it a favoured research tool of the ethnographic researcher , though it may also be used as an initial guide for ‘ opening up ’ almost any area of research . |
| 9 | Once sheep is acquired , for instance , the word dog is no longer over-extended to sheep , even though it may still be used for other kinds of mammals ( Clark , 1973a , 1978 ; Barrett , 1978 ) . |
| 10 | All of the references given above come from what is called the Priestly strand ( ‘ P ’ ) and as such they are to be dated to around the time of the Jews ' exile to Babylon in the sixth century BC — that is , according to the still widely accepted dating of this biblical strand within the source-critical school of thought ( though it must also be said that my own arguments as developed in this essay and elsewhere independently point to the exile as the time when these blood concerns and rituals would first have emerged ) . |
| 11 | Indeed it probably encouraged them , though it must never be forgotten that for every nursemaid or gardener who lived out their lives in the service of one family there were a hundred country girls who passed briefly through the household to pregnancy , marriage or another job , being treated merely as yet another instance of that ‘ servant problem ’ which filled the conversations of their mistresses . |
| 12 | I will consider each of these points in turn , though it must always be borne in mind that the provisions of the scheme must be construed as a whole so that each phrase provides part of the context for the others . |
| 13 | Joseph Needham 's only indexed reference to dreaming in ancient China is tantalizingly brief : Oneiromancy , or prognostication by dreams , was also practised in China , as in most ancient civilisations , though it can hardly be said to have taken a very important place there . |
| 14 | Though he will frequently be engaged in discussion and negotiation with water-users and others , when it comes to making decisions and taking action the field officer is on his own . |