Example sentences of "though [pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though it may be said that what is taken on in the incarnation is a humanity in which we all share , it is still the case that the form in which this universal nature is said to have been taken on is that of a male human being . |
| 2 | Even though it might be argued that a regular life-style implies a regular degree of fatigue and so will require a regular amount of sleep , in practice , such a degree of regularity is not achieved . |
| 3 | For though it might be claimed that such an education would help a child to see more in his immediate environment , and understand it better , yet it would also greatly diminish his chances of going beyond that environment . |
| 4 | Curiously , it is still rather unusual for solicitors ' partnership agreements to provide that partners should retire upon reaching an agreed age , though it might be thought that there are good reasons for making this a requirement in the interests of a firm 's long term planning . |
| 5 | The state has no role in the appointment of bishops and the juridical processes of church and state are kept entirely separate , though it will be seen that a number of administrative procedures reflect a direct link . |
| 6 | Crown Court judges differ from lay magistrates in a number of important respects ( though it could be said that their ideologies are similar ) . |
| 7 | Secondly , the formal analysis which is second nature to a Western critic can be fruitful , even though it could be argued that this is a way of interpreting the objects of an unfamiliar culture rather than a description . |
| 8 | Therefore the actual payments are similar in Cantal and Powys , though the effect of the Sheepmeat Regime in the UK gave the Powys hill farmer an extra £2.08 per ewe ( on 1.34 million sheep ) in 1982 , though it could be argued that if an upland farmer in the UK can make use of the Sheepmeat Regime and claims its payments plus HLCAs , his farm should not be in the LFA at all . |
| 9 | The first three and the last have obvious economic implications , the other priorities have long-term political value — though it could be argued that even these will provide indirect economic benefits . |
| 10 | Such groups can properly be described in terms of free association within a generally accepted cultural diversity , though it must be noted that even here , in many cases , the diversity is established by these initiatives , rather than prepared for them , and that in the cases of particular branches of an art the initiatives often involve significant local conflict . |
| 11 | As emperor , Augustus gave financial compensation and some booty back , though it must be said that such acts of generosity were inspired less by guilt than by political revenge against cities that had supported his rival , Mark Antony : the returned booty was Antony 's plunder . |
| 12 | With these human problems Wordsworth was deeply concerned , though it must be admitted that a superficial reading of his poetry gives the impression that he ran as hard as he could to get away from them . |
| 13 | It is not generally realized that he did write on such topics , though it must be admitted that a frontal attack on the factory system was not likely to be poetically successful . |
| 14 | Unlike Stalin and Khruschev , Elena did not use her dilettante approach to science to promote a bogus figure like the Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko — though it must be admitted that Nicolae Ceauşescu 's interventions in agricultural practice often recalled the half-baked interference of Lysenko 's patron , Khruschev . |
| 15 | The process has become so refined that we even had a section called ‘ Oenology ’ , though it must be admitted that this eventually had to be re-named to ‘ Study of Wine . ’ |
| 16 | Though it must be remembered that this is no a priori scheme imposed upon the appearances , but rather an interpretation gradually distilled from them by prolonged contemplation . |
| 17 | There is at least one instance of an aedile of a pagus , although we might suspect that the praefectus pagi of the Gallic Epotes lies outside the normal run of local government officials , though it must be remembered that magistrates could appoint prefects to act for them in their absence . |
| 18 | In a sense , evacuation did provide a shock to public consciousness and a ‘ throwing together of social classes ’ ( though it must be remembered that most hosts , like most evacuees , were working-class ) . |
| 19 | This is not enough , for it is also necessary to ‘ think these differences in rhythm and punctuation in their foundation , in their type of articulation , displacement and torsion which harmonizes these different times with one another ’ — though it must be added that this begs the question of how such harmonization is achieved . |
| 20 | The Mizar-Alcor pair is of this type , though it must be added that a telescope shows Mizar itself to be made up of two rather unequal components . |
| 21 | Barth travels far and wide through the Bible , from Genesis to Revelation , and digests , criticises , and re-states a vast amount of material from the previous history of Christian thought , and from contemporary discussion — much of this in lengthy pages of tiny print , which readers are sometimes relieved to discover can be passed over without loss of the main drift ( though it should be said that some of the finest passages are to be found in the small print ) . |
| 22 | It may be advisable ( Clause 22.02 ) to include some provision in this regard in the partnership agreement , though it should be recognised that enforcement through the courts is impossible , depending as it does on the consent of a client who is not privy to the agreement . |
| 23 | We use the dynamic competitive firm operating under spot price uncertainty as the vehicle for our analysis , though it should be emphasized that it is not the firm per se that interests us but , rather , the risk , the dynamics , the complexity , and the optimality . |
| 24 | For such people any contact with the Court would have been the ultimate in defilement — though it should be noted that some of the husbands showed less scruple in accepting governmental places , even to the extent of standing for elections and taking the oath of loyalty to the Emperor and the Constitution . |
| 25 | Turnover fell by over 60 per cent in the body plant in the same period , though it should be noted that unemployment was rising in Sweden and therefore turnover rates in SAAB as a whole were falling , though less fast than in the body shop . |
| 26 | These two creatures — Blessed and the yak — are indistinguishable in build and hairiness , though it should be noted that the latter moves on all fours and has horns . |
| 27 | The Spaak Report was unveiled for public debate in March 1956 in a special session of the ECSC Common Assembly , where only one vote was registered against its proposals ( though it should be noted that the extremes of the political spectrum were not represented in Strasbourg ) . |
| 28 | The lavishness of specification is appropriate to a country which still , in spite of economic recession , is by most standards a very wealthy one , though it should be noted that the document is far from describing typical or current practice : this is what the two associations concerned regard as logical developments to be pursued during the next decade in line with the best available practice . |
| 29 | Galbraith 's views have been widely criticised , most frequently on grounds of exaggeration , though it should be noted that he does not suggest that the revised sequence has replaced the accepted sequence , but that there is a complex inter-action between the two . |
| 30 | These positions are often classified as ( a ) idealist and ( b ) materialist , though it should be noted that in ( b ) materialist explanation is commonly reserved to the other , ‘ primary ’ , activities , leaving ‘ culture ’ to a version of the ‘ informing spirit ’ , of course now differently based and not primary but secondary . |