Example sentences of "though [pron] be [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The growing use of electrical power made some form of metering essential , so that it could be properly charged for , and Forbes was one of several who invented instruments for this purpose , though his was never widely adopted . |
| 2 | So I told him things I 'd never told anyone — how much I resented Dad for what he 'd done to Mum , and how Mum had suffered , how painful the whole thing had been , though I was only now beginning to feel it . |
| 3 | With a successful press conference behind him , he felt a new confidence in his ability to handle Marjorie , even though she was clearly well launched into one of her periods of being thoroughly tiresome . |
| 4 | Though she was still immaculately groomed , there seemed somehow less poise about her , as if appearances remained , but the will had gone . |
| 5 | The enthusiasm with which Russians accept Bibles from the association was amply demonstrated , even though there are never enough to satisfy the demand . |
| 6 | The substances responsible for this are not known , though they are clearly unequally distributed and this is somehow linked to the circulation of the Cytherean atmosphere though the mechanism is unclear . |
| 7 | Even though they are no longer working or bringing up children , their time is as precious to them as ours is to us . |
| 8 | The permanent swimmers belong to four main groups : the squids ( which are cephalopods — molluscs — related to the octopuses ) ; the bony fish , most of which belong to the group known as the teleosts ; the sharks — which are quite different from the teleosts , though they are also commonly referred to as fish ; and the cetaceans , which are the whales , dolphins and porpoises and are , of course , mammals . |
| 9 | Until recently , it contained a wide group of fish of the kind known generally as haplochromines : that is , they were once classed in the single genus ( see p. 124 ) Haplochromis within the family Cichlidae , though they are now generally placed in several different genera . |
| 10 | The former had a religious significance for the Ancient Egyptians , but sadly they are no longer found in Egypt , though they are still widely distributed in other parts of Africa and Asia . |
| 11 | Ironically , at the time both were leading such hectic lives that even though they were both still living at the family home in Melbourne they had almost no time to spend together . |
| 12 | Though they were standing as far apart as they could , and though they were both fully dressed , her hand flew to her mouth and her eyes widened . |
| 13 | At first , the payment entitled them to go on receiving food-subsidy coupons from the team , even though they were no longer working for it . |
| 14 | Opportunities for wives and children to contribute to the household income varied from place to place , though they were everywhere low paid . |
| 15 | He was a funeral ‘ director ’ rather than a furnisher , and it was to this practice that a number of top-rank funeral furnishers working in London looked — Ballard , Dowbiggin & Holland , J.D. Field , A. France & Son , J. Kenyon , Leverton 's and John Nodes — though they were never quite to match his mastery . |
| 16 | It 's fine walking country in any weather , though it 's probably best avoided on Bank Holidays and summer Sundays . |
| 17 | Yeah , really it 's a frustrating end of it , but working for Time gives me the opportunity to be in these countries and to do a good photoreportage on the country , even though it 's very rarely published . |
| 18 | So IBM is publicly sticking to OS/2 , though it is also quietly hedging its bets by incorporating into its grand scheme other products with many of the same capabilities . |
| 19 | The duppy is the personification of evil and only capable of malicious acts ; at the very least its fetid breath will cause a victim to vomit violently , though it is more often asked to kill via its pernicious touch . |
| 20 | For business the notion that employees are the most valuable ‘ capital item ’ is relatively recent , though it is now widely accepted . |
| 21 | There is , obviously , quite a lot of work being done in the relatively straightforward field of identifying advertising 's effect on sales through econometric methods , though it is still largely confined to about half-a-dozen large agencies and a similarly limited group of client companies . |
| 22 | One of the traditional planks of Labour Party policy in the UK has been to own the " commanding heights ' of the economy , though it is never completely clear what these include . |
| 23 | This very old and handsome breed should be a great deal more valued than it is , though it is much better appreciated overseas than at home , especially in hotter climates . |
| 24 | Raman spectroscopy is also important , even though it is less widely used . |
| 25 | Where a country espouses outward-looking policies , it may continue to behave in many important respects as though it were still domestically focused . |
| 26 | Bridget Hill maintains that wife-beating was common through all levels of society , though it was rather better concealed among the affluent [ Hill , 199–200 ] . |
| 27 | In the next century the practice petered out , though it was still occasionally revived for particularly distinguished visitors , who might expect to have their names recorded on silk or satin rather than plebeian paper . |
| 28 | Sometimes she dared to wonder at the causes for this way of life , for she could see that it did not represent a normal attitude towards society , though it was so deeply bred in her that all aberrations from it were for the rest of her life to seem to her perverse : but when , occasionally , she glimpsed some faint light of causation , she recoiled from it and shut her eyes in horror , preferring the darkness to such bitter illumination . |
| 29 | St Wulstan 's began with more than 300 beds , though it was never entirely filled . |
| 30 | With an effort , she made herself look with interest around his office , though it was really beautifully furnished and her initial pretence changed to frank admiration . |