Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] though " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some strange , probably mildly salacious , reason , it is the ‘ breeches ’ that popular interest has fastened on though , etymologically , there are other words of equal interest . |
| 2 | Their needs can then be addressed separately though not ignored . ’ |
| 3 | A strong base of parental involvement is unlikely to be shed even though membership of the group of active parents constantly changes as children move on to the next stage of education . |
| 4 | Remember , however , when deleting sections of text , that the instruction marks added by the word-processor must also be deleted even though you can not see them . |
| 5 | The NRA assessment also believes that increased monitoring , providing more accurate information , has led to some stretches of water being downgraded even though they are probably no worse than ten years ago . |
| 6 | This book is concerned primarily with business secrets and so such issues as marital confidences and privacy are not considered even though they may occasionally have commercial value . |
| 7 | However , in practice the courts tend to impose higher sentences for assaults on the police , and it is therefore worth noting that this offence is committed even though D was unaware that he was striking a police-officer . |
| 8 | There is a crime of gross indecency with or towards a child under 14 , which may be committed even though there is no indecent assault on the child by the adult — by inviting the child to touch the genitalia of the adult , for example . |
| 9 | The Government took the view that the distinction between public and private was meritless , partly because in the course of the miners ' dispute , summonses brought under the 1936 Act , section 5 were dismissed because the persons charged were able to show that they were on National Coal Board or other private property , and no offence was committed even though the victims of the threats were on the public highway . |
| 10 | No offence is committed even though this notice will have no effect ( see section 5 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act , paragraph 9–03 above ) . |
| 11 | The ideal thing to do in such a situation is to praise the dog lavishly when he is caught even though deep in your heart you would like to strangle him ! |
| 12 | Moodie led from the start and never looked like being caught even though late in the race Joey Dunlop put in a spurt and was in second place with one lap to go . |
| 13 | Therefore , there seem to be two bases on which a contractual term can be attacked even though it does not attempt to restrain a party after the contractual period had ended . |
| 14 | Car and van were written off though no one was hurt . |
| 15 | On Oct. 12 the United States Senate voted to give US$20,000,000 in non-military aid to the non-communist Cambodian resistance , to be channelled openly though government agencies rather than covertly through the CIA as in the past . |
| 16 | So the household 's demand for money has risen even though its income has remained unchanged . |
| 17 | They may be regarded as having been , at central government level , ideologically inspired : that is , undertaken either on the view that the possibility of rescuing a failed , conventionally organised enterprise would serve to promote Socialism in a neo-Marxist version of it absolutely opposed to Capitalism , and that the occasion was one which must not be missed even though the odds against success were heavy ; or in a spirit of uncritical idealism , sure that the ideology guaranteed success , that the gloomy appraisal was therefore wrong and the distinction between co-operative means and socialist ends a carping irrelevance . |
| 18 | But Mr Lyall will not take anything for granted even though Ipswich are 10 points clear at the top . |
| 19 | It would also seem that the time before adoption for such children is quite long , that some for whom adoption was the plan will not be adopted even though they will stay with their new families , and that long-term support by specialist workers will be necessary for many of these children . |
| 20 | Despite these soaring levels of homelessness , hardly any affordable housing is being built even though the construction industry is calling for jobs . |
| 21 | The standard meaning to be attributed to ‘ reasonable grounds for belief ’ is that if the decision-maker has some such grounds his decision will be upheld even though a court might differ . |
| 22 | On the facts of Lawrence the accused 's conviction for theft was upheld even though the victim intended to transfer property . |
| 23 | A finding of unlawful discrimination may be made even though the employer has no intention to discriminate . |
| 24 | ‘ In any family proceedings in which a question arises with respect to the welfare of any child , the court may make a section 8 order with respect to the child if — … ( b ) the court considers that the order should be made even though no such application has been made . |
| 25 | Mr Lang remains convinced that savings are still there to be made even though he appears to accept that these will be less than originally envisaged . |
| 26 | This really means relationship by marriage , but naturalists used it to mean family relationship , recognizing that horses and donkeys were closely related even though they denied any actual evolutionary connections . |
| 27 | In Deerness v John R Keeble & Son ( Brantham ) Ltd ( 1982 ) The Times , 18 October this rule was applied even though the defendants had made an interim payment after the plaintiff issued a writ which he subsequently failed to serve . |
| 28 | Nowadays , diabetes is understood and in general is accepted even though hypoglycaemic ( too little sugar in the blood ) attacks , from taking too much insulin relative to body requirements , can result in strange behaviour which may at times have tragic consequences , as indeed can misdiagnosis ( usually as drunkenness ) from hyperglycaemia ( too much sugar in the blood ) in untreated diabetes . |
| 29 | ( Eg if ‘ Painting ’ existed in the document and the search text : was ‘ paint ’ , the ‘ Paint ’ in ‘ Painting ’ would be selected even though it has an initial capital and is part of another word . ) |
| 30 | If SunSoft does the port it costs $150,000 , but that 's apparently $150,000 every time it needs to be done even though SunSoft has to change only 5% of the code , an activity that takes only seven to ten days . |