Example sentences of "though it [adv] [verb] " 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 | Even so , the machine drill certainly speeded up drilling operations though it also lessened the need for a previously vital part of the miner 's essential skill . |
| 3 | One , marked by relatively high values for succinic acid , is found predominantly in northern Europe , though it also occurs with lower succinic acid contents in Miocene formations exposed on the banks of the river Bazeu in Rumania . |
| 4 | During the nineteenth century quinine was the firm 's most profitable product , though it also manufactured many other fine chemicals , including cocaine , ether , borax , and citric acid . |
| 5 | In general it may be said that ‘ Cromwell 's decade ’ saw a doubling of the ordinary revenue of the Crown — though it also saw an increased expenditure , especially on the household , administration , defence , and Ireland . |
| 6 | The maximum utility of a community may often involve , says Pareto , ‘ a sacrifice for the subject classes ’ though it also entails an increase in the utility of the governing elites . |
| 7 | AY 's defence centred around the claim that it only owed a duty of care to Alkar , as its auditor , and not to WG , even though it also audited the WG group accounts . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The district benefited from the fact that it had comparative information on performance from a large range of providers which enabled them to take a more detached view of the strengths and weaknesses of its own unit , even though it also increased the complexity of contracting . |
| 10 | Though it also has been scarred by the decline of the region 's economy and property markets — it lost $48.5m last year , mainly because of bad property loans — it has suffered less than Bank of Boston . |
| 11 | In this respect the UK system , though it also has substantial defects , is superior , as I shall now try to establish . |
| 12 | Such a move could underpin rent and asset values , though it also has to be pointed out that there is currently an over supply of good quality office space in the City . |
| 13 | The public-interest objective is harder to reject , because it is eminently reasonable that public policy should be concerned with more than just economic efficiency , though it clearly generates considerable uncertainty for firms about what they may and may not do . |
| 14 | As the toga increased in social importance it also gained in size , though it clearly remained a difficult garment to wear . |
| 15 | Every thing was alright , though it rather took the wind out of my sails to know that I would n't get to speak to him after all . |
| 16 | In the former slave economies this can not be explained on political grounds , since the South was conquered and the old plantation aristocracy was at least temporarily powerless , though it soon returned . |
| 17 | At the end of one hour her back was aching as if it had been kicked all over by a mule ; but she went on doggedly , though it soon became absolute agony . |
| 18 | To save precious fuel , sheep were occasionally used on the front field instead of a motor-mower to keep the grass in check , though it probably did not matter too much , as for a short period the field could no longer be used anyway for Games , owing to the telegraph poles and other obstacles laid and dug there to thwart landings by German gliders and paratroopers . |
| 19 | Though it probably did not benefit her economically as much as has sometimes been thought , it endowed Britain with a great colonial empire and virtually unlimited opportunities of further expansion . |
| 20 | Black mustard is the one with the best and most pungent flavour , and has become naturalized in Britain and America , though it probably originated in the Middle East . |
| 21 | Though it nearly choked her , Robbie swallowed certain feminist instincts . |
| 22 | Once she heard the sound of the Holy Ghost , which was like a pair of bellows in her ear , though it later turned into the sound of a dove , then of a robin that sang only in her right ear . |
| 23 | A lot of chemical reactions are actually reversible , but the tend to be mainly going very much in one direction , so we just say we just write it as though it only went in one direction . |
| 24 | A Federal Housing Act ( 1949 ) provided funds for slum clearance and housing for those on low incomes , though it only scratched the surface of an increasingly serious problem . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The language of the letter itself made her shiver — the ‘ we hereby , being the parents of one Oreste Romagnoli ’ , seemed so important and the ending , though it only gave the date of the document and names of the witnesses , truly portentous . |
| 27 | Indeed , by the middle of that year critics were saying that the cuts imposed at the time of the IMF crisis may have been too harsh , and that fixed investment in manufacturing capacity needed to be stepped up , even though it actually rose by 8 per cent in 1978 . |
| 28 | Its knowledge of its home range , however , is not restricted to these tracks , even though it seldom leaves them . |
| 29 | Opera soon ceased to be a severely intellectual form of art and with the opening of the first public opera-house in Venice in 1637 it ceased to be an exclusively aristocratic one , though it seldom flourished without princely or aristocratic support . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |