Example sentences of "though it may [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though it may do nothing to alter the circumstances , many people feel much calmer and more able to cope with the situation after ‘ a good cry ’ . |
| 2 | It is aimed at minds rather than bodies ( though it uses bodies ) and its intent is not to torment ( though it may do so ) . |
| 3 | And y am I right , am I right in saying that you 'd say that e even though it may exist in itself , that it may even be , in fact be less in the flats than it is in the , in the wi in that in the wider area ? |
| 4 | The scheme includes off-the-job training and further education of a minimum of three months , though it may extend to six months , either on a day or block release basis , together with work experience periods with employers structured to give trainees a wide range of jobs . |
| 5 | The first structures to be considered must be the defences themselves , especially those which protected only an essential core , even though it may extend beyond the government installations . |
| 6 | On the other hand , the mere fact that money is paid under protest will not give rise of itself to the inference of such an agreement ; though it may form part of the evidence from which it may be inferred that the payee did not intend to close the transaction : see Maskell v. Horner [ 1915 ] 3 K.B . |
| 7 | But as is already clear from what was said in the last chapter , the irreducibility thesis , plausible though it may appear at first sight , remains highly vulnerable to criticism and requires important additional assumptions if it is to be taken at all seriously . |
| 8 | I think Chris Patten is right to stand up to the Chinese , even though it may make very little difference in the end . |
| 9 | It is a creation of society , not of individual reasoning or emotion , though it may satisfy both ; and it is for this reason that Durkheim tells us that a psychological interpretation of a social fact is invariably a wrong interpretation . |
| 10 | This reality is not primarily one of sense experience or of the conscious intellect , though it may suffuse and illuminate both . |
| 11 | In carrying out the balancing exercise I , for my part , come down in favour of the freedom of speech even though it may go beyond generally acceptable limits , since there is adequate alternative protection available to a council . |
| 12 | ‘ But it needs to be done , even though it may give offence to the French . ’ |
| 13 | This means that science can have two histories , which constantly intertwine but never resolve , with one evaluated as positive , the other as negative and therefore silently suppressed even though it may remain determining . |
| 14 | Though it may snack on a strawberry , the ground beetle is an ally |
| 15 | We will assume that the evaluation of every occam expression yields a value ( even though it may contain division by zero or an uninitialised identifier ) . |
| 16 | I am not convinced that overt sexual behaviour is essential for the development of indifference , even though it may help . |
| 17 | The potential mobility of non-motorized persons is also enhanced , though it may take some time ( and , probably , more measures ) for the modal split to change significantly . |
| 18 | Of course , some sort of pattern can be teased out of the most disordered subject though it may take half a dozen attempts before a pictorial structure emerges ; such an unhurried approach is not always possible for the long distance traveller . |
| 19 | Perhaps the most useful distinction is to think of other disciplines as studying something else through discourse ; whereas discourse analysis has discourse as its prime object of study , and though it may take excursions into many different fields , must always be careful to return to the main concern . |
| 20 | ‘ All the evidence points to the fact that if people get the right advice at the right time , creditors are more likely to get what is owed to them , even though it may take longer than it would originally have done . |
| 21 | Magazines like NI do change public opinion , though it may take a long , long time . |
| 22 | We either treat as a corporation a group of persons — usually the governing body of the institution , though it may include individuals who are beneficiaries and have no share in the government ( for instance , the scholars of a college ) — or else the property of the institution must be vested in a number of individual trustees , who are bound to apply and deal with it for the purposes of the institution . |
| 23 | ‘ What I 'm gon na do is … ’ ( he raises one finger then looks at it suspiciously , as though it may attack him or at worst disagree with him ) ‘ What I 'm gon na — what I 'm planning — ; all things being — ( thirty-second meaningful pause ) ‘ I mean , anything could happen , right ? |
| 24 | ‘ I think a part of me probably died when I took your job , though it may have been just the settling-down thing . |
| 25 | What Yeroen hoped to gain by his play-acting is not clear , though it may have helped to defuse further aggression . |
| 26 | Jack 's ‘ going with someone ’ , as Karen Black put it , was still Mimi , a relationship which had survived all predictions ; and , though it may have stopped a few magic moments between him and Black , it did not prevent an entanglement with another of his co-stars , Susan Anspach . |
| 27 | Useful though it may have been , I never tried that approach ; I did not have the heart , and I was sure that I always had to leave my intended customer a face-saving way out . |
| 28 | Labyrinths of this type have been found inscribed on tombs in Egypt dating to 3400BC , and the same design occurs on the Cretan coins of the Minoan period , though it may have originated in much earlier times . |
| 29 | The bitter lessons of the early years were learnt and digested ; crude though it may have been , Rome 's attitude towards its conquered peoples was far more effective than that of the nineteenth-century imperialists . |
| 30 | The panel is not cut down though it may have had an adjoining predella and lunette with few areas of paint loss , and the intensity of the original pigments preserved . |