Example sentences of "and though in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The word translated ‘ God ’ is plural in form , and though in the vast majority of its occurrences in the Old Testament it means ‘ God ’ , it can equally well mean ‘ gods ’ , or ‘ divine or supernatural beings ’ , including river demons and evil spirits of the night . |
| 2 | Decisions in a compliance system are graduated in character ( Eisenberg , 1976 ) , and though in rare cases matters are ultimately settled by adjudication , they are normally controlled by the parties themselves in private , intimate negotiations which rely on bargaining , not adjudication . |
| 3 | I knew he 'd fought James on it tooth and nail , and though in all honesty I felt I 'd won him round to some extent since , the prejudices remained beneath the surface of benignity , waiting only for some unwary blunder on my part to crack the surface and let them burst through . |
| 4 | It looks as though there had been a Phoenician settlement on the island which introduced this strain ; and though in pottery a true Geometric style supervenes , the eastern tradition seems to linger on , especially in fine gold work , to link up with the orientalising phase proper . |
| 5 | Much of Taskopruzade 's work is concerned with scholars of the period before there was what might properly be called a learned hierarchy ; and though in his own lifetime a hierarchy of learned offices existed and certainly the basic principles of the hierarchy had been formulated it was by no means as thoroughly elaborated or rigid as it was to become even in the few decades after his death . |
| 6 | Russian statesmen were therefore often badly informed about the politics of the outside world ; and though in 1672 there was an effort to compile for their guidance an official manual of the available information about foreign states this was not published for well over a century . |