Example sentences of "though [pron] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A group collecting around the Birmingham solicitor William Bedford invoked the old legal process of ‘ appeal of murder ’ , generally regarded as obsolete ( though there had been several in the eighteenth century ) . |
| 2 | Though there had been some concern as to what the world 's reaction would be , Wilson had smoothed it over with assurances that the world community could n't deny that America had the right to protect the few hundred of its citizens in Haiti , and to defend the various mining and import/export concessions that had been granted to them . |
| 3 | Though there had been some growth during the previous hundred years this was slow and unspectacular . |
| 4 | Dr Margaret O'Brien , a chartered psychologist at East London Polytechnic and author of The New Man , told the conference : ‘ Though there have been many changes in family life over the century , it is surprising to discover that children seem to have such a traditional view . ’ |
| 5 | There is only one record of a true albino tiger , though there have been many cream-coloured animals . |
| 6 | First , though there have been some marginal changes , most notably in the steady trickle away from the north and west to the south and east , the main features of the regional distribution of population remain the same . |
| 7 | Though there have been some disappointments , the Greens in this country and in Europe are very far from extinct , and are consolidating and reforming themselves to be more effective . |
| 8 | It has been suggested that there is not really a contrast between and , since only occurs in weak syllables and no minimal pairs can be found to show a clear contrast between and in unstressed syllables ( though there have been some ingenious attempts ) . |
| 9 | Doubtless some protestant paramilitaries — though there have been fewer religious persons among them than in the case of the provisionals — hold to similar religious understandings of the necessity of violence under certain circumstances . |
| 10 | There is plenty of evidence of Caribbean influence on the speech of London adolescents , though there has been little systematic study in this area . |
| 11 | The two directives have not yet been enshrined in statute , though there has been much fanciful discussion about what might happen . |
| 12 | It seems that drop-outs at this early stage have remained a serious problem , particularly in rural areas , though there has been some improvement in the retention rates over the whole primary cycle ( SSA to Standard Five ) . |
| 13 | In addition , a proportion of the courses offered are sandwich courses , either of the ‘ thick ’ or ‘ thin ’ variety , though there has been some decline in the relative proportion of sandwich courses available over recent years . |
| 14 | It was Doyle who answered , thoughtfully , as though it had been any ordinary question . |
| 15 | More fully , it looks as though what happens is this . |