Example sentences of "though it is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Action outside the school system is necessary also ; though it is outside the brief of this work to investigate the wider social arena in detail . |
| 2 | There is no space here , central though it is to Callinicos ' argument as a whole , to do other than note how this perspective is then deployed not only to counter poststructuralism but also significantly to modify the position of its main critic , Habermas . |
| 3 | One might say that the ‘ candid camera ’ technique used for some television programmes , where people have tricks played on them for the benefit of the viewers , is rather in this mode of observation , though it is to be hoped that social researchers would not encourage people to make fools of themselves in the way television producers do . |
| 4 | Even if it had , the selfhood would be in the replicas of the gene scattered over different bodies ; that the gene , analogous though it is to species rather than to individual , has to be taken as the unit , is precisely because it is more useful for explanation to speak of the selfish gene than of the altruistic replica . |
| 5 | No wonder , then , if Lucky Jim , dedicated though it is to Larkin , was thought to be about life in Swansea University College , which it never was . |
| 6 | Nothing of this was to be found in mainstream pre-conciliar Roman ecclesiology ( though it is to be found in 1950s books representative of the ‘ new theology ’ by scholars like de Lubac and Congar , writers under much official suspicion at the time ) . |
| 7 | Interesting though it is to be aware of the way in which these various theological traditions bear fruit in the mystics ' accounts of their experience , it is important to remember that they can not fully account for this experience . |
| 8 | Useful though it is for many jobs , the sheer power of the big-capacity Cummins engine puts a fair bit of strain on other parts of the tractor . |
| 9 | Australia and New Zealand , originally settled by white Europeans and still following a generally Protestant tradition , are usually regarded together — though it is worth noting that if their native aborigines and Maoris still dominated their populations , both countries would be regarded as South-East Asian , joined ethnically and culturally across the Arafura Sea . |
| 10 | This is an ancient road , the middle one of the three Roman roads which went over the Pyrenees , though it is worth pursuing all the way to the frontier , in my view , only if you want to enter Spain ( the small , walled town of Jaca , half an hour or so 's drive down the other side , is extremely attractive ) . |
| 11 | The influence of Plato , though difficult to exhume from the centuries of interpretation , seems to relate more to the ‘ process ’ and ‘ quality ’ of studies than to their ‘ object ’ or ‘ content ’ , though it is worth noting the paradigmatic nature of mathematics and the primacy of philosophy in his scheme of things . |
| 12 | Socially , the employee dismissed following a conviction will — whether the dismissal was fair or otherwise — find re-employment difficult , though it is worth noting that at least one tribunal has decided that such an employee is not bound to disclose the reason for his dismissal to a prospective employer ( Mackin v J. Carr Ltd , 1974 IRLR ) . |
| 13 | Since his answers are relatively familiar , we need not recapitulate them here , though it is worth noting that Marx resisted the tendency , which elsewhere grew constantly more powerful , to separate economic analysis from its historic social contexts . |
| 14 | No side has won successive grand slams since Wavell Wakefield 's England of 1924 , though it is worth recalling that what has become known as the Irish Problem deprived Wales in Barry John 's farewell year , 1972 ; they won handsomely against England , France and Scotland but like the Scots dared not venture to Dublin at the height of The Troubles . |
| 15 | My head feels as though it is on fire . |
| 16 | Like all analogies , this one can mislead as well as help , but if we do feel that a reasonable case is being presented to us , and that the internal evidence of the research fits together coherently and comes to a result which is ‘ beyond reasonable doubt ’ then we may be prepared to accept this piece of research , based though it is on informal interviews . |
| 17 | The other vineyards were all wiped out in the phylloxera epidemic of the last century and never replanted ; but lonely though it is on the local wine lists , Irouléguy will do nicely ; I have never got much beyond the stage of dividing wines into nice and nasty when it comes to describing them , so all I shall say is that Irouléguy is nice . |
| 18 | This is not used widely in Britain , though it is on the Continent , in China and India , where small local waste digestion plants are very common , providing cheap energy for the community . |
| 19 | Anyone who decides to intervene in a family 's problems , even though it is at the family 's request , has a professional duty to be able to demonstrate the effectiveness ( or otherwise ) of the methods used . |
| 20 | There is a vast humour in the storytelling , though it is of the most grim kind . |
| 21 | For the purposes of exposition , though it is of necessity an oversimplification , we can say that objects of feeling , particularly other people , encountered in the outer world are mapped subjectively in some way on to the inner world . |
| 22 | Altogether , Scorpius has much to offer , though it is of course best seen from southern latitudes , where it can pass over the zenith . |
| 23 | This is no victory for women , even though it is of very important material benefit to them . |
| 24 | In Italy some development in the south has occurred , though it is of a fragile and unbalanced nature , and it is not seriously suggested that this area is yet capable of self-sustained growth . |
| 25 | What is being claimed here is that , though it is of great importance , the complexity of the total set of sequential and prosodic components of intonation and of paralinguistic features makes it a very difficult thing to teach . |
| 26 | As Gandalf points out , all Sauron and Saruman and the orcs have done between them is ‘ bring Pippin and Merry with marvellous speed , and in the nick of time , to Fangorn , where otherwise they would never have come at all ! ’ — and so , one might say , though it is beyond Gandalf 's knowledge at the time , to rouse the Ents , overthrow Saruman , save Rohan , and free Théoden to make his decisive intervention at Minas Tirith . |
| 27 | Distant though it is from the Gulf , the Maghreb has been deeply affected by the war . |
| 28 | Different though it is from the practical syllogism , it resembles it in that its conclusions are always revisable in the light of further information , which imposes itself as relevant whenever it does turn out to alter spontaneous reaction . |
| 29 | That , though it is from a novel , sounds like one for the seminar . |
| 30 | My conception is related , also , in that both conceptions derive in a direct way from our pre-theoretical , first-person grasp of consciousness , as can not be said of any of behaviourism , causalism , or functionalism , nor really of the logico-linguistic criterion , derived though it is from Brentano . |