Example sentences of "though we can not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , and perhaps more importantly from the point of view of answering the sceptics , even though we can not directly get at the hidden real natures of things , perhaps our knowledge of appearances will enable us to do so indirectly . |
| 2 | We know , though we can not prove it , that there are some extremely prominent British athletes who have used steroids for years . |
| 3 | It is as though we can not reach an expression that is midway between total holding in and violent , destructive rage . |
| 4 | He seems to have had a good acquaintance with the theory and practice of shoeing , though we can not admit his claim to originality . |
| 5 | Though we can not look at things from all points of view at once , we can at least learn not to pretend that we are doing so . |
| 6 | It is wonky in a way that we can work out , even though we can not see it curving off into any extra fourth dimension . ’ |
| 7 | As for black holes , though we can not be absolutely sure yet , it does now seem that they exist . |
| 8 | It was deliberately defaced in antiquity , but though we can not read the sculptor 's name we can make out that he carved these figures ‘ and those at the back ’ , the east frieze that is . |
| 9 | We may — just — achieve our target of twenty recruits , even though we can not offer financial assistance to the majority of them . |
| 10 | Only comparatively rarely is this word brought into contact with ruach , though we can not expect , and do not find , complete consistency . |
| 11 | The nearly intact process is that which selects major lexical items ( content words ) from the lexicon : hence the patient produces appropriate content words ( though we can not explain why verbs are poorly produced relative to nouns ) . |
| 12 | There is a clue that cuts were made ( though we can not tell how extensive — for , unlike Act 1 , Act 5 was not reprinted in 1693 : it was inherited from the 1692 stockpile ) . |
| 13 | Though we can not imagine that Innocent wrote all these , he appears to have had a close relationship with his chancery . |
| 14 | Further data show that the risk of causing harm by inactivating an essential gene in the host cell , or by recombining to form a pathogen , seems low ( though we can not yet say how low ) . |