Example sentences of "even though [pron] [vb base] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , oh yes , I 'm sure I 'm not saying that 's the only thing that controls people 's food intake I mean clearly there are things cultural some cultures , the Japanese seem to love eating raw fish , I mean how they can bring themselves to do it I do now know , I mean the raw is I do n't think I 'd want to eat again , but er erm not always if they were cooked either , but erm the , the er and certainly if you look at the Australian Aborigines even though we take the Australian Aborigines as our kind of primeval people , they have astonishing food taboos , I mean their attitudes to food are very very culturally er effective to , to a quite extraordinary extent , some so that somebody somebody discovered that eating a tabooed food by accident , they 'll get very ill , a kind of psychosomatic illness . |
| 2 | There may perhaps be properties which are evidence-transcendent , by which we mean that it is always possible that they be absent even though we have the best possible evidence of their presence . |
| 3 | Even though we want the judgements of young doctors to be securely based on the evidence , we want to feel that they have not just assiduously acquired the necessary knowledge , but also have immediate first-hand understanding of it in practice , having conducted patient examinations , observed relevant operations , and so forth . |
| 4 | To feed them on food which does them no good at all even though they like the taste would be irresponsible on waters where carp baits are the major part of the fish 's diet . |
| 5 | Their movements must , therefore , have literal implications even though they use the flowing romantic style originated by Taglioni and Perrot in La Sylphide and Giselle . |
| 6 | Australia and New Zealand have a special problem with ‘ corked ’ corks , even though they buy the best quality , because the moulds flourish in the warm , damp conditions of the sea voyage from Europe . |
| 7 | ‘ Western financial institutions operate a divide and rule policy : they strike sweetheart deals with individual governments which benefit Third World elites even though they harm the poor . |
| 8 | Of course not all policemen are in absolute positions of command even though they represent the maintenance of structure in more than a symbolic way ; and few can move into communitas to experience the temptations described above . |
| 9 | It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent . |
| 10 | The most effective way of doing this is to actively trade on the information acquired even though they run the risk of being prosecuted . |
| 11 | Even though I suspect the author works for Blue Peter the idea is a quite good one and computer hobbyists will enjoy using this package . |
| 12 | I can not accept that I should adopt a live-and-let-live neutral attitude to hawks and pigeons even though I accept the fact that we share very similar body mechanisms and an identical world . |
| 13 | They should be respected as people , even though you dislike the habits . |
| 14 | Emotionally you 're a child , even though you have the body of a very desirable woman , and I have no intention of becoming involved with you . |
| 15 | And there is a little wrinkle there as well , and th if , if they , if your parents are allowed to live there rent free , even though you own the house , you wo n't be liable to capital gains on disposal , er if they , if they actually pass the ownership of the house to you while they 're alive , and then you continue to let them live rent free , as I understand it , you w there would be no capital gains liability on disposal . |