Example sentences of "though [pron] [noun pl] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those arms were my arms — even though my arms were still lazily resting among the rainbow petals . |
| 2 | The title is imitated from the delightful Ivy and Stevie ( about Ivy Compton-Burnett and Stevie Smith by Kay Dick , though my materials are very different from hers and therefore the pattern that I shall construct from them must also be very different . |
| 3 | This morning you mysteriously slide me a note telling me to ask you out and now you claim I 'm not really a journalist even though my credentials were thoroughly checked out by your plant manager before he let me near the place . |
| 4 | The doctor sent us back to work even though my eyes were really bad . |
| 5 | Though their functions were only 200 yards apart , the thorny issue of who will attend the royal wedding has caused a huge gulf between them . |
| 6 | Neither have I suggested anything from Noel Coward , Somerset Maugham or Terence Rattigan , even though their plays are continually being performed . |
| 7 | These men did not describe themselves as Zuwayi hurr , but even though their activities were largely circumscribed by their police work , they maintained some activities which were typical of a free Zuwaya . |
| 8 | Other internal Scottish Region expresses to Aberdeen and Inverness also became part of the Provincial empire , even though their carriages were still branded ‘ InterCity ’ for many years after sectorisation . |
| 9 | The jawless fish , even though their heads were heavily plated with bone , had chinks in their armour to accommodate eyes . |
| 10 | But when many people die from known carcinogenic work-conditions or their employer 's refusal to put right unsafe equipment , machinery , or buildings , this is normally seen as a ‘ disaster ’ , even though their deaths were easily avoidable . |
| 11 | She could have taken herself off to the local Italian with her child and a book of her own , for Kate also likes reading though her tastes are less morbific . |
| 12 | The overall appearance of the house is unchanged in this process , though its components are continually being replaced . |
| 13 | For this time it was an army , no less , ten thousand strong , though its actions were still those of simple border reivers . |
| 14 | A basic group of about thirty singers swelled on some orchestral occasions to 240 , and over three decades gave several London concerts each year , prepared with a care for detail unique in Britain at the time , though its effects were later attacked as too calculated , even ‘ effeminate ’ , and many regretted the drift from a pure part-song repertoire to grandiose ‘ mixed concerts ’ with popular soloists . |
| 15 | The assertion that Derrida 's work incurs a form of relativism is thus exactly to the point , though its implications are rather different from those generally assumed in such a complaint . |
| 16 | Minton , himself , still attended dinners and parties given by Lehmann , even though his interests were now drawing him away from the kind of society that Lehmann represented . |
| 17 | The Second Book of his Concerti ( 1607 ) actually contains a monodic ‘ Missa Dominicalis ’ with continuo , though his textures are often contrapuntal and have no very close affinity , except in coloratura , with the secular monody which was developing at this time . |
| 18 | TOWA WAS BORN IN JAPAN , and though his parents were also born there , his grandparents were Korean and so is his passport . |
| 19 | The man looked to be asleep though his eyelids were only half-closed . |
| 20 | Though his eyes are mainly on the lucrative US Seniors Tour , Jacklin also plans to lend support to the more recently established European Seniors circuit . |
| 21 | Having marched from Inverness along the side of Loch Ness he waited for a day in the hope that more pack-horses would turn up , but when none were forthcoming left behind most of his supplies and provisions , though his men were still heavily burdened as they crossed the mountains in search of the enemy ; roads in the Highlands , and local sources of supply , were almost non-existent . |
| 22 | Though in some ways Colin was quite close to his drivers — closer to some than to others — he was , in financial matters , something of a cheese-parer and though his sponsors were generally reasonably generous , even at the height of Lotus 's reputation he neither enjoyed the kind of largesse available to some teams nor , with his many other commitments and his fairly flamboyant life style , could devote all of what he did receive to his team . |
| 23 | You may be able to sue a negligent surveyor or go to arbitration , but you are likely to be the loser , though your interests are now ( since April 1989 ) better protected in law . |
| 24 | ‘ Come now and let us reason together saith the Lord : though your sins be as scarlet , they shall be as white as snow ; though they be red like crimson , they shall be as wool . ’ |