Example sentences of "though [pron] be [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Though I was exhausted and had managed only nine miles , it had been a better day than the first .
2 I think the British end somehow managed to start itself up — though I 'm damned if I see how . ’
3 Though I 'm tempted when you persist in playing the innocent . ’
4 He came out with some good one-liners , though I 'm told that his agent employs a script-writer to cobble up these spontaneous flashes of wit . ’
5 Lucenzo was smiling for a special reason , though she was darned if she knew why .
6 I have seen our old matriarch walk between two younger antagonists and break up a fight with a snarl , even though she was aged and barely able to walk .
7 Though one is lost and another damaged , the survivor is sent off into space with the forest when the scientist destroys himself with his ship to conceal the fact that the forest still exists .
8 People who were incredibly enthusiastic at first dropped out because they thought the language barrier would be a major problem , even though they were assured that an English-speaking teacher would accompany the children .
9 So , er , we 're getting people saying it 's impossible to pay this even though they were asked if they could pay it at the the the time it was given sometime last July .
10 It denies the existence of a general obligation to obey the law even in a reasonably just society , though it is argued that just governments may exist , and that in certain circumstances their existence is preferable to any alternative method of social organization .
11 They include ‘ speed restraint points ’ ( which appear similar to speed tables or raised crossings ) ; speed control bends of more than 90 degrees deflection and with tight radii and mountable shoulders ; speed control islands to interrupt unavoidably long and straight stretches of road where speeds would otherwise be excessive ; and speed control humps , though it is warned that these ‘ ought not to be used in new housing schemes when other speed reducing features would be effective . ’
12 The differing viewpoints are here polarised into the two major value positions set out below , though it is recognised that these positions represent relatively extreme points on a dimension of views , rather than two all-embracing categories .
13 There is a carved cupboard here dated 1687 , though it is believed that the cottage is older .
14 Nor were beards a feature of traditional Republican portraits , though it is said that in the early Republic the Romans wore beards and long hair .
15 It is expected that the emphasis will be on the 1965 model , though it is hoped that those students who choose this as the topic for more detailed study will learn something or earlier and later development .
16 For example , though it is known that some 80 per cent of pedestrian fatalities in Britain occur on built-up roads , statistics are not available separately for residential areas .
17 Such major physical impacts are fairly easy to assess , but not enough work has yet been done to assess the effect of visitors on wildlife itself , though it is known that shy species will decline , while common species will often increase , and that fauna both on land and in water will decline faster than flora ( Liddle and Scorgie , 1980 ) .
18 The history of the domestication of many of the fruit trees of the tropics may therefore never be disentangled , though it is known that some of them at least , like the duku and lanseh , forms of Lansium domesticum ( Meliaceae ) , are apomicts .
19 It is not readily identifiable with × 12 or lower power , but is easy with × 20 , though it is scattered and not at all conspicuous .
20 the university has a new duty , we are told : there is a besieging host , everincreasing , of Indians , Africans , Commonwealth people in general , Levantines , who aspire to become university teachers of English literature , and must therefore have a PhD — preferably a Cambridge one ( though it is admitted that a large proportion of them could n't hope to take the English Tripos with much credit — even if they could pass ) .
21 Schools could work forwards or backwards in time ( though it is expected that at all times there will be reference to time-lines , and time-charts , and that attention will be given to the question " when did this happen in the past ? " ) .
22 This was called in East Anglia jading a horse ; and it was from this practice more than any other that the horsemen sometimes earned the name of horse-witches because they were able to make the horse stand as though it were paralysed or bewitched .
23 Amidst these grand claims for the ‘ effects ’ of writing , Olson suppresses the qualification cited above that ‘ whether meaning can be made explicit in text is perhaps less critical than the belief that it can ’ and proceeds as though it were agreed and verifiable that writing can and does have such effects because of its intrinsic qualities .
24 Both Soviet and British spheres of influence should be discouraged as far as possible , though it was accepted that such spheres would be among the inescapable facts of contemporary life .
25 The Black Report into inequalities in health ( Townsend and Davidson 1982 ) has already passed into the main body of research , though it was commissioned and published , albeit unwillingly , by government .
26 By 1979 The Economist was implying that the government 's new cost control team under Sir Derek Rayner ( head of Marks and Spencer ) had effectively killed PAR , though it was anticipated that this body would do similar work by introducing business methods of accounting into government .
27 Some schemes were , moreover , undertaken , even though it was known that they would make a loss , because of the statutory duty to supply .
28 Even though it was suggested that such crises may at some point lead to a collapse of the system , this is not inevitable nor even highly probable .
29 All Dobry 's major recommendations for changes in the system were rejected , though it was stressed that their objectives could typically be achieved if local authorities adopted ‘ the most efficient working methods .
30 Colonel Lamb 's wound was above the knee , the report said , though it was feared that he might lose the leg .
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