Example sentences of "though [pron] is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Tansley says it is over 58 years since she made her debut in opera and she never did any more , though she is well known in villages in the Guisborough area where her talent has been in demand at concerts . |
| 2 | ‘ We saw her yesterday afternoon and though she is still getting treatment she is better . ’ |
| 3 | The young woman feels curiously as though she is only playing at house once more when she goes into the first flat or home that she can truly call her own . |
| 4 | In the company of work on offer here , the woman artist still finds herself on the defensive though she is laudably engaged in what Roberta Smith calls , the creation of ‘ a new kind of aesthetic back-talk ’ . |
| 5 | In conclusion , though there is no denying the seriousness of the problem , many questions still remain unanswered . |
| 6 | Barbirolli 's famously self-indulgent late Debussy recordings , La Mer and the Nocturnes , really do n't show the great man at his best , though there is no denying the conviction and enormous affection which sir John brings to these pieces . |
| 7 | In addition it was decided only to examine information that is external to the company and available from formal sources even though it is well known ( and was confirmed in discussions with the companies themselves ) that a considerable use is made of internal and informal information . |
| 8 | For example , I wonder why there are no English-speaking contributors to the Panofsky centenary conference , even though it is well known that this approach was most fully developed in the English-speaking world . |
| 9 | However , much of this work is heavily weighted towards the study of individual words , even though it is widely recognized that most vocabulary growth comes from encountering words in the course of reading . |
| 10 | Britain points out that the Bush Administration is still using its political weight in the IMF to block financial relief for Vietnam , even though it is widely recognised that the exodus from Vietnam will only stop when living standards improve . |
| 11 | Even though it is generally recognised that , at best , the principles of operant conditioning described in Verbal Behaviour contribute but a small part to our understanding of the processes of language development , this does not immediately rule out the possibility of employing techniques based upon operant conditioning to help those children who are not developing language in the normal way . |
| 12 | The Act does not define what actually constitutes an artistic work , though it is generally accepted that it would cover any product made by an artist or craftsperson , which is normally unique , hand-made and makes a personal expressive statement . |
| 13 | It is , in fact , remarkably simple for managers to do this , though it is rarely done . |
| 14 | This is the principle , though it is rarely done as nakedly as this . |
| 15 | In short , patchiness , in space and time , is as much a feature of the oceans as it is of land ; indeed , ‘ patchiness ’ is a great principle in ecology — though it is rarely singled out as such . |
| 16 | Such knowledge is always centred in a self even though it is outward looking , searching for power and control of what is other to it . |
| 17 | There is a great deal of scalic movement , though it is mostly hidden by notes leaping out of direction and back again . |
| 18 | A brand new ILE-compatible C compiler has been announced , though it is yet to ship and there are statement of directions regarding REXX and Cobol Compilers . |
| 19 | Supplied on compact disk , NetWare SunLink runs on SunOS 4.1. x operating systems and above , under the Open Look graphical environment , though it is also supplied with a command line interface . |
| 20 | It appears to have undergone reduction in the Endopterygota , though it is probably represented by the dense reticulation present in certain orders of Exopterygota such as the Odonata . |
| 21 | But he stresses that the progress in contemplative experience , reformation in feeling developing from reformation in faith , is part of an organic process of growth to a peace and fulfilment the longing for which is innate in man who may mistakenly and unnaturally think it resides in material circumstances : Scale 2 is pervaded by a sense of the reality of a dimension to human experience beyond the confines of time and sin , though it is only accessed through them . |
| 22 | Nor do I feel compelled to depart from that conclusion by the fact that , under the present practice , a local authority which acts as a relator in a relator action is required to give an undertaking in damages even though it is so proceeding in order to enforce the law in the public interest . |
| 23 | It is not bard to imagine legionaries marching briskly along this track because , even though it is now walled as a result of the nineteenth-century enclosures , it runs straight as a spear across the fell , totally unlike the whirligig roads of the drovers and packmen . |
| 24 | The precise number is unknown ; but in the 1970s , two American biologists , TL Erwin and JC Scott , produced a plausible estimate , of around 10 million , though it is now thought that the true figure may be around 50 million . |
| 25 | Why he did not sustain the promise of the works of the 1890s is not clear , though it is certainly connected with the change to a much more conservative and less experimental architectural climate in Britain in the 1900s , when there was a revival of baroque and French Renaissance architecture ; it may also be to do with Townsend 's own equivocal and confused attitude towards the value of architectural traditions . |
| 26 | The Rheidol line offers some of the most spectacular scenery available on Welsh railways and , as far as railway enthusiasts are concerned , the line still has much to offer even though it is still recovering after being reduced to virtual siding status in the last year 's of British Rail management . |
| 27 | ICL is keeping schtum on the progress of its Texas Instruments Inc Viking-based Model 764 , though it is still shooting for the fourth quarter . |
| 28 | More recent work has demonstrated that the allochthon is not quite as confused as was formerly thought , and the term Argille scagliose has been dropped in Italy ( though it is still used in many other parts of the world ) . |
| 29 | Since airborne sound will travel up through the ceiling into the room above , and from there through the party wall , it may still be a nuisance , even though it is somewhat diminished . |
| 30 | It involves the disinterested pursuit of truth , beauty or goodness , even though it is always mixed up with other motivations such as the search for social importance ( knowledge is power ) , or for status and acceptance , or for the comforts of a dream world , or for the individual self-realisation which involves the establishment of a personal identity . |