Example sentences of "though it is [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the first place it is to be accepted that it is made in wide terms though it is not said that they are so imprecise that there is a doubt as to what is covered by the order . |
| 8 | It is heartening to see the Precautionary Principle being applied to potential risk situations , even though it is not applied more widely throughout the PPG Note . |
| 9 | This is a sort of notional rent payment , though it is not called that because social security does not want to be seen as having returned to paying rents . |
| 10 | There is a fascinating folk-tale about a child 's pre-birth experience which adds weight to this , though it is not reserved to the Kohanim . |
| 11 | For movement and dance , the Pineapple Studios in the same part of town seems to be one of the best there is , though it is not intended primarily for dancers and actors — people from all sorts of professions come along to keep fit . |
| 12 | Despite not strictly working shifts , I recorded abnormal temperatures , probably — though it is not proven — because I had missed so much sleep . |
| 13 | They begin to appear in the first quarter of the eighteenth century , a remnant of the funerary effigy , though it is not recorded that nobles , apart from those of royal blood , ever had them ( Cromwell and General Monck excepted ) . |
| 14 | Later , ladies were forbidden to attend his lectures because of his shocking views and he resigned ( though it is not recorded if he missed the ladies or just their fees ) . |
| 15 | The change in the formula for grossing-up net interest caused some uncertainty , though it is not expected to have any significant impact on the level of net dividends companies pay . |
| 16 | Though it is not known how the two friends met , they were corresponding with each other by 1945 , Vaughan sharing with Minton , in the immediate aftermath of war , his mood of cynical disaffection . |
| 17 | Clérisseau 's knowledge of the Roman baths , which he had studied with Adam , would have been an asset to Cameron , though it is not known what share Clérisseau had in the preparation of Cameron 's book , The Baths of the Romans , which , after various delays , was published in London in 1772 . |
| 18 | This is much more effective at muting impacts than any breast shield and though it is not allowed in competition proper , it removes much of the risk from pre-competition training . |
| 19 | Such a realization may have been fuelled by my existing knowledge of mythology ( though it is not detailed in this respect ) , but it arose in a form that conveyed more in two seconds than two hours of normal thought could produce . |
| 20 | It is , in fact , remarkably simple for managers to do this , though it is rarely done . |
| 21 | This is the principle , though it is rarely done as nakedly as this . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | There is a great deal of scalic movement , though it is mostly hidden by notes leaping out of direction and back again . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |