Example sentences of "though it is [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adults and children spend time learning to read and write so that they may recover and renew what is best even though it is all sadly threatened again by those who destroyed it a generation ago . |
| 2 | Now though it is all very secure for me so I will not be going back , ’ she said . |
| 3 | There is so much to see , even though it is all basically made of the same ingredients . |
| 4 | It was a well-known fact that not every bishop and abbot could be a holy man , though it is astonishing how many were . |
| 5 | One can only guess how these drugs were originally recognized , though it is easy enough to imagine how the fermented juice of squashed grapes began to be enjoyed . |
| 6 | I have heard reports that it can be glimpsed in binoculars , but even with my × 20 I have been unable to find it — though it is clear enough in a 15-cm reflecting telescope , and I can just make it out with my 7.6-cm refractor . |
| 7 | It seems likely that there was a greater abundance of water in the past , though it is unlikely ever to have been as large as the abundance of water on the Earth . |
| 8 | We need not concern ourselves with its detailed definition , though it is precise enough for those in the know . |
| 9 | Though it is tougher now for a supplier to do business with America 's carmakers , there are compensations . |
| 10 | In contrast the long-wave school focuses more precisely on technology , though it is notable that much of the debate within that school has been about what causes technological change and how that change should be seen as part of a wider system . |
| 11 | Low achievement and social disadvantage are clearly associated , though it is important not to assume that there is a simple relation between them . |
| 12 | I do n't think I have been fooled by artefacts , or overinterpreted my findings , though it is obvious even to me , let alone a critical outsider , that in fitting the data within a temporal cascade I have not formally proved all the necessary biochemical links ; some of my arguments have run dangerously close to the classical trap of assuming that post hoc implies propter hoc ; just because the phosphorylation step precedes the glycoprotein synthesis I can not automatically assume that the latter depends upon the former . |
| 13 | I suppose we are what is called engaged , though it is different somehow . |