Example sentences of "though it is [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Though it is mistaken to suppose that the British made no effort to leave the Masai better than they found them , it is clear that their potential emergence from the colonial period much as they had entered it was something their administrators could in the end accept with equanimity .
2 SunDragon , the Sun Microsystems Inc multi-processor due out on November 10 , will be initially limited to maximum configurations of eight CPUs , we 're told , even though it is bound to talk about a ceiling of twenty-processors which is further down the road .
3 Even though it is known to exist , such discrimination is not easy to pin down and will always be denied when it is challenged .
4 The ( mental ) environment displaces the ego from centre-stage — an important counter cultural theme , of course — though it is articulated using , among others , musical techniques familiar in the official culture .
5 Though it is expected to recover slightly thereafter it will still remain some 25% short of its peak until the end of the century .
6 Though it is thought to have been first run in 1519 , it was not until 1619 that it was endowed by forty-nine local gentlemen .
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