Example sentences of "even though [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We argue , however , that the process of search for value for money is politically neutral , even though what is decided in that process will not be . |
| 2 | Refrain from finalising important transactions until after Mercury turns to direct motion on the 18th , even though what is offered or suggested around the 4th and 11th appears to fulfil your requirements . |
| 3 | Police worked with the Borough Council which owns the garages ; many were found to have had extra locks fitted , even though no-one 's named as a tenant . |
| 4 | It was a home , her own home , even though everything was scavenged second hand , except for some net curtains , a coffee table and a picture on the wall above the mantelpiece . |
| 5 | Even though we 're seeing overlaps in product lines , there are still market opportunities for each of these groups . ’ |
| 6 | , can I , can I just say , thank you Chairman , but could I just say on two three , I think that one of things that built the partnership was actually the launch of Ludlow , and that all those organizations were there , and helped part of the process , and I think one of the things we need to think about , Chairman , is now we 've got that B status , even though we 're arguing at the fringes , we 've actually got it , is perhaps doing another event like Ludlow , to involve all the organizations that , that , that will be participating in the programme , to give them a , so that they feel a , a common ownership of the programme , they can put forward the projects they want , they feel they are part of the process . |
| 7 | ‘ Even though we are expecting an inflationary increase of 1.9 per cent , our costs have gone up by between 6 per cent and 7 percent . |
| 8 | ‘ Just the knowledge of each other 's being there is great even though we are scattered . |
| 9 | You see , I 'd mentioned the fact that I 'd seen this chap several mornings hanging about in the Cove , so I decided not to take Miss Celia down there for a bit , even though we were having a real Indian summer that year . |
| 10 | Thus in Priest v Last [ 1903 ] 2 KB 148 , a hot water bottle burst causing injury to the purchaser 's wife and it was held that there was a breach of the implied condition even though nothing was said about the purpose . |
| 11 | You just just sign there and that 's cos they ca n't use the tapes without your permission even though they 're destroyed . |
| 12 | Even though they 're coming out on the inside . |
| 13 | A creature of the planning system even though they are designated by the Countryside Commission . |
| 14 | Thus , intertidal zones and estuaries in particular tend to be extremely rich , even though they are battered by waves or scarified by rapid waters , are sometimes dry and sometimes wet , and pose all kinds of chemical problems as the salinity may swing from fresh to super-saturated . |
| 15 | Learning ‘ on the job ’ is the way that most people acquire their skills with desktop publishing but even though they are producing relevant material they often miss out on a lot of the essential background . |
| 16 | Emotions occur in response to actual happenings ; they occur also in response to imagined happenings ; and the latter emotions are real , happening in the present , even though they are called up by unreal situations . |
| 17 | Eyes closed , the girls move in perfect synchronisation — even though they are said to be untrained in the intricate pattern of the dance . |
| 18 | Many solicitors , in writing a letter for a client , will misrepresent the law , even though they are addressing themselves to a layman , and will lend themselves to various abuses and suppressions ( not involving a breach of law ) in order to obstruct a just claim . |
| 19 | It seems to be established , and rightly so , that the criterion is not geographical — privilege does not attach to letters sent by constituents to a member , even though they are posted to him in the post office in the Lobby of the House of Commons ( Rivlin v Bilainkin [ 1953 ] 1 QB 485 ) . |
| 20 | The ending of the book is not an anti-climax even though they are saved . |
| 21 | Geoffrey Chaucer could not hold a conversation with a modern Englishman , even though they are linked to each other by an unbroken chain of some twenty generations of Englishmen , each of whom could speak to his immediate neighbours in the chain as a son speaks to his father . |
| 22 | If physical beauty and internal beauty are not the same , even though they are linked , then instances may occur when one or the other is almost totally absent . |
| 23 | The craftsmen whom Willis describes are involved with their work even though they are alienated from the given structure of the enterprise . |
| 24 | As we have seen , acts of violence may be considered necessary in situations of moral dilemma even though they are known to be wrong . |
| 25 | Only eight per cent of children from low income families ( in the Registrar General 's social classes four and five ) go to university , even though they are guaranteed a free education through a full grant plus social security . |
| 26 | Only eight per cent of children from low income families ( in the Registrar General 's social classes four and five ) go to university , even though they are guaranteed a free education through a full grant plus social security . |
| 27 | They can still use , and have been using , cull grenades in the cause of science , even though they are banned for commercial purposes . |
| 28 | For example , on the last beat in bar 2 the notes comprise five adjacent semitones from C to F ( even though they are spread out ) . |
| 29 | Many of Russia 's ICBMs are accurate enough to destroy American Minuteman ICBMs even though they are housed in protective silos , says the Pentagon . |
| 30 | The ideas of the phrenologists contained much sound common sense even though they were built on the false premise that bumps on the skull are a key to personality . |