Example sentences of "[coord] though it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They point out that the group has a banking facility limit of £190m , and though it does have £10m more of properties to be sold it does not take much to push the Lowndes to this limit . |
| 3 | The house is built on an ‘ L ’ shape , and though it evolved gradually over the fifteenth , sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , the whole gives a uniquely harmonious appearance , which must stem from the use all those years ago of essentially local materials which can not but blend . |
| 4 | He was also partly , though not wholly , responsible for the ‘ non-intervention ’ policy which Britain and France pursued with regard to the Spanish Civil War , even though it was being blatantly ignored by Germany , Italy and Russia , and though it denied a legitimate Republican government the right of access to the world market for arms with which to defend itself . |
| 5 | And though it 's one of the most abundant elements on earth , not much hydrogen is chemically free . |
| 6 | But though they are not physical in their nature , and though it is difficult or impossible to conceive that they are physical in their origin , they are , for Darwin and his followers , factors in the evolutionary process in its physical or organic aspect . |
| 7 | But though obedience may be justly required , servility is not to be exacted ; and though it may be lawful to exert authority , it must be remembered , that to govern and to tyrannize are very different , and that oppression will naturally provoke rebellion |
| 8 | Walthwaite is the best example left and though it has been built in , the woodwork is still there . |
| 9 | The Rottweiler was recognized as a police dog , and though it came fourth behind three other breeds , it was a start , a start to a new career and one the breed took to with relish . |
| 10 | Iran has consistently produced more than its quota , securing exports by discounting below the OPEC release price and though it has benefited in terms of revenues in the short term , has certainly been partly instrumental in weakening the cartel . |
| 11 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll be in touch , ’ he said vaguely and though it was a long time before she would admit it to herself Sally knew it was all over . |
| 13 | The association of water conservation measures with improved administrative control was apparent from the earliest days of Masai administration , and though it became fashionable in later years to talk about ‘ anchoring ’ the Masai for development purposes , administrative convenience was always a powerful interest : ‘ the Masai have , in my view , two outstanding needs ’ , wrote the Provincial Commissioner of the Northern Province of Tanganyika in 1950 — ‘ water and discipline ’ . |
| 14 | He had found his kingdom , and though it filled him with Adamistic yearning , he was somehow powerless to enter and possess it , Why was this ? |
| 15 | At least her horrible outfit fitted her , and though it was far from being a party dress , let alone the dress of her dreams , it was reasonable , unlike Eve 's . |
| 16 | The next race was at Long Beach in California , billed as the US Grand Prix West , and though it ran through some streets , its relationship to Monaco , much hyped in the local press , was pretty tenuous . |
| 17 | This was their sixth successive League victory , and though it was only the first time they have scored three goals in a game this season , everyone at Highbury knows it could have been seven . |
| 18 | Feminists studying language have in general been more interested in furthering the study of sex difference than in criticising it , and though it is acceptable to sneer at long-dead commentators like Jespersen , whose work we will shortly come to , a thorough critique of modem sociolinguistics has been very slow to emerge . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't expect he liked it , darling , but you are on holiday , and though it was very naughty of that boy to risk ringing you from a ward , you can scarcely be held responsible . ’ |
| 20 | It looks very like a small gorilla and though it appears to be tailless , like an ape , it is in fact a monkey , closely related to the macaques . |
| 21 | That 's where the fuel tanks are located and though it seemed likely that the partial tearing away of the wing had also ruptured the fuel lines and spilled the fuel , there was no way of being sure and no one , again as far as I know , has ever come up against the problem of what happens when an oxyacetylene jet meets a fuel tank under water . |
| 22 | This encyclical was , of course , theological rather than practical in its purpose , and though it undoubtedly helped to quicken the pace of liturgical reform in the Church , the driving force of change lay elsewhere — most particularly perhaps in Germany . |
| 23 | The Canadian government intervened with measures to help the fishermen and other measures to help the fish ; and though it acted with the best of intentions , it had the worst of results . |
| 24 | it was initially the brainchild of Patricia Rawlings MEP , spokesperson on the European parliament 's Cultural Committee , and though it includes both established figures from the UK and Europe , focuses on the emerging talents of young British artists showing the innumerable ways of interpreting old ideas . |
| 25 | Such a project was tried in Wales and though it did identify cases , logistical difficulties in community health care made the rate of detection unacceptably low . |
| 26 | Time is the key point here , and though it would not exclude interested general practitioners from offering such a service , the present structure of British general practice ( with comprehensive medical responsibilities for about 1900 people ) militates against this . |
| 27 | It is steady because , though it moves , it is never wholly in motion ; and though it is tranquil , it is never wholly at rest . |
| 28 | Nagel 's profound point is that even where the agent is at the mercy of fate , and though it seems irrational upon reflection , our ordinary moral attitudes would be unrecognizable without attributing to the agent responsibility and culpability in a wide range of cases of moral luck . |
| 29 | The possession of South Korea is not essential for Allied strategic plans , and though it would obviously be desirable to deny it to the enemy , it would not be of sufficient importance to make it the cause of World War III . |
| 30 | However widespread such an attitude may have been in popular piety ( and perhaps it has been widespread ) , and though it may be thinkable to a Latin American theologian today , it is hardly orthodox . |