Example sentences of "though it [vb -s] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 These five species constitute what may be called the typical owl pattern , and even though it encompasses a fair degree of variability it is consistent enough for departures from it to be instantly recognizable .
2 The conceptual content required in this case to describe the institution , though it involves a great deal of cultural elaboration , does not display the same kind of break between the pre-cultural and the cultural as is found in the incest case ; and the biological pattern of explanation could recognizably run through such ideas as human beings finding certain institutions ‘ natural ’ , which does not require any appeal to a rational collective agency to understand the basic biological idea , as is damagingly the case with the incest example .
3 Though it involves a few minutes ' paperwork , a worthwhile exercise is to jot down your own personal list of pros and cons , under the headings : ‘ spending now ’ and ‘ spending later ’ .
4 Though it uses a modified self adjusting back , this is not obvious .
5 Chelsea College , which is under strong pressure to merge with one of the larger colleges , does not appear in the list , even though it has a strong electronics department .
6 The Blandford fly is the most famous British representative , which though it has a nasty bite , does n't harbour any nasty parasites .
7 One of the best known of all British sociological studies , Young and Willmott 's Family and Kinship in East London ( 1957 ) , could be said to be a community study , though it has a specific focus and is based mainly , though not entirely , on data collected through a social survey .
8 I do n't really know the answer though it seems a fair question .
9 Fielding , Amis once remarked , showed that fiction can uphold a moral seriousness ‘ without evangelical puffing and blowing ’ ; his Take a Girl Like You ( 1960 ) has been aptly called a modernised replay of Richardson 's Pamela ; and when asked by a journalist which of the great novelists of the past he felt the closest affinity with , he replied reverently : ‘ With Fielding , though it seems a gross impertinence … ’ .
10 The software installation routine , though it installs a basic system very easily , could do with being beefed up a little in order to make configuring the network simpler for the first-timer .
11 That was written twenty years and more before the trial and acquittal of D. H. Lawrence 's Lady Chatterley 's Lover in October–November 1960 — an event that made more headlines than practical difference , though it marks a convenient turning-point in British official attitudes to literary obscenity .
12 SERAFIN : ‘ From Greenwich to Westminster ’ — which I should think would involve somewhat similar considerations — ‘ even though it takes longer , even though I ca n't read or watch television to keep myself entertained at the same time , even though it demands a greater expenditure of concentration and nervous energy — and , one might possibly add , physical labour in pushing and pulling the various levers and pedals involved … ’
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