Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] though " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a far cry from our Lord 's proclamation of the good news in which salvation is primarily spiritual and moral , not political and social , and in which the act of deliverance itself is wholly unrelated to the reform of social and political institutions even though it should have an implication in that area . |
| 2 | Some families choose particular village locations because multiple-car ownership eases their problems of accessibility ; others make the choice or are constrained to a particular area for economic reasons even though the ownership of just one car may cause difficulties for some members of the family ; yet other households may be constrained even to particular houses in particular locations . |
| 3 | Then , as soon as they were given access to each other , and also to the small molecules needed as raw materials , in water , both got back to their old tricks even though they were no longer in a living cell but in a test tube . |
| 4 | In 1920 , Salisbury had its first double-deck buses even though they were secondhand . |
| 5 | I always seem to get the wrong results even though I 'm working as hard as possible . |
| 6 | The sum is a huge award by French standards even though Fergie and Bryan had tried to win £2.5million under strict privacy laws . |
| 7 | You know I said they 're all fantastically healthy and yet there are n't any old folks even though we thought they travelled around together in a group ? |
| 8 | The US authorities instigated 1,551 cases , but of these only 45 per cent were prosecuted as criminal ; the majority were dealt with as civil matters even though little difference could be found in the types of anti-trust behaviour these corporations committed . |
| 9 | Unlike housing and education , health policies were remarkable for their continuity in the 1980s and the NHS finished the decade battered round the edges but largely intact : still the overwhelming supplier of health care in spite of the growth in the independent sector ; still tax-funded and for the most part free at the point of use ; still growing in real terms even though that did not keep pace with demand in the view of critics . |
| 10 | But the gradualist argument could be applied just as tellingly : chimp-like skull , body size and body build , feet retaining chimp-like features even though the pelvis and lower limbs indicate bipedalism . |
| 11 | Their movements must , therefore , have literal implications even though they use the flowing romantic style originated by Taglioni and Perrot in La Sylphide and Giselle . |
| 12 | Well , oh yes , I 'm sure I 'm not saying that 's the only thing that controls people 's food intake I mean clearly there are things cultural some cultures , the Japanese seem to love eating raw fish , I mean how they can bring themselves to do it I do now know , I mean the raw is I do n't think I 'd want to eat again , but er erm not always if they were cooked either , but erm the , the er and certainly if you look at the Australian Aborigines even though we take the Australian Aborigines as our kind of primeval people , they have astonishing food taboos , I mean their attitudes to food are very very culturally er effective to , to a quite extraordinary extent , some so that somebody somebody discovered that eating a tabooed food by accident , they 'll get very ill , a kind of psychosomatic illness . |
| 13 | This has the effect that high concentrations of carbonic acid can be attained in cold regions even though the rate of production of carbon dioxide by organic activity in such environments is relatively low . |
| 14 | Spanish workers voted heavily Socialist in the European parliamentary elections even though Mr Gonzalez 's tight economic policies has led to a 17.3 per cent jobless rate and running battles with the trade unions . |
| 15 | Given that annuity markets are imperfect , people may leave substantial estates even though they have no altruistic feelings towards their heirs . |
| 16 | Reports from Zimbabwe suggest that poachers are killing black rhinos even though they have been dehorned by the authorities to make them unattractive to hunters . |
| 17 | To such men it was unthinkable to meet such a fellow face to face and across a table on equal terms even though it might no longer be diplomatic for an official of the Federation to admit this in public . |
| 18 | Asian ships did not go round the Cape of Good Hope to trade with Europe , and East Indiamen , as the Company 's ships were called , were so heavily armed and were so much safer from the risk of piracy that merchants found them useful carriers even though they did not sail as fast as local ships until the Company had its ships built of teak some decades later . |
| 19 | That presumably would remain the English ‘ region 's ’ position on environmental grounds even though the French ‘ region ’ on the other side of the Channel might favour the tunnel in the interests of an integrated railway system . |
| 20 | The syllabus is still conceived of as a collection of atomistic linguistic elements even though they are now functionally rather than formally defined . |
| 21 | Reducing the size and increasing the distance apart of the targets did not remove these lateralised effects even though greater accuracy was required in hitting the targets . |
| 22 | Cerebral areas thought to be devoted to motor aspects of speech planning and execution ( for example supplementary motor area ( SMA ) , cerebellum and possibly primary sensorimotor areas of mouth and larynx ( BA 4 , 3 , 2 , 1 ) and BA 6 ) were activated by our experimental tasks even though there was no overt speech . |
| 23 | Member states may , however , demand standards which are more stringent than the ‘ essential ’ standards , but only for their own domestically produced products or services ; they can not prevent the importation of products that comply with Community essential standards even though they may fail to comply with the more stringent domestic standards . |
| 24 | The next stage occurs when everyone concerned with the case assumes that there are connections between various incidents even though the evidence may still be shaky . |
| 25 | Not uncommonly , family members will pour scorn on the philosophy of Alcoholics Anonymous and related Fellowships even though ( and perhaps even because ) the programme works , whereas the family member 's methods of treatment — time and time again — have failed to help the primary sufferer . |
| 26 | ‘ I think he will trouble the Indian batsmen even though they are good players of spin bowling . ’ |
| 27 | Wales were convincing winners even though they trailed 15–6 with half an hour to go . |
| 28 | The company argued that it was given a stay of execution by other bankers even though it had defaulted on loans connected with its American Heileman brewing operations . |
| 29 | To be able to synchronise their emergence the cicadas must have an inbuilt timer which can count the passing years even though the animals are buried under the soil . |
| 30 | ( c ) Day care and after-school activities Local authorities may provide day care for under-fives and activities for school-age children even though they are not in need . |