Example sentences of "though it [vb -s] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some companies , such as retail group Kingfisher , refuse to join , even though it meets the 0.5 per cent target . |
| 2 | The first building so adorned which we know of is the Siphnian treasury , which is Ionic in character though it lacks the typical capitals , since instead of columns in the porch it had two Caryatids : supports in the form of girls , here canonical korai of immense elaboration . |
| 3 | And for a really considered exposition of it we can turn to Charles Temple 's Native Races and their Rulers ( 1918 ) , a remarkable work which , though it bears the unmistakable stamp of a mind operating obsessively in isolation , pursuing ideas by their internal logic rather than by the rules of external evidence , can yet be assumed to possess a representative character . |
| 4 | He said that the federation does not predict that any sector of engineering will increase employment next year , though it forecasts the civil aerospace industry will be least badly affected because of a backlog of orders and its high level of exports . |
| 5 | The Pentium , explained Ian Pearson , director of Inmos 's Transputer Business Unit , is 30% bigger though it has the same number of transistors . |
| 6 | The Pentium , explained Ian Pearson , director of Inmos 's Transputer Business Unit , is 30% bigger though it has the same number of transistors . |
| 7 | The use of on approval copies and of information from library suppliers is increasingly common , though it carries the major disadvantage of leaving the selection process to commercial organizations whose main aim is to make money ( see pp.118–21 ) . |