Example sentences of "[coord] even though [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Reynolds held off the challenge of John McPherson to put Drumaness ahead seven minutes from half time and even though a Dunmurry effort was cleared off the line it was Drumaness who squandered the scoring chances in the first half . |
| 2 | And even though a win would turn the investment into millions , naturally I do n't want to commit that amount of finance entirely by myself . ’ |
| 3 | There was no proper funeral , as there had been no proper wedding ceremony ; they simply hauled the waterlogged body onto a bonfire of driftwood , and even though the sea wind at dawn had made the fire hot enough to break the stones of the beach , it was six hours before the body was gone , and then they had to wait a whole day before they could rake the ashes for his bones and send them to her . |
| 4 | It is much easier to talk about something or explain if you have it in front of you and even though the listener can not actually see it you will be able to paint a mental picture for him . |
| 5 | And even though the courtesy coaches which run three times a week to Ierapetra and Sitia got booked days in advance , local buses were reliable and cheap . |
| 6 | And even though the story is about a lecturer at ‘ the University of Rummidge ’ , a majority of all viewers mentioned spontaneously that the programme was filmed at Birmingham . |
| 7 | As she walked into the room she saw Neil 's eyes hard on her , registering her beautiful gown , her carefully dressed hair , and even though the gown was plain she looked like a queen of society in it , she knew , and she wished that she were wearing McAllister 's shabby bottle-green shirtwaister again . |
| 8 | By the time of the French Revolution there were in any case only three monks left in Saint-Savin and even though the church was spared the vindictive demolition which removed the adjacent monastery buildings , by 1840 it was more than ready to be rescued by the growing movement for the Conservation of ancient monuments . |
| 9 | … But there were times , when they were alone in the house together — and even though the Rabbi might be in his own room teasing out a bissle Talmud — his attention would suddenly stray from the holy words and he would become uncomfortably aware of some dybbuk , some spirit of unhappiness , brooding in the kitchen . |
| 10 | Surely , she mused , it had n't been raining long enough for the water levels to rise that far , and even though the middle of the week had proved consistently wet she felt confident she would arrive at the cottage long before the possibility became a reality . |
| 11 | And yet , because of a shortage of telephone lines in the old east , and even though the government has a legal monopoly , it will allow the networks to go on operating for at least another year . |
| 12 | Now in the eyes of the law , they have committed a crime , but if you put that situation before a jury , and even though the judge may instruct the jury , a crime has been committed , you must find them guilty , the jury 's inclination will probably be to say , natural justice , you , that you you done what was required of you , that you do n't deserve to be either convicted or sent to prison for it . |
| 13 | It accepted that someone could be guilty even though unaware of the falsity of the description and even though the description was applied to the goods by another person . |
| 14 | Cooling water pumps were incapacitated , and even though the twin reactors were shut down , it took many hours for the operators to successfully control the residual heat in their cores . |
| 15 | Boswell conducted his invasiveness while Johnson was still alive , and even though the result seems not overtly lurid , I doubt whether many areas of Johnson remained uncombed . |
| 16 | This is not an unreasonable provision , and even though the accountant may be an appointee of the landlord , one would expect him to act fairly . |
| 17 | It was a measure of Willi 's popularity that , even though his pre-production party was known about by nearly everyone who was anyone in Hochhauser , and even though the guest list was extremely small , no-one ever felt slighted because they had n't been invited . |
| 18 | However , the summer days are long at high latitudes , and even though the radiation is somewhat weak ( because the sun is low in the sky ) , life can flourish . |
| 19 | We 'd had these super three weeks in Crete — marvellous weather , nice hotel , swimming , really got on — and even though the flight was delayed we were still in a terrific mood when we got to Gatwick . |
| 20 | In any event the ‘ Far East ’ solution depended , with rather specious simplicity , on the ability to separate communist sheep from nationalist goats and even though the distinction was recognized as the sine qua non of a solution , it assumed that those who would not support genuine independence , once it was granted by the French , would identify themselves as communists : and would thereby distinguish themselves from the rest of the ‘ nationalist elements ’ who comprised the major part of the resistance forces . |
| 21 | But even though the air sinuses may be almost full of these worms , and they may also be present in the cavity of the middle ear , they have not been found in the inner ear . |
| 22 | But even though the category is entirely hypothetical , it is nevertheless part of the ‘ table of literature 's possibilities ’ which it is the business of poetics to construct . |
| 23 | But even though the rehearsal was , if not exactly bad , then most certainly inconclusive , nothing could dull the sense of wild excitement that gripped the entire company . |
| 24 | But even though the river 's dry a nearby training stables is now applying for permission to drill a bore hole and pump up to £10m gallons out of the ground to water horse gallops like this . |
| 25 | But even though the famine is beginning to ease , the recent death of a worker from another charity has highlighted the danger for Oxfam volunteers . |
| 26 | But even though the fridge helped him acclimatise to the cold , the temperature of minus twenty degrees celcius was still a little on the warm-side ! |
| 27 | If a section was held responsible for an offence ( as it was if someone outside the section was offended ) the victims would hold the section responsible ; but even though the section shaikh made the peace , he had no power to collect from the lineages in his section : he had to get the agreement of the lineage shaikhs , and they then collected from their members . |