Example sentences of "though he may [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The individual who is determined to remain calm in the face of aggression , even though he may feel he is doing the right thing , might wonder whether others look down on him and be tempted to behave as others think he should . |
| 2 | Mystical experience never arrives out of the blue ; it is always influenced by the religious milieu of the mystic , even though he may want to transcend the beliefs and attitudes that he found there . |
| 3 | He had grown accustomed , even in the work of supposedly enlightened anthropologists , to terms such as ‘ savage ’ , ‘ lower races ’ , and ‘ inferior races ’ , so that when he speaks of ‘ inequality ’ , he may well be thinking of a vertical model , though he may mean simply ‘ difference ’ when he writes that |
| 4 | Even though he may pay lip service to the idea that there are probably many breaks not yet discovered , nevertheless almost every geologist seems to accept the above doctrine , albeit subconsciously . |
| 5 | In The Prelude we can easily detect a similar pattern imposed upon experience , though Wordsworth is describing a poetic rather than a Christian vocation ; and though he may appear to use religious vocabulary ( see again the discussion on pages 89–91 ) , he is expounding a secular philosophy . |
| 6 | But if he looks as though he may pounce on them , they shoot at him , and if they kill him , they cut him in pieces and roast him and regale themselves , repeating all the while , ‘ It is the Russians who are eating you , not us . ’ |
| 7 | This simple truth is rarely perceived or admitted : almost always the judge pretends to get his solution out of the words of the Act , though he may confess in so doing to be guided by its general policy . |
| 8 | If there are no bridesmaids he does not have to speak , though he may wish to do so . |
| 9 | It is possible for a man 's commitment to his fundamental principles to remain firm even though he may act in certain circumstances in a way contrary to those principles . |
| 10 | Though he may say things to them that have no exact parallels in Scripture , his word does not contradict Scripture , neither does it have the same normative quality . |
| 11 | To be accurate , ‘ private press ’ should be applied only to a press where the owner 's or operator 's chief objective is to print a fine book , without being at the mercy of a publisher 's instructions and a first necessity to show a profit , even though he may sell his wares through commercial channels . |
| 12 | The cynic may perhaps be forgiven for commenting that the freedom given by the Use Classes Order and the GDO is so hedged by restrictions , and frequently so difficult to comprehend ( though he may note with relief that painting is not subject to control , unless it is ‘ for purpose of advertisement , announcement or direction ’ ) that it would be safer to assume that any operation constitutes development and requires planning permission . |
| 13 | He is generally unmarried , even though he may have had a shady past which included associating with women . |
| 14 | Comparison of ‘ To Lucinda ’ with the first publication of ‘ The Rural Maid 's Reflexions ’ shows that Browne , for whatever reason , changed at least one title , though he may have been returning to the original . |
| 15 | Another and widely spread practice is for the head of a laboratory to add his name automatically to any paper published from it , though he may have no contribution at all to the work . |
| 16 | Donaldson would have had no option but to make arrangements for the delegation , even though he may have been well aware of what the reaction would be . |
| 17 | The atmosphere remained fraught , and though he may have secretly relished the animation it gave to things , he needed to settle into a quiet routine if he was going to produce good work . |
| 18 | Holy though he may have been , Pius X , abetted by the English-born Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val , waged a vigorous and not always clean campaign against the dangers of modernism . |
| 19 | God in Christ , through taking on a particular instance of humanity , shares with all human beings the universal , humanity , and it is that which is of significance , even though he may have different particularities from some other individuals . |
| 20 | Where a defendant is familiar with the trade in question he may be taken to have knowledge of the existence of a contract even though he can not identify the other contracting party and even though he may have no direct information about any particular contract at all . |
| 21 | Only the abbot and I knew , though he may have felt that he must tell Prior Robert . ’ |
| 22 | His parents have not been identified , though he may have been related to a family of Purneys in Buckinghamshire . |
| 23 | A child may come before a hearing on an offence referral and be made subject to a supervision requirement for a number of reasons , of which the offence may be only one ; the child may on review be kept subject to a supervision requirement , even though he may have committed no further offences , because of , say , inadequate parental care . |
| 24 | Lorentz at this point would be courteous , Hollander though he may have been . ) |
| 25 | More than twenty years ago , the archivist Emmison tried to convey to teachers what he felt to be the special qualities of an original document : The original document is in a sense more real than any text book can hope to be ; for the writer , though he may have been misguided , biased or mistaken , at least lived through the events of which he speaks ; and whatever his shortcomings , he was in certain respects better informed about the times and conditions in which he lived than is the interpreter writing two or three hundred years afterwards . |
| 26 | PS John Pemberton was a right-back in his days at Palace though he may have moved to central defence . |
| 27 | There are , however , a number of provisions contained in TA 1988 , Part XV ( ss660-689 ) which seek to tax the income arising from the trust property upon the settlor , even though he may have attempted to alienate that income for tax purposes . |
| 28 | Because it takes so long for blood alcohol levels to fall , it 's easy for someone who drinks ‘ modestly ’ at lunch time and after work to go over the limit , even though he may take only four units on each occasion . |
| 29 | Modern scientific man thinks that he is no more than a chance arrangement of dust and water , of molecules — though he may acknowledge that the atoms and molecules , indeed all life forms , are highly ordered and organized ! |
| 30 | ‘ William is my apprentice , ’ Hari said , ‘ and though he may look very young he 's a good cobbler and a great help to me . ’ |