Sentence examples for licences though from inspiring English sources

In Britain only 13% of workers need licences (though that has doubled in 12 years).Some occupations clearly need to be licensed.

In May, Massachusetts is due to start granting same-sex marriage licences, though conservatives are trying to stop this through a state constitutional amendment and the courts.

With horse-drawn buggies, scooters and their own feet as their most common means of transport, the Amish have no need of drivers' licences, though many have special state ID cards bearing the inscription "Valid without Photo", reflecting their church's prohibition against photographs and other graven images.

But there will be no apprenticeship for road haulage: the government says people should pay to get their own licences, though courses cost £3,000, plus a £230 fee for a stiff test which applicants often require several attempts to pass.

As part of the deal, UBC Media, the content and software supplier to the radio industry, is also effectively injecting cash into the forthcoming Audioboo Pro version of the startup's iPhone app by buying 8 licences, though how much those cost hasn't been released.

So far, Hutchison has spent £4.4 billion on a British licence, though it got almost £2 billion back from two other companies that invested in the venture NTT DoCoMo, a Japanese mobile-phone company and KPN Mobile, a Dutch one.

Dior Couture, for example, still has eyeglasses, jewellery, lingerie and hosiery made under licence, though most of its other 300 or so licences have been taken back.Betsey Johnson, whose sexy, fun dresses have inspired a cult following among the baby-boomer generation that loves the Rolling Stones, is negotiating her first licences this year, for shoes, hosiery, lingerie and jeans.

For the most part the cooking is bright and fresh, and compared to the silly prices charged in so many restaurants, very cheap, the low cost aided by the lack of an alcohol licence, though you can bring your own and they will be so accommodating as to offer a bottle opener or corkscrew.

He was given special dispensation by the Premier League to take up the position at Rovers despite not holding a Uefa Pro Licence, though the recent downturn in form had figures within the Ewood Park hierarchy querying whether he boasted the necessary experience to haul the side out of trouble.

(This is problematic for Indigenous communities critics say, they argue Indigenous people are less likely to carry government issued ID such as drivers licences etc though Queensland has introduced identification for voters in past few months).

They have said they would spend the windfall gain from selling 4G licences even though Gordon Brown used the sale of 3G licences to pay down the debt, and even though Labour has said that any windfall from selling bank shares should be used in the same way.