Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] although " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spokesman for Jet John Maples say although there 's no immediate threat to jobs he 's pleased that Michael Heseltine and John Patten have spoken up in Culham 's favour . |
| 2 | Soaring like a sharp wedge , its sandstone rocks have defied the storms of ages but have been split and shattered into a succession of strange pinnacles requiring the skill of rockclimbers to surmount although , by trial and error , walkers can make progress by avoiding the crest of the ridge in places of difficulty , using stony gullies for descent and re-ascent . |
| 3 | But they are the old-style notes without silver strips although legal tender could arouse suspicion . |
| 4 | The difficulty is that the assumptions on which it is based are to say the least shaky : the assumptions , namely , that only one vote suffices although more than one candidate is to be elected ; that preferential voting is reliable , even when used in ignorance of all the relevant information and inhibited by the arbitrary exclusion of candidates who might otherwise be successful ; that it is reasonable to grant to some votes the privilege of being transferred , and to lower-preference votes the possibility of exercising greater influence than is warranted by their very definition ; that it is reasonable also to give to all transferred votes the same weighting as to original votes ; and that election by quota is sensible even if the quotas are manifestly make-believe . |
| 5 | Debbie Dent from Oxfordshire 's Trading Standard 's Department says although the product 's been withdrawn from sale in most shops , some of the sets marked ‘ Salter 's Science Fun with Crystals ’ may have already been bought and put aside for Christmas . |
| 6 | Detective Inspector Gerry Wright says although she had heart disease she may well have lived for several years , if it had n't been for the sudden shock of finding two men in her house . |
| 7 | Benetton is also planning to enter the trainers market although no launch date has been set yet . |
| 8 | When she sat in the dunes brushing the sand from her legs , the voices persisted although now she was sheltered : Go home , go home . |
| 9 | Sheep are normally the most common animals represented although occasionally cattle predominate over sheep . |
| 10 | There were still many family units left although in the last two decades there has been a tendency for farm sizes to increase . |
| 11 | Education spokesman Mike Barnett said although the exclusion rate was half that of other counties , it was still a matter of serious concern . |
| 12 | they resumed this morning on 408 for 5 … the damage done although Gloucestershire took the last five wickets at a cost of just 113 runs … |
| 13 | Simon Coombs MP for Swindon says although it 's disappointing news , he 's confident other companies will want to get involved in the development . |
| 14 | I was warmly welcomed in all cases and an enthusiastic and positive attitude prevailed although mixed with understandable anxiety concerning the radical changes proposed . |
| 15 | As far emerging technologies go , Rothstein says although the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment may well become part of a common distributed infrastructure , he claims it is still on a very low level as far as developers are concerned . |
| 16 | The minor planning applications do not fall into the Associations remit although Ruth Wilson keeps an eye on all that is going on . |
| 17 | The minor planning applications do not fall into the Associations remit although Ruth Wilson keeps an eye on all that is going on . |
| 18 | However , two other university members voted against the rural areas scheme although one of whom , Professor Ernest Barker , later became chairman of the Board 's Rural Areas Committee . |
| 19 | Bulk modulus is not an easy quantity to measure although , for isotropic materials , it is of more fundamental importance than Young 's modulus to the material scientist . |
| 20 | IBM said although the VR tool kit is not yet an IBM product , it believes a related type of package could be priced competitively with similar products on the market . |
| 21 | While in social terms this objective may be desirable , opening up the investment aids to reach an even wider range of farms could seriously exacerbate the agriculture/nature conservation conflict in the LFAs as more pastures and hay meadows are converted to grass leys , roughland improved agriculturally and wetlands drained although the reduction in drainage grants and the abolition of grants for land cultivation in December 1984 makes such an extension to smaller farms rather academic . |
| 22 | The school 's head teacher , Diane Wilson says although they could have parked on the double yellow lines outside the ice rink , it would have been unfair to other vehicles as well as dangerous for the children . |
| 23 | The main disadvantage of marginal costing that overheads are not included into product costs although it apparent that if activities classified as overheads were not employed then it is unlikely a firm would be able to satisfactorily produce the products . |
| 24 | Rain rallied although she would have been happy to stay where she was , lying on the bed . |
| 25 | The hall and the gallery and the enormous stained glass windows which faced the door as you came in , and the three reception rooms were ours , and as I suffer from terrible claustrophobia , I thought it was a wonderful place to live although David , who I am sure does n't suffer from claustrophobia as badly as I do , being British and like most British people , would be content to live in smaller environments . |
| 26 | But in saying that I 'll go ahead , I 'll go ahead with what Robert said although it seems as if erm between us we picked up on a lot of things , there was some objections that Martin threw at you that I thought you handled particularly well . |
| 27 | Most local authorities do not recruit until the months immediately before the vacancy arises although some authorities are increasingly seeing the advantage of recruiting one to two years in advance . |
| 28 | Farm enterprises were predominantly livestock based although around Oslo and Drammen most of the ploughable land was used for cereals and horticultural crops . |
| 29 | I was very happy about the way things went although extremely apprehensive before the Conference took place since we had so many jigsaw pieces to slot in . |
| 30 | Organic manure might be animal or vegetable derived although both are difficult to obtain in quantity in a modern society . |