Example sentences of "and although [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Renovations started in November 1990 , and although work is nearing completion , the pitch is unlikely to be fit for play before the end of the season . |
| 2 | It has not proved straightforward to obtain the services of appropriate staff , and although work has now commenced in each of the areas mentioned , it is difficult to predict when development will be complete and thus give a firm date as to when information will be available to allow colleges to plan for the introduction of new courses in session 1989–90 . |
| 3 | For Mill it 's very important that citizens are educated for their role and although participation on a na national level has to be something that can be restricted only to the few , Mill nevertheless wants active participation of the citizens in other aspects . |
| 4 | He readily granted licences for enfeoffment to uses , and although Chancery officials made some effort to track down unlicensed or fraudulent uses , such cases ‘ form a very small minority of all those tenants in chief who had conveyed land to uses ’ . |
| 5 | However , owners are under no compulsion to sell and although land may be identified for development , it may in fact remain undeveloped for many years . |
| 6 | The village developed gradually , and although road communications were poor there was a stage coach going through the village from Hull to Patrington Haven . |
| 7 | Re-exporting of tropical and semi-tropical products had boomed in the later seventeenth century and although expansion was less rapid thereafter , it held firm through the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century . |
| 8 | Howard Primary School , landing at Cambridge University Observatory , found time for a ballet of the night-sky to a background of synthesizer and a resourceful battery of percussion ; and although improvisation and rhythm ( rap a firm favourite ) pushed melody to one side for the most part , Ixworth middle school beguiled the time outside Colman 's Mustard Shop in Norwich with a garland of song . |
| 9 | The depth sounder and Decca Navigator in the wheelhouse were innovations and although Radar was out of the question at that time we managed very well with the Decca Navigator , often running up the Thames in quite dense fog buoy hopping through Sea Reach . |
| 10 | And although Platinum has , like the spreadsheet solution that preceded it , some limitations , he sees it as a good basis for future developments . |
| 11 | Although Charles II had fathered eight illegitimate sons by his five mistresses , of which Nell Gwynne was his favourite ( the New King 's Road was built to give the King access to Nell Gwynne ) , Catherine had no children and although Parliament endeavoured to persuade him to exclude his brother from succession to the throne , Charles II refused . |
| 12 | From mid-day the general public were admitted to the site for the first time , and although publicity had been kept to a relatively low key , several hundred visitors attended . |
| 13 | And although absinthe was banned , cafés shut early and many bars closed down , secret drinking-clubs offered liquor and amusement through the night . |
| 14 | And although home ownership has proved a profitable investment during most of the decade , with house prices rising by an average of around 12 per cent , it looks far less so now . |
| 15 | For example , unlike the rat , the development of pre-primitive streak stage mouse embryos is extremely unpredictable in vitro and although development is much improved if embryos are explanted after the primitive streak has formed it seems to be a general finding that normal growth and development can not be sustained much beyond 24 or 36 h in culture . |
| 16 | Johnstone 's recollections are a sad but reassuringly honest appraisal of a career on the skids and although drink and football are part of the untamed humour of Scottish society , they are also a major part of the untold pain . |
| 17 | Alain had been brooding since the night before , and although Marguerite had certainly noticed she had kept quiet . |
| 18 | GEC supplied the equipment for assembly at BREL Crewe , and although software problems delayed entry into service until the early part of 1989 , the prototype batch of ten ( another twenty-one are on order ) were a regular sight on King 's Cross-Peterborough commuter and some Leeds service by the end of the year . |
| 19 | Natural , Software AG claims , is a complete replacement for third generation language environments , and although Software AG believes SQL restricts the performance of OLTP systems , its Adabas database supports an implementation of the industry-standard SQL inquiry language . |
| 20 | The demand for elegance carries with it the requirement to fit in with existing furniture and although talking points can be useful , a table surrounded by a set of such chairs could be a positive eyesore . |
| 21 | At this time of year , hundreds of people are struggling to get hunters fit and although roadwork is not that exciting , it will be free and your help will be much appreciated . |
| 22 | I duly sent a copy to Eliot ; and although lie showed interest , I think it possible that he never read it through , as the following letter shows . |
| 23 | The nuns claim that their eggs have never been associated with an outbreak of food poisoning , and although salmonella is present in the environment it is not necessarily in the eggs . |
| 24 | This must have been the only time John ever had his work discussed in detail by a choreographer of Balanchine 's gifts and experience , and although Buckle described him as ‘ looking somewhat quelled ’ his nature was such as to profit from it . |
| 25 | She liked Yeats well enough , and although poetry meant little to her , she could see that he was destined for great things . |
| 26 | The company 's accounts state that Nos. 17 and 21 were to be broken up in 1927 and although No. 17 had disappeared without trace , Walter Gratwicke saw two cars numbered 21 side by side in Penge depôt in 1932 ! ( i.e. Milnes Car No. 21 and the ex-Croydon car which replaced it ) . |
| 27 | Yet the Commons debate went far beyond the usual slanging match — and although Minister Robert Key tried hard to describe Government policy in the best possible light , serious concern and strong criticism was expressed that alone in the National Heritage budget , the English Tourist Board 's ( ETB ) funding is to be fiercely reduced . |
| 28 | The chronicler Hall emphasised the consternation produced by the government 's success in establishing a basis for swingeing taxation , and although wealth can seldom or never have been overstated for fiscal purposes , the Rutland muster book could perhaps be the exception that bears out his claim that ‘ some avaunced them selfes more than they were worth of pride , not remembryng [ realising/ suspecting ] what was coming ’ , naively succumbing to the blandishments of the commissioners , who ‘ did what they could to set the people to the vttermoste ’ . |
| 29 | And although attendance during the rainy season was poor , the company 's projection of 11m visitors for the first year has not proved far from the mark . |
| 30 | A few miles south from Brora , past the Duke of Sutherland 's monstrous French-château fantasy castle at Dunrobin , is the town of Golspie , whose name derives from the old gaelic word meaning the ‘ place of the strangers ’ and although evidence is sparse , it is thought that the strangers in question were Vikings . |