Example sentences of "although [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Network Southeast carries passengers three hundred and ninety million passengers a year , more than half the total for the whole of B R. So although off peak increases have been pegged at four percent , today 's announcement affects huge numbers of commuters .
2 This is a useful concept although as Dunn et al .
3 It is not much directly concerned with land improvements although as part of a complex system of supports , staff of the Volcans d'Auvergne Regional Park understood that support payments ( of 1,000FF/year for each cow to an unknown maximum ) were made to farmers in the Massif Central through FIDAR and SOMIVAL ( a regional development company ) .
4 The M forty not running too badly at the moment , although between junction two and junction seven there are a fair few roadworks which could hold you up throughout your journey .
5 Although for Scotland the main deficiency was only in the lack of HMIs with primary school experience , the Select Committee was concerned about the overall balance in England and Wales .
6 Although for simplicity , these network ‘ knots ’ are regarded as a set of fixed obstacles round which the isolated chain under consideration must wriggle during translation , in practice the network ‘ knots ’ would also be in motion .
7 The only popular spectator sport , as opposed to game , is professional boxing although for reasons I shall come to later , the only sportsmen involved are those backing the contenders and not the participants themselves .
8 Although for reasons of space only parts of the conversations have been transcribed and reproduced here , for several of the conversations the extracts are just long enough to give a flavour of the content and tone of the conversation in general .
9 Although for Aristotle physics meant the study of motion and change in nature , the main emphasis was placed by him on the states between which change takes place rather than on the actual course of the motion itself .
10 Mean latent periods for malignant tumour detection after radiation exposure are estimated at about 25 years , although for leukaemia it is between 8 and 14 years .
11 With any luck they would not run across her during the day , although for press purposes both Major and Hurd would have to say how pleased they were to hear of her arrival .
12 Whilst geological studies were employed during the last War , in surveys of landing beaches , roadway planning , water supply , bridges etc. , the number of geologists involved was very small , and the situation today is unlikely to be greatly different , although for security reasons the numbers are not published .
13 Whilst geological studies were employed during the last War , in surveys of landing beaches , roadway planning , water supply , bridges etc. , the number of geologists involved was very small , and the situation today is unlikely to be greatly different , although for security reasons the numbers are not published .
14 Offenders who are mentally disordered suffer the stigma of being labelled as both ‘ mad ’ and ‘ bad ’ , although for centuries it has been recognized that some people have diminished responsibility for their actions as a result of mental abnormality and that punishment and retribution , usually demanded by society of someone who has committed a crime , should be dispensed with in favour of providing humane care and treatment .
15 Although for safety the main unit must be situated indoors , the hosepipe and solenoid valve will probably be outside but so sited that catastrophic failure of the circuit or a sticking solenoid valve would not cause problems with flooding .
16 Coun Williams refuses to have any contact with the South Africans although for months President de Klerk has been sitting down with Nelson Mandela and immense steps are in train towards early power sharing .
17 Life in Russia for Western defectors is a severe cultural shock , although for George Blake it was better than 30 years in a British prison .
18 There is a limit of £750,000 on the amount an eligible company can raise under the BES in any tax year , although for ship operating or chartering companies or assured tenancies the limit is £5m .
19 Polgar resolved to do the same , although for years it resulted in severe poverty .
20 However , in older people , such improvement is not possible although after cessation further deterioration will run parallel to that of nonsmokers .
21 Although after Nero 's reign the clause of damnatio had no effect , it continued to be used in practice , as this example and others in the Digest show ; and as the documentary evidence confirms .
22 Although after Jutland Britain still had more ships than Germany , as the Kaiser remarked , ‘ The spell of Trafalgar has been broken . ’
23 Ezra would have liked to see more of Max Beerbohm , whom he at least partially admired for his wit , although of course he could not have tolerated his philosophy of life .
24 In doing so I am rather like the doctor by the patient 's bedside , who knows ; although of course he does not tell the patient — that the outcome of the disease will depend upon something in the constitution of that patient which he can not control nor further influence and which he can not even ascertain , except by the event .
25 Ah ha , no ; it was n't quite as simple as all that , do n't you know , although of course it was an incentive day , and the Irish loved incentives .
26 Sex in Judaism is not only for procreation , although of course that is very important .
27 Although of course I would rather have a Pissarro .
28 Within the marine environment itself some palaeontologists believe that the overall richness of the marine fauna was established early on , say by the Silurian period , and that there has not been a great increase in the total number of species living in the sea at any one time since then , although of course the kinds of organisms inhabiting the sea have changed many times .
29 In her column , La Rotonde is the café that Beatrice always mentions , although of course Modi and the other artists often visited the Café du Dôme opposite , favoured by Germans and Americans , Au Closerie des Lilas or Le Petit Napolitain .
30 These causes of failure are attributed to ‘ problems at the top ’ , although of course these must be linked to problems further down , particularly of lack of participation of local people , inappropriate conservation measures , local enforcement and so on .
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