Example sentences of "although [pron] has been a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There is some evidence that committee members feel themselves less fettered by party ties in committee than on the floor of the House although there has been a tendency for party loyalty to reassert itself if the report is debated .
2 Although there has been a settlement of some sort at North Shields since the Middle Ages , the modern town is a product of the addition of industrial capitalism to mercantile capitalism .
3 Although there has been a proliferation in inner-city innovations in the 1980s , there can be little doubt that enterprise zones , together with Urban Development Corporations ( see Chapter 6 ) , have been the most significant of initiatives .
4 Problems abound in measuring income distribution and although there has been a reversal in equality trends since the mid-1970s , middle-class identity in Japan is more closely related to earning middling incomes than attachment to class specific values .
5 In fact , he totally underestimated the difficulties he would have to face : in the 18 months since the APB was set up , the economic climate and spectacular corporate failures such as BCCI and Maxwell have left the public baying for auditors ' blood , and , although there has been a honeymoon period — somewhat extended recently by publication of the McFarlane Report — the pressure under which the new body has had to work has been intense .
6 self-sufficient in poultry meat , although there has been an increase in imports of whole frozen chickens , which have penetrated the market .
7 Thus , although there has been an extension of fraud as credit facilities have expanded , this has not affected the central principle on which the regulation of fraud is based — that at all costs ‘ free enterprise ’ should not be discouraged by fear of prosecution .
8 It was Mr Deans 's first trip to an offshore installation , although he has been a seaman for a number of years .
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