Example sentences of "although it [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The maintenance of armies on this scale and the continued uncertainty of medieval political life had other effects too ; although it escaped the large-scale violence which affected much of Northern England during the Wars of the Roses , Sussex had an ample share of earlier troubles .
2 The new church , although it incorporated the old church of San Satiro , was named for the Madonna , which explains why the new church is renown as Santa Maria presso San Satiro , the church of St Mary near St Satiro .
3 But although it had the standard minute membership and tatty newspaper hawked erratically round student unions , shopping precincts and Tube stations , Big Flame was different .
4 ‘ I 'll find it , ’ I yelled back at him , then slipped an old Simply Red tape into the cassette just to annoy him , although it had the added advantage that I could n't hear him any more .
5 Although it harboured the worst sort of poverty , inequality and exploitation during the 1930s and 1940s , not least because its bright lights attracted millions from the surrounding countryside , it seethed with exuberant life and economic activity .
6 Although it included the Byzantine penalties of blinding and mutilation for certain offences , it was far in advance of the legal practices of many medieval states , and it was the first comprehensive legal code amongst the South Slavs .
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