Example sentences of "although [prep] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conduct of persons who daub walls with racist graffiti is also nominally caught , although for practical reasons it may be simpler for the police to arrest and a prosecution brought for criminal damage , which carries a higher penalty if the damage done is sufficiently great , always supposing that the culprit can be apprehended . |
| 2 | We have not forgotten this offer , although for various reasons we have not been able to develop an idea until now . |
| 3 | For men , the range is usually between 9200 kJ and 12 100 Kj per day although for manual workers it can be more . |
| 4 | Released from the Vickers factory at Brooklands on September 25 , 1953 , Varsity T.1 WL679 spent most of its life at Farnborough , although for several years it was based at Pershore . |
| 5 | The actor is no different , although for some reason it is often thought that you are somehow ready to act , magically , the moment you enter a stage door . |
| 6 | Gradually they learn to discriminate , although for some time they can not determine what is influencing the mother 's movements towards or away from them . |
| 7 | Depending on the time of year , the Chelt at this point is often no more than a trickle , although after heavy rain it can rapidly become a muddy torrent , rushing through the fields ( and now beneath the M5 motorway ) , via Butlers Court , to the next mill at Boddington . |
| 8 | Denmark had in Cnut 's day only recently been converted to Christianity , and these authors are unlikely to have possessed much in the way of early documentary material , although like English historians they fairly clearly knew oral traditions which need not always have been groundless . |
| 9 | SIR — Although like most MPs I accept the principle that a majority of one is enough , I find it difficult to explain to my Southend Conservative supporters who have phoned me why your paper takes the view that there was a 4.43 per cent swing from Conservative to Labour in our constituency . |
| 10 | Scion of an ancient family of Scottish gentry , the Stirlings of Keir , he was the founder of what was to become the Special Air Service Regiment as we know it today , although with typical modesty he always insisted on sharing the credit with others . |
| 11 | Professor Stewart and his colleagues at the University of Birmingham identified a number of difficulties with these proposed changes , although with academic care they added the proviso : ‘ to identify problems is not to draw a conclusion ’ ( Stewart et al . |
| 12 | Recognition , however , does not necessarily require such processing ( although under certain circumstances it may be desirable ) . |
| 13 | No competition of any binding sites within the PPT promoter was seen by the 71/72 oligonucleotide although under similar conditions we could show that an AP1 oligonucleotide specifically competed a previously proposed AP1 binding site ( 7 ) . |
| 14 | This practice ended when it was declared unlawful by judicial review in 1985 ( R v Hallstrom ex parte W ) , although under Scots law it continues with monitoring by the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland . |
| 15 | Even for the three vertebrate cases , the ways in which the wing is constructed are quite different , although in each case they are modifications of the same fundamental structure , the pentadactyl limb . |
| 16 | At the other end of the scale , although in many cases it is open to private individuals to prosecute for breach of the criminal law , it is generally thought , for various reasons , that usually it is best for public prosecutors to take such action . |
| 17 | However , this is not a time for complacency because , although in many respects you are in control of your own destiny , there are certain obstacles to be surmounted before you have a completely free hand . |
| 18 | It is a Yorkshire dale in a classic sense with sweeping contours and a fierce beauty on the grand scale , although in recent years it has been placed in County Durham ( not that locals pay any attention to such cultural vandalism ) . |
| 19 | Its base unit is the kilogram although in chemical calculations it is often more convenient to use grams . |
| 20 | Little explicit literary evidence confirms this view of the Council ; there is for instance nothing in the pamphlet we call the Old Oligarch , written in c.425 , although in other contexts it does comment on the influence at Athens enjoyed by the wealthy and well-born . |
| 21 | Choice of the insurer is yours and an existing policy can be considered , although in such cases it may require depositing with the bank as security . |
| 22 | And yet , although he was a scientific naturalist and although in frequent essays he reminds us of the insignificance and unimportance of man in the whole scheme of things , it 's plain that , from the beginning , and as I hope I shall be able to show you , right down to the end , he found something emotionally hard to bear , I was going to say , in fact , intolerable , in this situation . |
| 23 | He had carried the day , of course , for although in fourteen years he had made himself supreme King in Alba , he was born to the north , and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew . |
| 24 | Re-writing the partnership agreement will not be a practicable exercise in larger firms , although in certain circumstances it may become necessary , eg if in the course of negotiations with a new partner some hitherto unsuspected inadequacy is revealed . |
| 25 | Although in most senses he enjoyed being there , to the denuded hills and the blackened crofts of neglected Dalriada , it also gave him cause for concern . |
| 26 | Hibernation deaths are probably common , although in most cases they probably result in isolated carcases well apart from each other . |
| 27 | There may sometimes be problems in deciding which member of a pair is the endonym and which the exonym , although in most cases we can trust our intuitions . |
| 28 | This is the main highway from Istanbul , which lies about 100 miles to the east , to the Greek border , some 100 miles to the west , and although in most parts it has a good tarmac surface it is in the main single carriageway . |
| 29 | Outdoor pursuits , especially walks , were promoted at all times , reading by oneself only when it was raining , and television not at all ( although in old age she herself became a tireless watcher of ‘ the News ’ ) . |
| 30 | By then La Rotonde , which had opened in 1911 , had become the place for artists to meet , and every morning Nina met Modi selling his drawings for five francs ( although in bad times he reduced the price to three francs ) . |