Example sentences of "although [pron] [was/were] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became widely accepted that the attackers were predominantly black , although there was little evidence for this belief . |
| 2 | Here , it seemed , some labour had been applied to physical comforts , although there was little evidence of efficient housekeeping . |
| 3 | Although there was little evidence from the road , the two attacks damaged an outhouse and a garage housing the shell of a 1919 vintage car . |
| 4 | Although there was little originality in Paley 's argument and little new in his approach to natural history , his emphasis on the usefulness of organic structures struck a renewed chord in the minds of a social elite whose wealth was increasingly based on trade and commerce . |
| 5 | But although there was little doubt that many of the latter ideas were attractive in terms of pollution , their practicality was a matter for some debate . |
| 6 | Trading , never heavy , was at least well up to the post-crash average although there was little sign of institutional support . |
| 7 | Spread arbitrage profits were found , although there was little benefit to be gained by unwinding early , and hence risky spread arbitrage was unattractive . |
| 8 | Throughout , the ideal of comprehensive planning was thoroughly endorsed , although there was little acknowledgement of the economic issues for the redevelopment process . |
| 9 | Although there was little trace of the blood mysticism or metaphysical argument which so characterized Houston Stewart Chamberlain 's and volkish ideas in general in Germany , some elements derived from romanticism . |
| 10 | Although there was little room to doubt that the government of the United States , with the assistance of the British and German governments , was engaged in the biggest cover-up of modern times , there was no possible way Shaughnessy could prove it to a judge and jury unless the US government opened its files — and thereby virtually incriminated itself . |
| 11 | Franchises were re-allocated by competition in 1964 , 1967 and 1981 , and although there was each time a public invitation and a grand interview , the procedure involved a good deal of preliminary contact and discussion , not least about such important but apparently secondary factors as studio locations and offices . |
| 12 | Although there was another hour before the sun went down , we suddenly heard the sound of the ship 's gun . |
| 13 | ‘ Imports have continued to fall although there was some increase in store heifers , ’ states LMC chief executive Brendan McGahan . |
| 14 | Thus when there was demand for training youth in drama the holder of the purse , the government , turned for advice not to educationalists , not to speech and drama experts ( although there was some overlap here ) , but to a small group of charismatic figures who for decades had been promoting community drama of one sort or another , promoting it by giving advice , by running courses , by setting up drama libraries of play-texts , by making links with professional theatre , by popularising competitive festivals . |
| 15 | Although there was some overlap — Polish Poles , Danzig Poles , Polish Jews , German Jews , Polish , German and Danzig citizens — the vast bulk of the population was German . |
| 16 | Overall supervision of any banking system is essential to protect the interests of depositors , and although there was some degree of depositor protection in the 1960s it was not until the secondary banking crisis of the 1970s that formal supervisory structures were developed and embodied in the Banking Acts of 1979 and 1987 . |
| 17 | Although there was some variation , most people managed to answer about twelve of those questions correctly . |
| 18 | Although there was some criticism of the CNAA as being overpopulated with university representatives , for most people associated with the CNAA there was considerable gratitude for the role played by many university people in establishing and supporting the CNAA and in helping and defending the polytechnics . |
| 19 | Although there was some division of Conservative opinion , it appeared that a majority both of the Cabinet and of the backbenchers favoured either the acceptance of the bill or a Government measure doing roughly the same job in its place . |
| 20 | The Occasional Conformity and Schism Acts , it is true , were repealed in 1719 ( although there was some division in the party over this ) , but the sacramental test for office-holders remained , and the new Whig leadership developed a strong alliance with the Church establishment , which they ensured would be dominated by Whig clergy . |
| 21 | When agricultural improvers visited Sussex in the war years they had little favourable to say about the situation in general and the Weald came in for wholesale condemnation , although there was some disagreement about the details . |
| 22 | Although there was some doubt as the validity of automatic crystallisation provisions , the matter seems to be settled beyond dispute by the judgment of Hoffman J. in Re Brightlife Ltd . |
| 23 | Hale declared that proof of the emission of seed was unnecessary and , in the nineteenth century , although there was some doubt about this , East expressed himself to be firmly against such a requirement . |
| 24 | Although there was some confusion between their maps and descriptions of the peak , Knox-Johnston , Bonington and Greenland expert Jim Lowther made a first attempt on the peak on 11–12 August . |
| 25 | These were the main items of agricultural produce , although there were many variations in the quantity of each grown , presumably resulting from local soil conditions . |
| 26 | And although there were many dreams and faces I remained all the time in my bed . |
| 27 | Although there were many Moor villages where rice cultivation was the principal economic activity , Moors were often pictured as traders and shopkeepers , and they had a strong presence in towns . |
| 28 | Nobody intervened , although there were many people walking in the street , and when the two men had finished what they had obviously planned to do , they left as unhurriedly as they had come . |
| 29 | In 1972 I wrote a paper with Brandon Carter and an American colleague , Jim Bardeen , in which we pointed out that although there were many similarities between entropy and the area of the event horizon , there was this apparently fatal difficulty . |
| 30 | Although there were more colonialism in , in America than than we were in well are now anyway but er in , in a way that was the sort of impression . |