Example sentences of "although [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although for the present time this generation has strong feelings for the PLO and its chairman , Yasser Arafat , they have grown impatient with the niceties of political diplomacy . |
| 2 | During the 11-year period 1973–83 , there were 228 changes in the composition of the S&P500 index ( Harris and Gurel , 1986 ) , although for the ten-year period 1980–9 there were only eight changes in the constituents of the Nikkei Stock Average . |
| 3 | LEFT Firm action needs to be taken towards a young dog which tries to bite , although during the teething phase , it is not unusual for many dogs to attempt to bite at their owner 's hand . |
| 4 | Further , although after the initial period the prosecutor may direct police investigation , it is doubtful that prosecutors will have the time or expertise to give more than general directions , thus leaving the police to do the job according to their lights . |
| 5 | Others think it tampers with nature although unlike the contraceptive pill which tops up hormones , HRT simply restores them to their previous and natural level . |
| 6 | Although throughout the preceding century case law decisions had narrowed its scope and denied its extension to any trade not in being at the time of its passage , it had remained nevertheless of great importance as a legitimating symbol of skilled labour 's " rights " . |
| 7 | It may be noted that although throughout the preceding period the vast proportion of the nation 's building costs was being spent on war damage repairs and reinstatement , an activity in which building and quantity surveyors provided invaluable service , the building surveyor made no impact within the Institution at this time . |
| 8 | This has bearing in England because , although like the Continental upsurge , the rise in illegitimacy began around 1750 , the illegitimacy rates of English cities were , unlike the European cities , beneath those of the surrounding countryside and were in fact lower than European figures . |
| 9 | Trusts , after all , could still feature in unconfirmed codicils , although with the post-classical application of formal requirements to all kinds of documents even this difference soon became nugatory . |
| 10 | Access to Viti is through the power station grounds and on to the road 's end , although with the late spring the road was just another snow field . |
| 11 | He had found it difficult to accustom himself to the practice , although with the right kind of company there were undoubted compensations . |
| 12 | Presidential elections were scheduled for January 1993 , although under the new Constitution parliament was given the power to postpone them . |
| 13 | In September 1939 he discovered to his cost that a communist ethic , although in the long term doubtless " inevitable " , was at that historical moment " impossible . |
| 14 | I used a small spray of birds-foot trefoil , and although in the finished picture it seems as though it has been pressed just as it was picked , in fact the majority of the piece was dismantled for pressing and reassembled for the picture . |
| 15 | Walmsley looks at several possible explanations and concludes that the change is largely due to the Act itself , firstly in the simple sense that the passing of the 1967 Act brought to an end a trial period of uncertainty for the police by making quite clear that , although in the future homosexual acts in private between consenting adults were to be legal , such acts in ‘ public ’ as defined by the Act were not . |
| 16 | Of the forty-odd subheadings in the plan only two point explicitly towards drama , " Socratism in tragedy " ( under " aesthetics " ) and " The tragedians and the state " ( under " politics … " ) , although in the retrospective light of BT a considerable number of the others can be seen as bearing specifically on the tragic ethos : for instance , " music and poetry " , " Aristotle 's aesthetic " , " ecstatic art in Greece " , " Dionysus and Apollo " . |
| 17 | Others ( e.g. Hatcher and Shall ice , 1983 ) have drawn upon Phizacklea and Miles 's North London research which , although in the final analysis conceives of racism as a form of false consciousness , nevertheless gives a more active , reasoning or reflexive role to the working class racist subject . |
| 18 | There is also a formal element of crime detection , although in the normal course of events all they encounter is shoplifting and parking offences . |
| 19 | Although in the normal course the maker of any written statement filed at court will be called to give oral testimony this may not always be the case . |
| 20 | He also throws away too many key phrases : ‘ This Triton of the minnows ’ is a magnificent epithet for Sicinius but it here gets lost and although in the great banishment-speech Mr Dance 's body-language is good ( as he hurls his coat to the ground in fine disdain ) it is significant that the directors resort to an echo-chamber effect on ‘ There is a world elsewhere . ’ |
| 21 | In April 1932 RAPP was disbanded , and although in the Soviet Union the ensuing liberalising effect was only temporary , lasting until 1935–6 when rigid cultural controls were reintroduced under the watchful eye of Zhdanov , in France , by contrast , 1932 was to mark the beginning of a prolonged period not only of cultural liberalisation within the PCF but also of political co-operation between communists and fellow-travelling sympathisers . |
| 22 | In the same broadcast , Erman announced government proposals to cut armed forces numbers from an estimated 75,000 to 55,000 and to reduce the period of conscription from a year to six months , although in the current year the number of conscripts called up was expected to be doubled . |
| 23 | In the event , he survived the Conference debate on crime and punishment without much difficulty , although in the following year back-benchers on his own side of the House of Commons forced open again the politically sensitive question of corporal punishment . |
| 24 | Cardio-vascular disease ( responsible for a quarter of all deaths worldwide ) threatened to increase dramatically in Latin America and other South countries , although in the developed world ( where half of all deaths were attributed to heart attacks and strokes ) the trend was generally downward . |
| 25 | Changes in taste , coupled with a general decline in craft techniques , have meant that the use and range of chemical treatments has declined in this century , although in the Far East the beautiful patinated Shakudo alloys ( see p. 95 ) are still produced by the traditional chemical treatments . |
| 26 | Although from the outside Sugar looked very complete , from the inside it was very different with much of the internal equipment fittings and instruments long since gone . |
| 27 | Measures to remove biliary tract calculi can be considered , although from the present study benefit from such procedures only occurred in four of 16 patients and stones recurred in 12 of 12 . |
| 28 | Having served three years with the TA , he transferred to the Regular Army three years ago , and although from the Royal Regiment of Wales now sports the Royal Hampshire cap badge for his six-month attachment . |
| 29 | Among North Kensington laundresses , the local maxim was ‘ the best ironer gets the worst husband ’ , although within the local community it would appear that husbands and wives adjusted to the often superior earning power of the wife , and in at least one suburban district the custom prevailed whereby husbands remained responsible only for a sum which covered rent , the baker 's bill and boots for the family . |
| 30 | A simple distinction between data protection and ‘ privacy ’ concerns the use of inaccurate or incomplete information when decision-making , although within the proper scope of data protection , is not necessarily a privacy issue ( Lindop Report 1978 : para.2.03 ) . |