Example sentences of "although it [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tim , the gobaholic pretty boy frontman , is already a seasoned media pro — although it rankles the band that it 's Tim 's face that is being plastered everywhere . |
| 2 | Tim , the gobaholic pretty boy frontman , is already a seasoned media pro — although it rankles the band that it 's Tim 's face that is being plastered everywhere . |
| 3 | Although it keeps the economy afloat , the flood of coca dollars has brought no developmental benefit . |
| 4 | The essence of clientelism requires class differences and , therefore , although it softens the harshness of status differences it also ensures their continuation . |
| 5 | Although the Chicago School over-used the Darwinian metaphor of the struggle for survival , and although it made the mistake of equating ‘ society ’ or ‘ community ’ with the social systems of relatively small areas , the Chicago School still has much to offer in terms of the new kind of spatial sociology which we started to develop in Chapter 1 . |
| 6 | The Report distinguished between homosexuality as a ‘ condition ’ and homosexual behaviour , and , although it advocated the removal of the latter from the criminal law , it remained firm in its condemnation of homosexuality . |
| 7 | For the older baby , early weaning may be the answer , although it involves the risk of sensitizing the child to even more foods or — if all the high-risk foods are avoided — failing to give the child an adequate diet . |
| 8 | We never run out of conversation , although it knocked the wind out of his sails when I told him the news and he suggested I contact a faith-healer friend of his . |
| 9 | ‘ Think how it wakes the seeds ’ , this itself suggests that the force in question is not God and is indifferent to whether the man lives or dies as although it takes the effort to wake the seeds and the earth it can not wake ‘ sides full-nerved — still warm ’ . |
| 10 | Although it noted the absence of satisfactory command structures and evidence of serious incompetence , the report did not find any evidence of police complicity in the massacre . |
| 11 | The headhunting business as a whole , although it promotes the idea of systematising personal networks , still owes much to chance , coincidence and Lady Luck . |
| 12 | Blockley Mill , further downstream , has also lost its wheel , although it retains the axle and the head and tail races . |
| 13 | Although it enshrined the idea that Spain would one day be ruled by a prince of the blood , the key concept was " one day " , for no date was specified for this event . |
| 14 | Although it had the support of the United States and France , acceptance of the report was vetoed by five Security Council members , including Austria , China , Cuba and Zimbabwe . |
| 15 | The Simon tour aroused angry protest from some opposition groups including the PAC and Azapo , although it had the backing of the ANC . |
| 16 | This was not , of course , just a Protestant response , although it benefited the Protestants that the great Catholic powers of France and Spain should tear one another apart ; their temporary truce in 1556 had been regarded as a significant reversal to the cause of reform , and when the war was renewed one of the leading English preachers , Christopher Goodman , was to urge the English not to fight for Spain , just as Knox urged the Scots not to fight for France . |
| 17 | On June 10 , 1990 , the South Korean electronics company , Samsung , acknowledged that its planned sale of TDX digital telecommunications exchanges to the Soviet Union violated COCOM regulations , although it rejected the possibility of cancelling the contract worth US$12,000 million . |
| 18 | The year 1927 was a good year from several viewpoints , although it saw the death of Sir Anker Simmons ( knighted in 1920 ) , one of the Club 's quartet of founders . |
| 19 | Yet , although it broke the threat of a possible French invasion of England , the victory in itself brought little immediate advantage to the English . |
| 20 | In [ 13 ] , the change of syntactic form , although it makes the sentence more concise , has phonological consequences which appear to be undesirable . |
| 21 | The Law did not , however , provide for genuine representative government as demanded by many Hong Kong citizens , although it increased the number of directly elected seats to the Legislative Council to one-third of the total by 1997 . |
| 22 | Although it restricts the hunting season to three months ( ending on 31 January , not 10 March as before ) , it allows regional governments to alter the deadline . |
| 23 | Although it welcomed the extension of home ownership , it also recognized the problems of families who could not or would not take on the responsibility of home purchase ( Department of the Environment 1977b ) . |
| 24 | The absorption of a substantial Muslim population as Muscovy pushed east and south presented a relatively minor problem — although it underlined the Church 's reliance on state support and fiscal sanctions to convert the heathens . |
| 25 | Savings accounts in banks were left untouched , but the decree limited for the next six months the amount of cash which could be withdrawn from accounts to a maximum Rbs500 per month , although it authorized the use of bank transfers by individuals for payment to state shops and enterprises . |
| 26 | These speculative balances are available for the purchase of types of wealth such as financial assets , since wealth held as money , although it has the advantage of being perfectly liquid , earns no rate of return . |
| 27 | In this case a solution was at hand , although it helped the teacher rather more than the children : it was to neglect those children working in curriculum areas perceived to be relatively unimportant ( such as art and topic work ) , to devise for them low-level activities which could be tackled with minimal teacher intervention , and to focus attention on those children who demanded it . |
| 28 | Although it is an intense period of development and although it provides the basis of values , attitudes , and feelings — as well as darker things like repressions and obsessions — that may last a lifetime , it soon passes . |
| 29 | For front projection , the projector is still threaded up reversing left and right , as in rear projection ( it is put in the ‘ wrong ’ way round in order to come out correct in the final composite ) ; but instead of being behind a translucent screen it s in front of , and to one side of , a glass beaded screen which reflects nearly 100 per cent of the light falling on it but on y in the direction from which it came Though the projector is at 90° to the camera-screen axis and its beam is therefore initially parallel to the plane of the screen , passing in front of the actors in the foreground this beam is deflected by a half-silvered mirror at an angle of 45° to the beam This semi-transparent mirror is coated at the front ( unlike normal mirrors , coated behind the glass ) with a very thin layer of aluminium — silver tarnishes too easily Alternatively , the layer of aluminium may be spattered on , so that tiny reflective spots of metal are interspersed with tiny transparent gaps So , although it reflects the beam , the camera can photograph both the action and the reflection from the screen through the mirror Though the mirror reflects the still or moving image from the projector on to the actors and any foreground props or sets as well as on to the screen , the level of illumination of the image is much less than that on the actors , so the camera records only that part of the image reflected from the screen . |
| 30 | Although it missed the clarity of the session version , it was still strong enough to make number one in the independent charts and NME picked it as its single of the week . |