Example sentences of "although [noun] may " in BNC.

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1 The government 's motive in attacking enclosures was not simply disinterested concern for justice for the poor , although Wolsey may have been anxious about their welfare .
2 The finance of trade and capital flows can be carried out in various currencies when the latter are freely convertible into each other , although payment may be preferred in currencies which have a more stable exchange value .
3 However , many philosophers today would probably go along more with Hare 's original position and say that although Kant may well have answered the third sort of question ( page 98 ) well , he has not adequately answered the second ( still less , it would generally be thought , the first ) .
4 The first is hard to explain because , although Kelly may be right in asserting that the clash was one of a kind seen every week , it was still bad enough for his own organisation to have upheld a ban on the man in the dock .
5 The table includes all the regular winter localities , although birds may be reported from many other suitable sites .
6 Although Offa may once have aspired to be ‘ king of the English ’ , Cenwulf did not , and it is arguable , for all his control of southern England apart from Wessex , that Mercian power declined in his reign .
7 Although change may evolve slowly , problem-posing can be a nurturing process with people exploring visions and building community together as they work on problems .
8 Although geneticists may think it an odd idea , it is therefore sensible for us to speak of genes ‘ for ’ stone shape , stone size , stone hardness and so on .
9 Although money may be available for firms to borrow and interest rates may be low , investment will not be increased because of pessimistic expectations .
10 Although nutrition may not be a responsibility of a care assistant , you may find it helpful to read more about diet as part of each resident 's personal care plan .
11 Although research may appear as logical analysis and mere statistics to you , clients sometimes endow it with a kind of magic .
12 It should also be noted that although candidates may be admitted initially as prospective students for honours , admission to the honours courses is not guaranteed at the outset but depends on performance in classes taken in the first two , or in some cases three , years .
13 Although doubts may have been growing about the Woodvilles ' ultimate intentions , there are no signs that anyone else was contemplating direct action against them — or that the family had yet done anything to warrant it .
14 Although doubts may have been growing about the Woodvilles ' ultimate intentions , there are no signs that anyone else was contemplating direct action against them — or that the family had yet done anything to warrant it .
15 Although tension may be built up , fictitious treatment usually involves the releasing of that tension ( by the ‘ happy ending ’ , for example ) or the reader can terminate the situation by lifting his or her eyes from the page .
16 Although warranties may be implied by statute , not only may they be inadequate , but the vendor will want the purchaser to acknowledge it has not relied on any warranty , representation or undertaking unless expressly set out in the sale agreement .
17 Although Crete may be part of Greece , somehow it 's different .
18 In a properly balanced meal , only one dish should be really hot although chilli/cayenne may be present in others — much as we in the West indiscriminately use black pepper .
19 The important point for the purposes of the argument being developed here is that although Freud may have been mistaken in his biology , the notion of the death instincts retains a usefulness which is missed by critics who reject the notion on the basis of ethological and biological evidence .
20 Although delegation may release more time for you it will cost additional time for others .
21 Mr. Jones : Although investment may be rising , surely the industrialists also made representations about the rise in interest rates and the cost of borrowing ?
22 Individuals can not enter into treaties , although States may enter into them on their behalf .
23 Although losses may be equal , the side that is the better able to sustain them will derive most benefit from any encounter .
24 Although CBT may not cover the full range of expert decision support facilities such systems incorporate additional , purely training features such as teaching , practice and checking .
25 He knows that , although Maastricht may mark a watershed in the process of integration , it does not mark the end of the process .
26 They were often made from bone and antler , although wood may have been used more often than is now apparent because it rarely survives .
27 A second technique is deconcentration — although functions may be departmentalised in a single central government department , it may nevertheless be desirable for administration to be dispersed from the geographical centre and into the regions and localities where it takes actual effect ‘ on the ground ’ .
28 Although promoters may employ reputable consultants , it is difficult for a consultant to a project to put all the disadvantages from the environmental point of view as thoroughly and firmly as would be done by a totally neutral person .
29 It represents a way of life , it seems , that has only really become possible in the nineteenth century , although Kepler may have approximated it .
30 Although broadcasters may feel that RDS is user-friendly the consumer-industry is only gradually responding to the growing dislike of over-complex and often confusing controls ; c.f. video recorders easily set to record the wrong programme on the wrong channel at the wrong time , and teletext units that remain under-used .
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