Example sentences of "[conj] although it [modal v] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a tete-a-tete recently with analysts and the press , Windows NT product manager , Dwayne Walker , said that although it can be used on a server , it was ‘ first and foremost a desktop operating system . ’ |
| 2 | Nevertheless it had broken the thread by which the country had been tied to France and although it might be claimed that , as in Burma during the war or in Indonesia at the end of the war , it was a spurious independence and part of Japanese mischief making , nevertheless Vietnam was now in a formal sense independent if not exactly free . |
| 3 | This weakens the phylogenetic potential for these postcranial characters in Dryopithecus , and although it could be suggested that Dryopithecus could belong in either of the two derivative clades ( Ponginae or Homininae ) , additional supporting evidence would be needed before such a claim could be substantiated . |
| 4 | Gower also doubted the usefulness of cost benefit analysis , and although it should be recognised that there are indeed limitations to such a technique , as Veljanovski ( 1988 ) points out , this is not a valid excuse for the total disregard of the appraisal of the cost of alternative systems . |
| 5 | This context having been provided , it will be possible to reassess the significance of electoral behaviour , and although it can be seen that in some areas and in certain types of constituency manipulation and deference were key factors , on the whole the electorate could not be easily controlled from above . |
| 6 | But although it could be seen as the fashion of protest — ‘ what could be more defiant at a time of recession and social decay than seemingly lavish , luxurious clothes ? ’ |
| 7 | Because although it could be argued that what an utterance means is readily recoverable by anyone who can read printed English , it is important to understand that what the speaker wishes to express is more often than not defined by the factors which get lost in the process of transcription . |