Example sentences of "although they [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.

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1 What is , what is happening at the moment is although they ca n't afford the money for the full , for the full treatment they are making an allocation of money to improve matters round , round that area , which will be er , cos I , I told them that some of the pensioners were , w walking round by the bankment , it 's pouring of rain , which is perfectly true and that er the engineer should go round and see for himself and plus the fact how many of these people ever travel by bus , or do they always go by car , no , and also I brought up about bus shelters and all those sort of things , but any way , there will be some improvements for the bus station in the future .
2 For example , although they may initially over-extend a word like dog to a variety of different four-legged mammals , they cease to apply it to any part of the domain newly taken over with the acquisition of a new word .
3 The receptors are linked to the same area of the brain as the eyes , and so the fish can probably visualise these electric patterns , although they would only form a crude , shadowy image .
4 This is your room , hello , we 'll have to fix that bulb , may I ask you not to flush the toilet between the hours of eleven at night and seven in the morning while the sanitation department is still in , do n't be alarmed , cockroaches are a way of life in this part of the world , the gekkos are friendly too , although they wo n't eat the spiders .
5 The figure 's three times more than Spurs were offering and Swindon say they 're delighted , although they wo n't get the full amount themselves .
6 We still get an , er quite a few calls where fireworks have been pushed through letter boxes , in including pillar boxes , and they can cause all sorts of havoc although they 'll not do an awful lot of damage to individuals .
7 But these can not yet be attributed to the activities of an individual mosaicist — although they might well indicate the predilictions of an influential client or close- knit group of clients — and are still most significant when viewed over considerable periods of time .
8 Two wrongs do not make a right , of course , although they must necessarily shift the balance in how we might approach such an inalienable moral precept as the ‘ general belief that right and wrong are , after all , essentially distinct ’ .
9 However , such x i j could be basic in an initial BFS and , although they will eventually leave the basis , it is usually computationally advantageous to start with a BFS in which no basic variable x i j has = K .
10 They should be helped to recognise that racism is a reality in society and that , although they can not protect the child from it , they can prepare him or her to deal with it when it is encountered .
11 Staff can touch the body provided they wear disposable gloves , although they should not wash the body .
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