Example sentences of "although [pers pn] is [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Although she is not the best-looking boat in the world , she may , with her radical shape , twin rudders and blistering turn of speed , just survive in the hands of a true enthusiast .
2 But I did support Mrs Robinson because although she is only a symbol she is a powerful symbol .
3 The Government have a fine record on increasing benefits in line with prices every year , but I have a particular point to raise with my right hon. Friend , although it is principally a matter for the Treasury .
4 There is in fact no need to state in the sale agreement that liability is joint and several ( although it is invariably the practice to do so ) as this is implied by the Civil Liability ( Contribution ) Act 1978 , s1(1) and the ability to recover from fellow vendors and their estates is extended by s6(1) of that Act .
5 Community policing is a preventive rather than a crime control made of policing and in the United Kingdom it has become associated in the popular image particularly with those inner-city areas where crime rates have risen sharply and where police relations with ethnic minorities have deteriorated , although it is also a response to the police 's loss of contact with other sections of the community , especially young people ( Schaffer 1980 ) .
6 For instance , Falmouth may be called a tourist resort , although it is also a shopping centre for local residents , and it has dockyards , a fishing industry and some light industry .
7 The ATP Tour , Year Two : 1991 , is a book for the enthusiast although it is also a book that you would have no hesitation in showing off to your friends , even those with only a passing interest in the game .
8 Although it is partly a response to the claims of transnationalism and hence of recent birth , Neo-Realism belongs firmly to the Realist tradition , as its name suggests .
9 The present owners continue to do their best to maintain it , although it is clearly no easy matter .
10 Although it is clearly the case that coronations and royal weddings seem to evoke strong emotional responses ( Jennings and Madge , 1987 ; Ziegler , 1978 ) a rhetorical approach can not rest content with a description , which suggests that British attitudes are quite so straightforward .
11 Although it is clearly the case that the Nizan that is currently available in the cultural supermarket is predominantly Sartrean , the precise contours of Nizan 's existence have become blurred .
12 Although it is over a year since the end of the Gulf War , the Iraqi Ministry of Culture and Information is still trying to recover various ancient treasures dating back to the prehistoric and Islamic periods which disappeared from museums in the north and the south of the country .
13 This ought not to present any problems , although it is probably a good idea to emphasise the importance of the child 's language and to try to reduce any anxiety or embarrassment that adults might feel at the prospect of being recorded .
14 RBG Edinburgh recorded 786,000 visits in 1990 , although it is probably a minimum figure and with more careful monitoring of ALL visitor numbers , including educational activities and special groups , a more accurate figure should be available for 1991 .
15 Nevertheless , although it is not a reason to pass over them as Todd does , a limiting factor in the work of experimental novelists in Britain does seem , as he suggests , to be that they are consistently assigned to marginal rather than mainstream positions .
16 Men in the West seem to fear this dichotomy , although it is not a separation but more a reorganisation of life so that the spiritual gains the most important part and the rest of life falls into place beneath .
17 Once coloured up , this is truly an attractively marked eel ( although it is not a true eel ) , the dark , glossy tan brown being irregularly mottled from head to tail with black blotches .
18 For CND , the specific campaign against Trident is a way of exposing the government 's fantasies ( although it is not a campaign that Labour can itself pursue much further ) .
19 This can be done for any letter position , including the first and the last letters of a word , and for more than one letter position , although it is not a good policy to allow more than two per word if the accuracy of the recogniser is to be relied on at all .
20 Although it is not a matter for me , I would hope and expect that Parliament would be similarly sensitive to the need to refrain from trespassing upon the province of the courts .
21 Although it is not a mountain tent I did take it on a high camp with a family group .
22 For a long time we have made it clear that the largest restriction on the growth of the transplant programme is the availability of donated organs , although it is not a restriction which has stopped the programme in its tracks .
23 Basil Bunting the poet wrote a poem called Briggflatts which , although it is not an easy piece to read , has a cragged beauty which fits these dales and fells .
24 Though I do believe Alfieri is still important for the role he plays which I mentioned at the beginning as it is clever of Miller to incorporate the ‘ narrator ’ into the play in this way although it is not an original idea as Shakespeare used it with his characters ' soliloquies .
25 The most popular route of ascent is from Ingleton and this is the one invariably followed by first-time visitors although it is not the best , and the much-trodden path is well populated on most days of the year .
26 The same is true — although it is not the prime focus here — in the area of internal ‘ information management ’ ( using the term in its widest sense ) .
27 This is in a sense the most fundamental statistical representation , although it is not the most convenient for the development of models of turbulent structure based on experimental observation .
28 You are moving the position of the oxygen and although it is n't a er a er well no , functional group ?
29 Sheffield boats two championship matches and a Sunday game at present , but has only 499 members , while Scarborough 's membership is a disappointing 164 , although it is easily the best ground in the county for pay-at-the-gate fans .
30 Although it is currently the practice of Customs to allow the vendor to deduct input tax attributable to a TOGC ( which is an " outside-the-scope " supply ) , it appears this practice might be changing in view of changes to s15(2) VAT Act 1983 and Reg 32 of the VAT ( General ) Regulations 1985 ; the changes are intended to put the right to deduct input tax in respect of certain outside-the-scope supplies onto a statutory footing .
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