Example sentences of "although [ex0] [vb past] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there had been countless works already produced on the European theme , it was a subject that Gould realised would be forever popular among the amateur naturalists and bird-fanciers of Britain . |
| 2 | Although there had been brief conflicts between England and France in the reigns of Edward I and Edward II , the reasons for war were now much more substantial than they had been in 1294 or 1324 , and the will to war on the part of the king , if not yet on the part of most of the nobility , was much more apparent . |
| 3 | Pupils themselves disliked the way that they had previously been divided from one another ; and although there had been considerable advances made in the early 1980s in running joint CSE/GCE courses and examinations , these were patchy and voluntary , and unlikely to have been acceptable to the more academic of those who had an interest in the outcome of the examinations , especially the universities . |
| 4 | Although there had been considerable growth in Russian manufacturing industry between 1880 and 1914 , by any criteria it was still quite inadequate to cope with the strains imposed on it by modern industrialised warfare . |
| 5 | Although there had been considerable Russian settlement in Asia before the railway age , it was not until the building of the Central Asian and Trans-Siberian lines that settlement , and with it the exploitation of minerals and other natural resources , really took off . |
| 6 | In the case of the Ks , the SMG claimed the police had been slow to take statements and prepare cases , and that , inexplicably , weeks elapsed before anyone was charged with the December attack on Anoup K although there had been clear identification . |