Example sentences of "although there be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there is actually little that is novel in ‘ sociobiology ’ , for the key elements have been in the air since the writings of Sir Ronald Fisher and J. B. S. Haldane , the extensive if not exhaustive application of population genetics to social evolution means that the relevance of evolutionary biology in the social sciences can no longer be ignored . |
| 2 | It is also being heavily promoted as a replacement for the keyboard in many areas of use although there is currently little software available to use with it . |
| 3 | Although there is almost complete freedom of trade , many traders choose not to do so in response to the prevailing wishes of their local communities . |
| 4 | It is generally accepted by most researchers in the field ( although there is now increasing concern over drought and climate change , see below ) , as is the three-step concept of forest damage , which distinguishes ‘ predisposing ’ , ‘ inciting ’ and ‘ contributing ’ factors . |
| 5 | The practical services rendered by each side to the other do not seem to have been all that large although there is still considerable speculation about the volume of weapons with which the Vietminh were supplied . |
| 6 | Four months ' observations of QB 1 reveal an orbit that would be expected for a Kuiper-belt object , although there is still considerable uncertainty in the eccentricity . |
| 7 | Although there is fairly general agreement on the terms to be applied to sediment particles of various sizes the definitions used for the bounding sizes is not uniform . |
| 8 | Little passage is recorded in the spring , although there is fairly steady decline in the winter flocks after February . |
| 9 | Although there is apparently little difference in the proportions of male and female carers who are providing twenty hours or more help and support each week , clear gender differences do emerge as care-giving becomes more intensive . |
| 10 | And although there is less new material to play on your deck , second-hand shops are bulging with whole collections that have been turfed out by over-zealous digital converts . |
| 11 | In fact , although there are both surreal and baroque elements in his work , Gironella prefers to call it mestizo ’ , a term which has often had negative , racist overtones but which has been acclaimed in this century , especially in Mexico , as a positive value , indeed the distinguishing feature of Mexican culture : the rich and fruitful mixture of the European with the indigenous American . |
| 12 | Although there are also other Gaelic names for hemlock , the Biblical reference in Hosea X. 4 uses this name : ( Thus judgment springeth up like a hemlock in the furrows of the field ) . |
| 13 | In Stuart Hall 's words ( 1981 : 238 ) ‘ there are no wholly separate ‘ cultures ’ … [ no ‘ bourgeois ’ hit-song , no ‘ proletarian ’ industrial folk song , no ‘ petit bourgeois ’ musical comedy , or ‘ working-class ’ rock and roll ] … attached , in a relation of historical fixity , to specific ‘ whole ’ classes — although there are clearly distinct and variable class cultural formations ' . |
| 14 | Although there are apparently different circumstances which initiate arrested larval development , most commonly the stimulus is an environmental one received by the free-living infective stages prior to ingestion by the host . |
| 15 | The main disadvantage is that the range and quality of items on offer is often limited , and although there are usually good examples of the most popular groups , you are less likely to find a wide selection of village and nomadic rugs . |
| 16 | It also tells us : ’ Although there are now additional opportunities to expand our share of the YT market , the funding arrangements are considered inadquate to make such a move worthwhile . |
| 17 | Although there are now strict regulations governing wood cutting and kerosene is sold at the entrance of the park for cooking , Hillary explains ‘ Lots of people tempt the Sherpas offering money for wooden fires . ’ |
| 18 | Although there are more elaborate clauses , copying the wording at the beginning of cl 10.2 of Precedent 1 would suffice in most cases . |
| 19 | Spatial and tenurial differentiation is a reality in my locales , although there are very great cleavages within tenures as well as between them . |
| 20 | Weiner and Labov ( 1983 ) on the other hand attempt in a complicated chain of reasoning to argue that although there are indeed different stylistic and discourse meanings associated with the agentless passive and active alternants , and in some contexts different truth-conditional meanings , these differences might reasonably be disregarded . |
| 21 | This absence of feudal social and political structure prior to the onset of industrialisation has been held to help account for US ‘ exceptionalism ’ , in the form of a weakened socialist consciousness and the lack of strong political Party-union ties , although there are undoubtedly other important factors as well , including the scarcity of manpower and ample employment opportunities for skilled workers , which militated against challenge along political and ideological lines ; a complex ethnic ( immigrant ) labour force composition and racial cleavage , which impeded collective action on a class basis ; and a political and constitutional structure that discouraged the setting up of third parties ( Lipset , 1977 ) . |
| 22 | Getting a good set of prints is not cheap , although there are less expensive rates for students and most actors have a stock of postcard size prints that they can send off at the merest rumour of work . |
| 23 | She found that the proportion of time taken up by pauses varied considerably between subjects , although there was also considerable variation within subjects depending on the topic of conversation . |
| 24 | Although there was almost unanimous praise of Eliot 's poetic or sheerly musical abilities ( which in any case had their roots deep in his American experience ) , there was a certain distrust of the religious sensibility which seemed to be expressed in the sequence . |
| 25 | Although there was only fragmentary discussion of the matter at the Tenth Session , the United Kingdom view prevailed ; an example perhaps of the effect of shortage of time on the content of international conventions . |
| 26 | The popularity of programme types did not change much , although there was always great variation within them and overlap between them . |
| 27 | In sum , their duties probably varied from place to place and from time to time , although there was always likely to be a strong police element , especially in those areas on or near the frontiers where military government was paramount and where the natives enjoyed only limited autonomy . |
| 28 | Imperial and United Biscuits claimed that , although there was relatively little overlap between the two groups ( except in crisps and snack food ) , growth could be more rapid as a combined group as a result of concentrating on complementary activities ( eg UB s products could be sold more extensively in Imperial 's Courage pubs ) . |
| 29 | In particular , growth was most impressive in the accessible countryside , especially in rural south-east England ( including most of Kent , Surrey , Hampshire , Berkshire , Oxfordshire , Buckinghamshire , Hertfordshire and Essex ) , although there were also important outliers in the South West , in Wiltshire and Dorset . |
| 30 | The evening had turned fine in the past hour or so , although there were still dark clouds massed in the west , over where Ireland lay , but Karen had spent a useful day revising , and felt virtuous . |