Example sentences of "although [det] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Although little headway was made at the meeting , the committee agreed to meet again on April 1 .
2 As far as it goes , the order has the support of the industry , although that support is not unreserved , does not come from all quarters and does not relate to all aspects of the provisions .
3 Howard was , therefore , in favour of a civil service system , although that concept was relatively new in the administration of Britain .
4 The partisan feels that he can trust the stranger , although that trust is tested in future weeks .
5 Although that decision was not mentioned in the Tudor Grange case , by analogy the Unfair Contract Terms Act did not apply to secondary contracts which were retrospective waivers of existing claims .
6 A right can be viewed in terms of a claim , although that expression is itself ambiguous .
7 so I actually felt that although that presentation was very good , it was almost like a blind presentation because there was no benefit to him at the end of it because he , he did n't have , you had n't got those finishing point
8 The Scheme has been successful in contributing to the increase in the proportion of suspects who receive legal advice at the police station , although that proportion is still relatively low .
9 He 's what they used to call an alternative comic , although that description is already a bit out of date .
10 Both of them treated the case as one in which there was an implied threat by the defendant to deprive the plaintiff 's clerk of his right to take extracts from the parish register for no charge ; and both appear to have concluded that , in the circumstances , although that threat was made before the plaintiff 's clerk obtained the extracts he needed , nevertheless it was causative of the payment which was therefore recoverable on the ground of compulsion .
11 Although that curriculum is often represented as diminishing teachers ' choices and initiatives , it is important for heads and their colleagues to note how matters of culture which have many facets can be handled alongside a national concern that schools should be more readily comparable with each other and should be readily accountable , not least in their pupils ' attainment levels .
12 However with respect to the ground for invalidity which is most pertinent to the community interest , conflict with a norm of jus cogens , only the ‘ parties to a dispute ’ can invoke the special procedure in Article 66 ( a ) , although that procedure is compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice .
13 The plot is concluded by a deception which we see leading to a misdeed , although that misdeed is only anticipated in the speech of all three dramatis personae at the end rather than enacted in the text .
14 None the less , part of Chapter 4 will be concerned with something which looks rather like the ‘ geography of production ’ , although that term is inadequate in defining the nature of my concern .
15 It was still my task to fight for the present , although that task was becoming less appropriate daily , and to maintain the status quo which I had made for myself , and which was the only place where I belonged .
16 I felt more than just the centre of attention , although that feeling is always present .
17 The Whig and Tory groupings had come into existence over a particular crisis , and although that crisis was not about just one issue — Exclusion — it was the case that the parties polarised over how they thought the crisis could be resolved .
18 Although neither country was a signatory to the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty [ see p. 38255 ] , it was felt that the safeguards agreement , the culmination of a series of bilateral initiatives following the return of both countries to civilian government in the early 1980s , would prevent nuclear technology being used to manufacture weapons .
19 If interactionism was the leftist response to the inadequacies and failures of positivism , the new deterrence writers represent much more the response of the right ( although neither category is ideologically homogeneous ) .
20 Then , although neither painter was exhibiting publicly in Paris after 1909 , by 1914 Picasso had held one-man exhibitions in England , Germany , Spain and America , while Braque exhibited abroad more rarely , and then only in group shows .
21 Although each component is necessary to the final taste of the cake , to ask how much of the taste is contributed by the flour , how much by the eggs , how much by the time and temperature of baking makes no sense ; the mixing and baking have qualitatively transformed the components .
22 In Daniel Deronda , Gwendolen 's enjoyment of ‘ her own furlong of corridors ’ at Ryelands , with its ‘ rich glow of light and colour ’ in numerous rooms , is destroyed by her awareness that , although each detail is superficially right , the whole is profoundly wrong , for this house too rests upon the ruin of other lives , those of Grandcourt 's mistress and her unacknowledged children .
23 But although each step is random , the path has sequence and location ; yet it does not have a datum .
24 Although each screen is deceptively complicated and takes a fair few attempts to solve , the solution is found through brain-power and not trial and error — once you 've solved a screen you 'll never forget how to do it .
25 Although each version is intended to serve pedagogical needs , neither one provides a pedagogically-based rationale for the selection of themes that it proposes .
26 In fact , although each volume was prepared under the ‘ haute direction de M. Camille Saint-Säens , the great man himself edited only the first five volumes exclusively the keyboard and chamber music and motets .
27 Although each site was controlled by the operator , they were supervised and inspected by the Department of Transport .
28 Breakfast is a buffet , and although half board is not available at the hotel , there are plenty of cafes and restaurants in the resort .
29 Although this proposition is wide enough to cover payment made in response to an illegal demand it was stated in the context of a court order of which the compulsitor must be assumed to be very much stronger than that of a mere demand which has yet to be enforced .
30 Although this proposition is unlikely ever to be falsified , nevertheless one can not maintain that it can not in principle be false .
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