Example sentences of "although there [verb] [be] considerable " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Although there has been considerable support for a Teachers ' Council , the proposal has made little headway . |
| 5 | Although there have been considerable changes in the machinery of statutory planning and in the scope of the development/structure plans , the powers available to planners have altered little . |