Example sentences of "although it is [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Although it is sometimes called the " magic e " , the e itself does n't change anything : it marks the fact that the word should be pronounced differently . |
| 32 | It is apparent from these factors that , although it is sometimes assumed ( by drawing on the basis of US experience , for instance ) that the main driving-force behind the establishment and growth of employers ' associations is related to market or ‘ economic ’ factors , wider international evidence suggests that a more eclectic explanation is required . |
| 33 | Although it is sometimes simulated by looking through a peephole , this gives only a crude approximation of the condition . |
| 34 | The ulcer is usually found on the glans penis or the foreskin , although it is sometimes found at the base of the shaft of the penis — the so-called ‘ condom chancre ’ . |
| 35 | For the most part MA atrophies and consequently the media in recent insects is generally MP , although it is usually designated by the symbol M. The Odonata and Plecoptera , however , seem to be unusual in retaining MA and not MP , while further research is needed into the constitution of the media in other Orthopteroid insects . |
| 36 | Any type of wood can be waxed , although it is usually applied to pine or oak . |
| 37 | This aspect of lost practical and discursive consciousness is well recognised in the literature on dementia , although it is usually described in the language of psychogeriatrics . |
| 38 | In her case , of course , it is the figure which provides the impetus , although it is usually evoked in absentia only by the clothes it supports ( both shows until 27 March ) . |
| 39 | The Safrane RXE makes do with the ageing Douvrin V6 , although it is now mounted transversely and has its cylinder heads shrouded in ‘ V6 ie ’ labelled silver plastic . |
| 40 | ‘ Yes , although it is now called the Robben Ford Signature series . |
| 41 | The rights to Presley 's ‘ Sun ’ recordings were acquired by RCA Victor together with the rights to the artist , and although it is now known that the tapes in RCA Victor 's vault are not actually the 1955 originals , they are extremely good copies , and all have been reissued on compact disc . |
| 42 | Although it is now used with a cup , the saucer had a very different origin . |
| 43 | There are still traces of hut circles attributed to an Iron Age occupation and , at the time of the Roman invasion , the local patriots , the Brigantes , established a hill fort to resist the foreign legions ; an ancient rampart wall , built around the perimeter of the summit and almost half a mile in circumference , has survived the centuries although it is now crumbled and has many gaps . |
| 44 | It was also — although it is now forgotten in the West — the scene of some of the fiercest fighting between Axis and Allied forces in the Middle East . |
| 45 | Although it is obviously hoped that these accounts will be interesting as economic history , whatever they reveal about the working and role of government may also be relevant and applicable today . |
| 46 | In fact , it is likely that all mammals have some colour vision , although it is poorly developed in nocturnal animals , such as the cat . |
| 47 | Although it is commonly assumed that these tests reflect compliance with the diatary treatment , this has never really been proved for ingestion of small amounts of gluten . |
| 48 | This last judgement ( although it is commonly made ) is speculative , of course , as the scribe is normally anonymous , but it is analogous to rejecting live speakers from a random sample on the grounds that they do not speak as we think they ought to speak , or rejecting attested spoken forms on the grounds that they are not what we would expect in some particular location . |
| 49 | Thus although it is commonly suggested that the notion of certainty is relevant to the analysis of claims to knowledge , but not to the analysis of knowledge itself ( e.g. , in Woozley , 1953 ) , this leaves us with no method of explaining why certainty should be required before one can claim knowledge when it is not required for knowledge itself , i.e. , for the existence of what one is claiming . |
| 50 | For although it is constantly argued that the police represent and are drawn from the community they serve , the cultural style required in the body of the police officer inevitably sets him slightly apart from the ‘ civvies ’ outside the institution , especially where such symbolic use of clothing and beards or hair is the province of the youthful innovator . |
| 51 | Although it is somewhat limited in its applications it is easy to operate and above all it is fun . |
| 52 | Although it is often assumed that these were one and the same battle , there is no evidence that Clovis fought at Zülpich , and it is possible that they were separate events . |
| 53 | Although it is often presented as a scientific term , relating to features of urban development , its use is better understood as part of an ideological set which has been borrowed from the United States . |
| 54 | Although it is often treated as a little more than a menu system , the Windows Program Manager is a flexible organising tool for the Windows environment . |
| 55 | Although it is often claimed that exercise has a beneficial psychological effect in its own right , the evidence for this is scanty and it is always difficult to separate the specific effect of exercise from the moral support and social contact which usually goes with it . |
| 56 | Although it is often claimed that the camera does not lie , when using old photographs for historical purposes pupils need to give attention to the processes involved in choosing a subject and taking a photograph . |
| 57 | Notice that we avoid the ( anthropomorphic ) term memory , and the term core store , which presupposes a particular store technology ( although it is often used generically ) ; when we wish to distinguish among several levels of storage on a computer , we will refer to this basic level as main or primary store . |
| 58 | Although it is often taken to imply that the citizen is entitled to ‘ social rights ’ , it does not immediately conjure up a picture of socialist collectivism which would alienate those on the right . |