Example sentences of "although at the " in BNC.

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1 Although at the time of writing the weather has reverted to the usual Icelandic summer , there was considerable new route activity in April and May .
2 This helps it to spin up to speed quickly , which reduces turbo lag and improves that all-important mid-range response , although at the expense of outright potency .
3 ‘ In fact , no disconnection was made at the fuse end , and although at the other relay end the old wire was disconnected , it was not cut back as it should have been , nor was it secured out of the way of its previous contact . ’
4 There was even early , ridiculous talk of his passing Hare 's incredible 438-point record , although at the equivalent stage last season the maestro had 17 more points .
5 ‘ The role is very powerful , although at the same time Lola is very sensitive .
6 In a sense , history is repeating itself in that the sequence of development in the past has also contained local ‘ boom ’ elements such as kelp gathering in the 19th century or the bulb growing schemes in the 1960's , both of which foundered in response to changes in external economic imperatives , although at the outset there were high hopes that unique local resources i.e. seaweed and disease-free sandy soils , would provide enduring employment opportunities .
7 For economy of space occupied by the site of the lift the two inclined ways would generally be side by side and although at the same inclination and extending between the same levels they would not be in the same plane but echeloned so that the one extends , so to speak , from the right side of the head bay to the right side of the tail bay whilst the other extends from the left side of the head bay to the left side of the tail bay .
8 The members regarded the course as satisfactory , although at the next month 's committee meeting the decision was taken to dig trenches around the back and across the 4th green .
9 At last , after almost fifty years of problems , the Club was on the verge of a breakthrough , although at the time did not know it .
10 Although at the end of Bair 's lengthy work a number of contradictions and conflicts do remain , this is nevertheless a meticulously researched study which provides many insights into de Beauvoir 's world .
11 Although at the time they were made up of an apparently infinite chain of familiar days , I can think of them now only as a whole .
12 However , although at the upper levels of society locative and other bynames became surnames and survived from this early period , this was not true at the lower levels and certainly there is no uniformity in the development of surnames .
13 The beneficiary is twice described as a legatee , although at the beginning we are told that she acquired per fideicommissum .
14 Although at the time of his discovery Priestley could not have foreseen the use of oxygen in aeronautics as Vital Air for the aeronauts to breathe when the atmosphere became too thin , such use was suggested as early as 1784 .
15 A low shoulder angle will give a low centre of gravity and least risk , although at the expense of a reduction in the power of the strokes .
16 After leaving school he had been unable to settle , had wandered from place to place and had eventually landed up in Borstal , where his crimes had given him a reputation for toughness and ruthlessness which he had felt compelled to live up to ( although at the same time hating it and himself ) .
17 As chairman of the Cambridgeshire Committee in effect , covering the whole of East Anglia — some 800 youngsters came within her province , although at the height of the evacuation this figure increased to 2000 .
18 Something might be true although at the same time harmful and dangerous in the highest degree ; indeed it could pertain to the fundamental nature of existence that a complete knowledge of it might destroy one — so that the strength of a spirit could be measured by how much ‘ truth ’ it could take , more clearly , to what degree it needed it attenuated , veiled , sweetened , blunted and falsified .
19 Although at the time he was ‘ not a great fan of industrial specialism' , his views have changed .
20 When we last surveyed the audit fees of the FT-SE 100 constituents ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November 1991 , p 12 ) , total audit fees rose by just over 2% , as compared with a much more buoyant 11% — although at the time considered to be modest — the year before ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November 1990 , p 14 ) .
21 Although at the time of writing Lena Parsons is still intent on pursuing the lawsuit , Lowe 's lawyers claim that Lena has no right to file on Jan 's behalf because the divorce papers show that Jan 's father has custody of her .
22 Although at the time the Minister rejected this suggestion as unacceptable , the Government soon agreed to most of the MP 's suggestions .
23 The eccentric Cantona jetted hastily back to France after being dropped from the side at QPR , although at the time the club claimed he had been given permission .
24 Although at the time some of these vehicles seemed , and have since proved , to be new forms of dinosaur , that did not exempt us from our obligation as educators to prepare our students for the world of work some ten , twenty , thirty years ahead when they would be the key executives in the publishing industry .
25 Although at the age of not quite two , her maternal grandmother described her as ‘ Poor little Louise very ugly ’ , photographs show that she was not an unattractive woman .
26 Although at the moment it is up to you to decide what form of updating you would like to undertake , it would be useful to look at any developments in your area aimed at your special interest , and to find out from employers what they might expect from you in advance of offering you a job .
27 Hopefully , he will pull through although at the moment he is a perfect illustration that rugby league 's vaunted reputation for picking talent and making hard-headed business decisions is so much hot air .
28 A few minutes later , Linda , a slice of cake in her hand , slipped out of the kitchen and ran up the stairs , thinking to ask Sergeant Joe if the poor young woman with a sprain wanted her shoes polished , although at the moment the eating of the cake was interfering with her spit .
29 Servants too ought to be diligent and refrain from gaming and other dissolute pursuits , although at the same time they were fully entitled to ‘ competent wages and clothing with trew payments of the same ’ .
30 This argument , which Foucault derives from Deleuze , although at the same time he tellingly invokes Sartre 's theoretical formulation designed to solve exactly the same problem , provides a way of avoiding the incommensurability of the relation of the event to the concept by allowing ‘ the disjunctive affirmation of both ’ — thus solving the problem that the concept , as a part of the language of generality , will inevitably travesty the event 's singularity :
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