Example sentences of "although [pron] [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there had been countless works already produced on the European theme , it was a subject that Gould realised would be forever popular among the amateur naturalists and bird-fanciers of Britain . |
| 2 | It was in 1984 that the war at sea began to hit the headlines , although there had been earlier incidents involving attacks on shipping . |
| 3 | Although there had been some dissenters , international approval was given through the London Dumping Convention , an annually reviewed agreement signed by forty-six countries . |
| 4 | Although there had been brief conflicts between England and France in the reigns of Edward I and Edward II , the reasons for war were now much more substantial than they had been in 1294 or 1324 , and the will to war on the part of the king , if not yet on the part of most of the nobility , was much more apparent . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the case of the Ks , the SMG claimed the police had been slow to take statements and prepare cases , and that , inexplicably , weeks elapsed before anyone was charged with the December attack on Anoup K although there had been clear identification . |
| 8 | Although there has been intermittent interest in this area since that time , it is only more recently that there have been suitable techniques for more effective study . |
| 9 | In Britain these are in a state of flux although there has been much discussion about the role of the inspector over a long period of time . |
| 10 | In describing the framework , we have not focused on the types of individuals who might be most productive and , probably at the same time , most comfortable in each quadrant , although there has been much speculation about this in our discussions with managers and researchers . |
| 11 | Although there has been much research on the determination of asset prices , there has been little research on what determines the volume of turnover in asset markets . |
| 12 | But although there has been detailed research on several rhynchosaurs , there are still important controversies surrounding their diet and their mode of life , their significance in Triassic ecosystems , and their taxonomic position ( that is , their relationship to other kinds of reptiles ) . |
| 13 | The University has been fortunate in attracting high quality staff to fill new lectureship posts although there has been some difficulty in filling senior posts , particularly in business and management , which is an area of acute national shortage . |
| 14 | Although there has been some change in the distribution of wealth in Britain this century , this has largely taken place within the richest 10% . |
| 15 | Furthermore , we keep hearing about other conferences being planned in Paris and in Hannover , Panofsky 's home town , and then we heard there has been a proposal that the International Congress of the History of Art in Berlin ( 15–20 July ) should have a whole section devoted to Panofsky , ( although there has been some disagreement about this recently ) . |
| 16 | Although there has been some success in attempts to halt such ceremonies , or at least to make them less dangerous or humiliating , there is evidence that they are a perennial aspect of group behaviour unlikely to be eradicated . |
| 17 | Although there has been some improvement , comprehensive preparation for an adult life , which includes employment , is not readily available to all who might need it . |
| 18 | The acquisition of verb-phrase anaphora has not been investigated in previous research , although there has been some research into the acquisition of other cohesive devices such as conjunctions ( e.g. because ) and pronouns ( e.g. he/she ) . |
| 19 | Although there has been some ambiguity in previous research about the central-peripheral distinction , it is relatively clear in this case that central should refer to the information which is actually required for the task of driving , the remainder being peripheral . |
| 20 | This is similar to optical character recognition ( OCR ) which has concentrated mostly on machine-printed characters , although there has been some effort on handwriting as well . |
| 21 | Although there has been some fluctuation in private sector figures , this is nothing compared with the dramatic decline shown in the public sector figures . |
| 22 | Although there has been considerable support for a Teachers ' Council , the proposal has made little headway . |
| 23 | Few people find Anselm a serious contender for proving the existence of God , although there have been many philosophers who have rightly observed , as we have tried to do , that the logic of existence requires careful consideration . |
| 24 | As a result , any attempt to explicate the theme of the sequence is bound to run into peculiar difficulties , although there have been various attempts to interpret it in Christian , symbolist or political terms . |
| 25 | One disadvantage of the tokamak is that it has a pulsed discharge ( although there have been various suggestions as to how we might design a continuous tokamak ) while the stellarator and EBT are DC ( continuous ) toroidal configurations . |
| 26 | Although there have been other doctors in Britain who became deaf , Dr. Francis Maylett Smith remains only one of two deaf persons known to have successfully qualified as a doctor . |
| 27 | Although there have been recent price falls it should be remembered that in 1973 crude oil cost $2 a barrel . |
| 28 | Pollution largely ended the shellfish industry although there have been recent attempts to revive it . |
| 29 | However , although there have been tremendous developments in this field there remain many unanswered questions . |
| 30 | Although there have been mechanical breakdowns , they have merely affected the vehicles carrying the material . |