Example sentences of "although it be [adv] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ryarsh also makes non-standard special shapes , although it is most economic to select from the extensive range of standard specials . |
| 2 | Although it is most usual to think of salami as an Italian speciality , they are , in fact , made throughout Europe . |
| 3 | Although it is theoretically possible to catch scabies by sleeping in a bed previously occupied by a sufferer from scabies , the chances are extremely remote . |
| 4 | ( As specified in Chapter 1 , we shall normally use assign to mean assign the relation of qualification , although it is also possible to assign the relation of equation . ) |
| 5 | Although it is plainly easier to examine the narrower conception of the media 's political impact by exploring specific case studies , long-term and fundamental changes in the public 's perceptions of the political world must not be overlooked . |
| 6 | Although it is already fashionable to explain away the scale of the election successes — by such factors as the Falklands , Foot , Benn , and an inept Labour campaign in 1983 , and prosperity and the disproportional electoral system in 1987 — the results marked a further stage in the decline of the Labour party . |
| 7 | The distinction between the two concepts , the commission of a crime and the production of a literary work , is a vital one , for although it is clearly desirable to deter crimes , it is not transparently obvious that we should seek to deter the production of literary works , whatever we may think of their intrinsic merits . |
| 8 | The same applies if the dog takes other things such as slippers which it is not supposed to have , although it is equally important to replace them out of reach for the future . |
| 9 | HIRE AUTHORITY Although it is undeniably preferable to have your own well-made dinner suit , hiring is nevertheless an increasingly viable alternative . |
| 10 | Street lighting and roads are another example , for although it is physically possible to exclude users unless they pay a charge , it is prohibitively expensive to do so , except for roads in great demand like motorways and major bridges . |
| 11 | The civil disorders and dynastic feuds between Lancaster and York presumably led to some destruction of wealth , although it is virtually impossible to judge how much . |
| 12 | Although it is too early to assess the full effects , some of the rich shellfish and oyster beds offshore are thought to be in some danger . |
| 13 | Although it is too early to say what impact it will have on the discipline , it has stimulated a powerful line of thought , and one which will concern us in later chapters . |
| 14 | Although it is too fanciful to believe that the later Last Tango in Paris could have been influenced by John and Mary , there are nonetheless similarities between the two seemingly worlds-apart movies . |
| 15 | Although it is sometimes useful to engage in hierarchical browsing , this is essentially subsidiary to the direct keyword approach . |
| 16 | Although it is sometimes difficult to decide how an objective can be measured , an obvious objective can be cited in terms of increased sales , although it is sometimes difficult to determine whether such an increase in sales was due to PR activity or to some other marketing activity . |
| 17 | Although it is sometimes difficult to decide how an objective can be measured , an obvious objective can be cited in terms of increased sales , although it is sometimes difficult to determine whether such an increase in sales was due to PR activity or to some other marketing activity . |
| 18 | Although it is only necessary to show an element of bounty to come within these provisions now , this case is important and taxpayers should bear it in mind when they are carrying out any reorganisation of share capital . |
| 19 | She listed 56 ( see page 111 ) , although it is only fair to record that the 56th read : " Have nervous breakdown — client does n't like film . " |
| 20 | Warehouses with more than 20 stacker-cranes are not unknown although it is more usual to find systems with 2 to 6 cranes . |
| 21 | Although it is more usual to think of it as a place of rest , a great deal of work is performed within the household . |
| 22 | The surface construction which realizes ( 21 ) is that seen in ( 22 ) , although it is more common to find the serial order of the second and third elements reversed ; this does not change their relationships in terms of intensional qualification : ( 22 ) It is curious that the verb and the adjective are so often separated in surface structure ; the reason is perhaps that the noun phrase object is " pulled " into the position immediately following the verb because , in the vast majority of transitive verb phrases , that is where the object is found . |
| 23 | Although it is now possible to use a system of notation , choreographers still prefer to create directly on the human material , working on it and relying on the dancers ' own memories to repeat what has been designed on and for them . |
| 24 | Although it is very difficult to analyse soil systems quantitatively using this approach , a number of attempts have been made to solve the state factor equations and these have been reviewed by Yaalon ( 1975 ) . |
| 25 | Although it is obviously accurate to call an incipient spin a stall with a wing-drop , I think that this is trying to avoid the issue , which is that it is really the beginning of a spin and at least a potential spin . |
| 26 | Although it is certainly necessary to protect ethnic minorities from verbal attack , and to signal society 's disapproval of all forms of racial abuse , it does not follow that criminalization is always the best method of doing this . |
| 27 | Although it is certainly tempting to use reformulations of this kind as evidence that [ VSQ ] and [ QSV ] are variants of an underlying variable , used by speakers in spoken discourse much like successive realizations of pit as [ p ? ] and [ p ? t ] when the first realization is not heard clearly , such evidence can not consistently be relied upon without further qualification to define a set of syntactic variants . |
| 28 | Although it is actually possible to regress a patient to babyhood and even to the mother 's womb , I felt that perhaps in Maxine 's case we should try past-life regression ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 29 | The test may be used as a screening device , although it is relatively time-consuming to administer compared with other tests . |
| 30 | Although it is relatively easy to decide how the intensity of sexual selection should be estimated , collecting the relevant data poses a variety of logistic problems ( Ralls , 1977 ; Davies , 1982 ) . |