Example sentences of "although in " in BNC.

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1 The idea that a price at auction is a definitive market price has even become quite generally accepted , although in fact auctions are subject to manipulation like other markets described by some economists as free .
2 A deciduous or sombre evergreen hedge in a prominent position may look bleak in winter , although in summer they often enhance the brilliance of adjacent flowers .
3 Remember that , although in this country the impact of HIV and AIDS has up until now been mainly confined to homosexual men and injecting drug users , the infection can also be transmitted between men and women by unprotected sexual intercourse .
4 So although in a liberal democracy it would seem practical and even suitable for the police to have a say in the way order is defined and maintained , as Foucault ( 1970 ) and Douglas ( 1987 ) have shown , this will inevitably take on an expansionist line ; for anything other than bland support of the proposals of the institution will present a challenge or pose a threat .
5 7.2.1 At present , general practitioners are free to refer to the hospital and consultant of their choice , although in practice this freedom has been restricted in recent years , partly because of health authorities ' reluctance to accept cross-boundary patients .
6 Recent developments have seen the growth of such services closely linked with other locally-based care , although in many areas services are not adequate to need .
7 Although in some ways twentieth-century romantic ballets resemble those of the nineteenth century , they more often originate in a drama which supposedly takes place in the world of reality .
8 Although in theory Postscript could be viewed as a general purpose programming language , it is strongly biassed towards visual representation .
9 As for the case made against the versions in the Classic Anthology — that by using rhyme they align themselves with the closed poetry of print and not with the open poetry of the speaking breath — the obvious retort is that , although in these poems Pound often rhymes , he writes them in free verse , and in a free verse where the syllables are weighed , and the varying pace controlled , as scrupulously as in anything else he has written .
10 The Social Democrats who have ruled the Land for many years , although in opposition in Bonn , emerged strengthened by the CDU 's defeat , although their own share of the vote only grew by 0.4 per cent to reach 42.9 per cent .
11 That inexperience was to prove disastrous , although in the first two financial years there was a £12.5m profit .
12 He could not do it if he were not the landlord , although in general you can not , in the late twentieth century , expect high-minded landlords to do your planning for you .
13 Although in these circumstances the ethnographic method is the best way to obtain trust , it does not ensure it will be won from every respondent in the field .
14 The view of senior management is that policemen need to combine the qualities of compassion and toughness and know when each is appropri — ate ( FN 11/11/87 , pp. 7–8 ) , although in practice it is difficult to strike this fine balance .
15 In the RUC the former is known as community relations and the latter neighbourhood policing although in many other forces both go under the rubric of community policing .
16 There is also a formal element of crime detection , although in the normal course of events all they encounter is shoplifting and parking offences .
17 In April 1979 , on the eve of a British general election as it happened , Bishop Muzorewa 's United African Council received more than 60 per cent of the votes in a general election , and the Methodist Bishop became Prime Minister of ‘ Zimbabwe-Rhodesia ’ , although in the face of the opposition of the Nkomo/Mugabe forces .
18 The great obstacle , however , to a withering away of the state pension is the fact that , although in economic reality current pensions are paid from current contributions and other taxes , the state pension scheme has been institutionalised as a structure of vested rights or expectations stretching forward over half a century .
19 Promotion of the state-owned sector has generally gone hand in hand with promotion of the indigenous , i.e. African , private sector , although in ‘ socialist ’ countries the scope of the latter has sometimes been consciously restricted .
20 As a result of the limited increase in exports most governments will continue to experience serious balance of payments difficulties , although in some countries sometimes offset by earnings from minerals such as oil and diamonds .
21 If this process is done with a proper crimping tool there is very little chance of serious damage , although in this case it seemed by the damage done to the line that a normal pair of pliers had been used .
22 Although in all the three books considered there is some evolutionary scheme , when we take them together it is clear that Marx and Engels were very willing to modify the overall picture whenever they obtained new information .
23 They were a group of twelve , mainly Icelandic , but with two Norwegians and a Canadian , and now joined by an English cyclist who pretended , when convenient , to be Welsh , The intended route was up the south-west side of the Öræfajökull , the glacier being climbed during the night , although in June the sun only barely dips below the northern horizon at midnight .
24 It is high summer , although in the UK only the temperature of the rain would confirm summer rather than autumn to the blindfolded visitor .
25 In other words , the focus of Gironella 's attention is neither historically nor iconographically arbitrary , although in some ways his reworkings of the paintings of others could be seen to be simply an extension of a fairly conventional activity .
26 There were at Grunwick a group of exceptional women , women of great dignity and strength of personality like Jayaben Desai and Kalaben Patel who although in no sense ‘ westernised ’ had rejected traditional attitudes that women should be submissive and passive .
27 Although in law a female fiancée can enter Britain quite freely ( without an entry certificate ) she had been held up , questioned again and again , and late in the evening she had been given a sexual examination by officials who she thought might be doctors .
28 They were remarkable figures then , but almost 25 years on we beat them fairly handsomely , in a car which , although in a pretty healthy stage of tune ( probably around 350bhp ) , has nothing that any Cobra owner could n't have bought over the counter , and which is still perfectly useable on the road in small doses .
29 And yet that high broad forehead was his , the little tilted nose was his , his the pointed — although in her case , flat — ears , and in her huge eyes he saw his own little ones .
30 This is the main highway from Istanbul , which lies about 100 miles to the east , to the Greek border , some 100 miles to the west , and although in most parts it has a good tarmac surface it is in the main single carriageway .
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