Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] although it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It 's sort of grid iron pattern streets on the south side of the High Street ; on the north side that 's all disrupted by the castle and , as far as one can tell , when the town and the area around it , the Rape of Lewes , was ceded to William De Warren , most of the local powers of the Town Council such as it was were taken away and subverted and the town became a minorial borough and although it sent Members of Parliament to Westminster from the end of the thirteenth century , it only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation , because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms .
2 Sadly Mr 's proposal fell on a technicality , but I think he put his finger on something which I felt the assembly was , was responding to , that we are not finished with this issue and although it fell on a technicality about money , perhaps without making any addendums and motions we might er refuse this addendum and keep our minds on the baptism issue and hope that the Board of Practice and Procedure and the panel on doctrine will pick up the substance and the , the essence of what Mr was asking for and pursue this matter until as a church we can get it sorted out to the satisfaction of all the groups within the church .
3 They were seen to be working in the same direction and although it has not yet been possible to gauge the extent to which they help in the task of managing new education , their contribution to quality assurance should , by tradition , be valuable .
4 The library reference room was on the Fludyer Street side of the building and although it housed some to the 5,000 volumes in the manuscript library , some had to be distributed throughout the passages of the building .
5 One box in Lincolnshire had the manifestations of a poltergeist or mischievous ghost apparent in the building but it was of a gentle nature and although it moved cups of tea and generally showed its mischievous attributes , it never hurt anybody and was not vicious or dangerous .
6 ‘ We still have nearly 200 young people undergoing training on this site and although it continues to be less than in earlier years , because the business scene has changed , our overall commitment to training and development certainly has not . ’
7 Although it is an intense period of development and although it provides the basis of values , attitudes , and feelings — as well as darker things like repressions and obsessions — that may last a lifetime , it soon passes .
8 The success of the one-off rally prolonged the life of the movement and although it kept its basically evangelical outlook for a couple of years , Roy Wallis suggests that the likes of Peter Hill began to be replaced by a leadership that was ‘ more directly concerned with the civic-political aspects of moral reform , rather than with evangelism . ’
9 Well , we thought he 'd gone out , but apparently he must have got to the door just as the bomb landed , and the blast blew the door backwards , er the door inwards , knocked me dad backwards and at the back of him we had a cellar , but it went through this , the cellar door and although it turned round before it went down the cellar , he finished up down there because we did n't know this til after a while that me brother wou did n't offer to go out , so I went out think , to find where me dad was you see .
10 The tremolo is especially worthy of note : it is extremely smooth in operation and although it detuned slightly when used in real anger , it settled in more each time I played it .
11 This time , however , she came by low loader rather than under her own steam and although it had been laid most expertly by BR staff , the track she was unloaded onto was several hundred yards from the nearest railway line .
12 A Coastguard spokesman said : ‘ This event takes place every year but although it appears to be well organised , neither the lifeboats nor the beach patrol in Wirral are officially informed .
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