Example sentences of "and although it was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What The Stones and The Animals and all the great bands that I grew up with did was to take black music , and although it was played by white kids , they did n't change the nature of the beast , and it worked . |
| 2 | I complained and although it was stopped I still got my books later . |
| 3 | A substantial army marched on London , and although it was defeated and the leaders were put to death , to do so the King had to divert the force which was being prepared for the campaign in Scotland ( 73 , pp. 14–16 ) . |
| 4 | And I beheld that they called that ‘ Beating the time ’ and although it was beaten , most forcibly , the musicians were never together . |
| 5 | The party 's most important electoral commitment was the creation of 800,000 jobs over four years , and although it was to fall lamentably short of the aim , the reduction of unemployment remained an important point of reference for the party in power and for its political allies ( see , e.g. , PSOE 1983 : 43–4 ) . |
| 6 | It was a manifesto for change , and although it was given greater publicity by the Tories and the local press than by the Labour Party , it was with this manifesto that Labour increased its majority in Haringey . |
| 7 | Two years later , after a command performance at Windsor Castle , he disbanded it , and although it was resuscitated at public request , and attracted stars like ( Sir ) Charles Santley [ q.v. ] , it finally expired in 1887 . |
| 8 | He was in good shape and in good heart , and although it was known that he did not run up to his best at Cheltenham , the conditions would suit him much more than those of a year ago and few opposed him . |
| 9 | This came to an end during the Seven Years War ; and although it was refounded in 1775 it seems to have been designed merely to produce men capable of filling such relatively minor posts as those at Warsaw and The Hague , where it was not necessary for the Prussian representative to be of high social rank . |
| 10 | But the phone WAS cut off — and although it was reconnected , Mr Bedi claimed his five days without a line cost him £5,000 . |
| 11 | Much of the indebtedness of these middle-income countries arose through borrowings in private sector capital markets , mainly the euro-currency markets , and although it was feared that the banks involved were seriously at risk it is becoming clear that rescheduling of debt by the banks with the debtor countries has been possible . |
| 12 | The Rent and Mortgage Restriction Act , 1915 , fixed rents at the levels obtaining in 1914 , and although it was introduced as a wartime emergency measure , it became politically impossible to repeal after hostilities ceased . |