Example sentences of "although [pron] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Colin Stephens did not quite convince that he was the Messiah in waiting at flyhalf although his coolly taken first-half drop goal showed that he can perform under pressure .
2 Their troubled relationship with Prost notwithstanding , Honda 's successful assault on the bastions of Formula One is admirably chronicled by Christopher Hilton in Conquest of Formula One , although his somewhat hectoring style makes the first few pages something of a battle .
3 My astonishment in coming here is to see these later pictures of his , although I always associate Basil with being a very competent , sensitive , and a typical Euston Road type of painter , I do think his association with the North seems to have done something incredible , and these later water colours , with their tremendous feeling for " wind and Yorkshire weather " seem to have given him an absolutely different and much more mature outlook .
4 Well , we 've done that , as we said we would and of course , in a business such as Pearson , which is a people business er , although we regularly monitor employment statistics , such as total employ total number of employees er , revenue per employee , cost per employee , profit per employee , there are times when we have to take er , difficult decisions and er , so we 've gone in for a lot of redundancy , which we 'll see in , in er during the next slide or two .
5 Although we usually serve cheese with red wine , a well-flavoured cheese , such as Lancashire , is excellent with a rich , sweet white such as Sauternes or Muscat de Beaumes de Venise .
6 And er a although we usually associate language identity with minority groups , linked with minority groups er it 's quite important that we do n't erm dismiss the prominence it has in majority groups as well .
7 ‘ The British mandate censor , a Jewish man called Arieh Siev — a nice fellow although we never saw eye-to-eye — refused to let us print .
8 It was then time to dig over the kitchen garden , although we now had help .
9 The last two are different from the first five visual elements in that , although they also convey information , they are not part of the interaction in the same way .
10 Today , in the country , you are more than likely to see women still washing in this way , although they now use lixivia ( bleach ) , sold in bright plastic bottles which , empty and discarded , can often be seen in a river bed or floating out to sea .
11 It is difficult for her and others to grapple with the fact that , although they often oppose racism on behalf of Asian communities , they find themselves unable to control and dictate the forms that anti-racism takes .
12 using toluidine blue-stained tissue also failed to find aluminium or silicon in the plaque cores , despite using a technique ( laser microprobe mass analysis ) capable of parts-per-million sensitivity , although they consistently find aluminium in neurofibrillary tangles using this technique .
13 The study 's starting point was a UN forecast that the world 's population will reach around 11.5 billion by the end of the next century , although it also took account of upper forecasts which suggest figures of 12.5 billion by 2050 and 28 billion by 2150 .
14 The offence of incest prohibits certain sexual relations within the family , thus providing a distinct label for some forms of child sexual abuse by parents and grandparents , although it also covers brother — sister relationships .
15 Although it still contains air , it can no longer support the weight of the car .
16 It is hard work for most amateurs , using unaccustomed muscles , to double dig a whole plot , and although it undoubtedly improves fertility , the effort and perspiration always feels more justified when you understand why you are expending it — so here is the explanation .
17 Although he later affected contempt for the poor , Walters had grown up the son of a working-class Leicestershire Communist .
18 I am lecturing all over the place , ’ explained the explorer.However , although he also finds time for lectures to raise money for good causes , like his visit to Snape , Sir Ranulph is a notoriously private celebrity.He rarely gives interviews , and does not keep hand-out photographs of himself .
19 In his Life of Hooker Walton states that in the original lost manuscripts there was no mention of kings being accountable to the people ; and he relates how Charles I , in a discussion with the Parliamentary leader Lord Saye , refused to accept any arguments based on the last three books , because it was doubtful whether they were authentic , although he gladly accepted Hooker 's judgements in the first five .
20 He has again been selected to represent his country at this September 's World Championships , again to be held in Ibiza , although he desperately needs sponsorship to repeat his feats of last season .
21 Then , although he sometimes has trouble walking and talking even on dry land , he seems to levitate about three inches off the ground .
22 Nazmu Virani , although he never drinks alcohol , links his best deal to a brewery .
23 The family was clearly influential , perhaps having been helped by his brother who was archbishop of Canterbury , and a third brother was an alderman , although he never became mayor .
24 But perhaps the best measure of Paul 's ability was that , although he never sought publicity or acclaim , he was voted Palace 's Player of Year for two consecutive seasons , both of which were spent in Division One , in 1979–80 and 1980–81 .
25 Although he often uses occupation and length of time in educational institutions as the axes for his displays and charts , in the text he attempts to encompass a far greater range of differences based on gender , age and expectation .
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