Example sentences of "although [adv] [pron] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a much greater sense here of tolerating plurality and diversity than there was in the English departments , although obviously there is conflict amongst staff about the extent to which such plurality can be tolerated . |
| 2 | Not all child-beating amounts to deliberate cruelty ( although much which is pardoned has a suspicious streak in it ! ) and a parent may in some circumstances be excused for hitting out . |
| 3 | Cases of the latter type , where the adjective is used only to aid identification and does not actually apply to the entity of the phrase , closely resemble the great bulk of noun + noun phrases in their structural value , examples such as : ( 11 ) army manoeuvres the piano factory a sea monster an angle bracket However , even among noun + noun phrases , certain specimens occur which are clearly analogous to the former type ; as in : ( 12 ) a doctor journalist ( or doctor-journalist ) Chancellor Kohl a bed-settee These would permit an affirmative answer to our diagnostic test , although normally it is necessary to allow a little leeway in the shape of an added determiner to allow for this requirement of English : ( 13 ) Maurice is a journalist and he is also a doctor 2.3 It would be useful to have names for the two types of adjectival use , and there are fortunately two terms available which fall in the right semantic area and which have not been pre-empted for any other widely accepted technical linguistic purpose . |
| 4 | Further , there are sometimes delays in repairing the machine when it breaks down , although generally it is quite reliable . |
| 5 | The Hennessy winner , Ghofar , looks nicely treated off bottom weight , including a 4lb penalty , although technically he is still 5lb out of the handicap . |
| 6 | If this is so , then southern , one-party States with large black populations should be even lower welfare spenders than others where the electoral need to spend is weak , although statistically it is hard to separate out this effect because all of the extremely safe Democratic States are relatively poor , have large black populations and are in the South ( Johnston , 1983b ) . |
| 7 | This specification implies both homogeneity and homotheticity , although strictly there is no reason to impose either given that Courakis ( 1989 ) demonstrates that both only arise from particular forms of the investor 's underlying utility function . |
| 8 | One of the earliest detailed discussions of how the artefacts of the period might be dated was provided by Åberg ( 1926 , pp. 149–58 ) , although typically there is no consideration of what such chronology could be used for beyond using it to relate the archaeological data to an historical narrative : |
| 9 | As a teenager she had been frail and very light , and although now she is two stone heavier , and healthier for it , she still believes that young women should be thin , even skeletally so . |
| 10 | When returned to power in1988 , Jack Lang took some of the opposition 's criticism to heart and also switched his priorities to the heritage , especially the cathedrals and historic gardens , to restoration and to education , although today he is still attacked by the opposition for neglecting these fields . |
| 11 | Although today it is a longer hole and equipment has improved , it is not common to see the bushes carried from the tee but it is done . |
| 12 | Up he went to the ledge overlooking the Dress Circle , on which he was able to take a stance — although today it is usually ignored in the thrust of a runout towards the top . |
| 13 | The most common disguise is that of the jongleur or menestrel ( within the fabliau tales there is barely any discernible difference in status or respectability between these two although conventionally it is supposed that the former is lower than the latter ) : a disreputable itinerant entertainer living , creditably , off his wits and his talents , but only too vulnerable , and given to wasting what he gains on the temporary pleasures of drinking and gambling in the taverns ; a social outcast but at the same time one called upon by the members of normal society , as Jouglet is , both to instruct the ignorant young man and to play for the villagers . |
| 14 | In the schema aesthetic there is a parallel search for similarities although here it is between the incoming data and existing information already stored in memory . |
| 15 | Once again Day-Lewis manages almost chameleon-like to become subsumed by the part he is acting and although here it is basically one dimensional he persuades easily that this is his actual persona . |
| 16 | Some SSDs recognised the need for transition to independent living services , although unfortunately it is more common to expect the disabled person to find all the motivation within themselves . |
| 17 | The difficulty is that although sometimes it is possible to point to an intention to compel action on the part of the target , as when the aim is to prevent employees from working , or to force a local councillor to vote differently , or to stop another organisation from marching that intention is not invariably present . |
| 18 | By Elizabethan times it was familiar in every garden , and frequently referred to in records of the 13th and 14th centuries , although officially it is not supposed to have been introduced until 1573 . |
| 19 | ( Although theoretically it is easy to distinguish between a merger and a takeover , in practice it is less so and the words are generally used interchangeably . ) |
| 20 | Those at Rye Harbour and Northpoint Beach , Rye are extensive and largely undisturbed , although again there is strong pressure for recreational use ; that at Northpoint Beach is to be connected to the River Rother and used as a yacht basin . |
| 21 | Although again it is important to consider this question on an industry-by-industry basis . |
| 22 | Jean now works in the Design Studio making hand samples for special designs and development work , although occasionally she is still called upon to ‘ colour count ’ . |