Example sentences of "and although [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Report began by identifying some 130,000 part-time teachers in further and adult education who were at that time employed by local authorities and although nobody knows how many are employed over the country as a whole at present , even after the severe reductions of recent years they are likely to number more than 100,000 . |
| 2 | ‘ Those who took part in the sessions found it enjoyable and good fun , ’ commented Andrew , ‘ and although everyone has not yet managed to pack it in , the early feedback is encouraging . ’ |
| 3 | And although he does reserve his party pieces for his formidable long-range free kicks , most of those were off target apart from one effort which hit a post late on . |
| 4 | And although he co-produces with Michaela Strachen , she is clearly positioned as his — she 's the bimbo who goes along and enthuses about the dancers , whereas he knows where it 's at musically , because he is , after all , a famous producer — he is the man with the knowledge . |
| 5 | His aim is to make ACT number one supplier for the international finance sector , and although he admits he could n't have said such a thing three years ago without being laughed at , he now feels confident that it is a realisable goal . |
| 6 | The sight of them would be enough to give designers of air balls , gels and energy return systems the jitters , and although he has never measured his mileage , he estimated he had run at least 25,000 miles in them , and possibly more ! |
| 7 | And although he has seen some strange sights down the Big Apple 's drains , the real-life Mario has never had to fight off fire-breathing dragons or deadly piranha flowers . |
| 8 | He 's a great leader and although he has done so much , he still has a great future in front of him . ’ |
| 9 | He is from Madrid , and although he has lived among us for many years now , he still thinks like a madrileño sometimes . ’ |
| 10 | Too often Kendall seems preoccupied with finding a place in the team for Alan Harper , and although he has been a great servant to the club over the years , Everton will only be a really good side when he is playing in the reserves , and I do not mean that as an insult to Alan . |
| 11 | In these lines , Brutus is saying that the only way to stop Caesar becoming emperor is to kill him , and although he has no personal grievances against Caesar ( Caesar is kind to him and favours him ) , it would be bad for the people of Rome ( ‘ the general ’ ) if he were to be crowned . |
| 12 | He is such a lucid writer — and although he defends himself ably against the charge of superficiality ( which has been levelled since I was a student ) the breadth of his scholarship is so immense that the defence seems unnecessary . |
| 13 | He 's got a crooked back , you see , and although he 's always been rich , he was never really happy until he married . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But I have had a child , and although he 's gone , that love , that joy will stay with me forever . |
| 15 | Edward Ellice , an MP for Coventry , said that he had been asked to accompany his friend Lord Elcho , and although he seems to have been a political ally of Elcho 's his view of Scott 's design was very different . |
| 16 | And although she does consult with colleagues , advisory committees and city councillors , according to her critics , Dr Fohrbeck fails to present her projects in such a way as to find much-needed allies on the city council . |
| 17 | And although she seems to disagree with its overall drift , she tells me she 's in complete accord with my views on what she called my ‘ blasted reconstruction ’ . ’ |
| 18 | There she quickly settled into school life and although she claims to have been ‘ very shy ’ made lots of friends and impressed the staff with her helpfulness and charm . |
| 19 | She is uninterested in fame ; she may attract it , however , and although she finds it annoying , she can turn it to good account for the work she is doing . |
| 20 | She has been good to me and although she knows there is something wrong and maybe suspects there is something I have not told her about she gives nothing away . |
| 21 | The possessed woman , like her bewitched counterpart , becomes the immediate centre of attention and care , and although she exerts pressure upon her spouse the latter is not assailed as radically as he would be were he accused of being a witch . |
| 22 | Problems abound in measuring income distribution and although there has been a reversal in equality trends since the mid-1970s , middle-class identity in Japan is more closely related to earning middling incomes than attachment to class specific values . |
| 23 | And although there has been a great deal of argument as to the cause , very few people would deny that Britain is in a state of decline . ’ |
| 24 | Less is known however about the impact of second homes on the local environment , and although there has been a good deal of speculation about their impacts , as shown in Table 7.5 , there are few hard or agreed empirical data to back this up . |
| 25 | Many claims are received in respect of cigarette burns to furniture , carpets etc. and although there has been no actual ‘ fire ’ , it is generally accepted that such claims can be considered as fire damage . |
| 26 | And although it takes a while to recover from such fear , for most of us at least , it does eventually subside . |
| 27 | Grass has been the main diet for horses since the horse evolved and although it varies in nutritional quality throughout the year it does provide a balanced diet for most animals who are not working or breeding . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 29 | The mill was operated by Alfred Greening between 1889 and 1900 , and although it does not appear in references after this , it was certainly operated in conjunction with the farm . |
| 30 | Fingerboard shrinkage on new instruments has two possible causes — excessively dry storage or shipping conditions , or the use of hastily-seasoned fingerboard blanks — and although it does n't affect the SJ-20's playability in any way , it might be enough to make me put this particular guitar aside and buy a different example of the same model . |