Example sentences of "and although it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 And although it takes a while to recover from such fear , for most of us at least , it does eventually subside .
2 The nadir was reached when the Royal 600cc class went out with only 10 starters and although it developed into a tremendous race between Joey Dunlop and Ian King , there was n't the strength in depth which we have come to take for granted .
3 Things remained thus for nearly 80 years , and although it became generally recognised that the genus needed to be split-up into several smaller ones , the amount of work required was such as to make the task an almost-impossible proposition , at least for a single revision .
4 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 . ’
5 Actually I was so anxious to have him that I would have said anything — but I did put my marriage first , I made that choice , and although it meant I had many , many years of frustration as an actress , I 'm not sorry I made that choice .
6 She moved quickly to examine the long narrow table that had forms on either side , and although it looked clean enough she was not happy until she had washed it .
7 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 .
8 We continued fishing and although it went quiet for me Rick did have another two cats at 17lb 12oz and 12lb 8oz , but both seemed a little insignificant in the light of previous events .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Although this is in principle one of the simplest configurations and although it played such an important role in the early history of transition studies , the details of the transition process turn out to be relatively complex and are , quite possibly , not all known .
13 ‘ 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 . ’
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 It was now about 2157 , and although it had taken just three minutes to use Conquest for the rescue , the transfer to the small boat and handling her while picking up the survivor had required seamanship of a high order .
17 At the back of the platform was a fence , and although it had apparently been painted white in the early 1900's , in later years the paint had peeled off and bushes had grown up on the cutting side to provide a new backdrop to the isolated platform beside the overgrown railway .
18 It was potentially extremely dangerous and although it had survived since the war it may have been very unstable .
19 Although the Chicago School over-used the Darwinian metaphor of the struggle for survival , and although it made the mistake of equating ‘ society ’ or ‘ community ’ with the social systems of relatively small areas , the Chicago School still has much to offer in terms of the new kind of spatial sociology which we started to develop in Chapter 1 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 And although it does n't let your daughter 's father off the hook , it does n't let you off either .
23 There are 230 pupils at the High Green school , founded by Quakers in 1841 , and although it does not enter competitive festivals , several of its musically-gifted pupils have gone on to bigger and better things with more than a little help from Mr Essex .
24 And although it accepted that on the whole the department did all it could to control him , on the day he assaulted a 70-year-old woman the court ruled that he had n't been properly supervised , and ordered the council to pay 700 pounds in compensation .
25 I fixed a poor nut in a flared pocket , and although it seemed unlikely to hold , attached a sling and stood in it .
26 The London Industrial Strategy ( Greater London Council , 1985 ) highlights some of these problems , and although it argues for a positive role for local authorities , in the end it concludes that national help and assistance will be necessary in order to have any major impact .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 And although it appeared he used his arm to do so , Russian referee Alexei Spirin ignored the appeals for a penalty .
30 This , Burton 's fourth scheme , proposed a block housing the Foreign and Colonial Offices immediately to the west of the existing houses in Downing Street , and although it did not involve buying any more land , it necessitated building on the park .
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