Example sentences of "although it [vb -s] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be the extreme consequence of a health service which , although it insists that it puts patients first , often does n't do so at all . |
| 2 | Re-assessment of the product choices confirms the requirement although it emerges that the surface material of the machine washed items is frequently aluminium so a non caustic machine detergent is specified . |
| 3 | ‘ This financial posture is necessary due to IBM 's weak performance in recent years , ’ it said , adding that IBM 's favourable operations and restructuring efforts should return it to profitability in 1994 , although it warns that a ‘ failure to move toward a reasonable level of profitability in 1994 ’ would result in a further downgrading . |
| 4 | Even the Symbolist view ( which held sway in Russia in the first years of the century ) that ‘ art is thinking in images ’ can not be admitted , because although it acknowledges that thought in art takes a different form from conventional philosophy , it will in the end lead the study of art beyond art itself to forms of knowing and feeling , to epistemology and psychology . |
| 5 | Thus it is clear that ( a ) affirms the footballer ; ( b ) also affirms the footballer because the speaker has made it clear that it is a personal reaction of liking or disliking which has nothing to do with appreciation of football 's being a good game ; ( c ) is affirming also because although criticism of the game is stated , its positive value comes first , and in any case the keen footballer is likely to be the first to agree that the level of enjoyment varies according to different games of football ; ( d ) however veers towards dismissal of football and therefore dismissal of what is meaningful to the footballer , because although it acknowledges that sometimes it is a good game the emphasis is on the negative side ; ( e ) is not affirming because even though the hurt to the footballer is cushioned by making it clear that this is a personal opinion , a very negative judgement is in fact articulated ; ( f ) has the straight effect of dismissing the footballer as well as football because it implies that anyone who spends time on football is stupid . |
| 6 | It supports the principle of increasing energy prices so that consumers pay the full environmental cost of the resources they use , although it acknowledges that increases would have to be phased in over time , preferably in line with international agreements . |
| 7 | Friends of the Earth in particular has strongly criticized English Nature for entering into the agreement , although it acknowledges that , since Fisons has extractions rights which pre-date existing conservation laws , the company can not be compelled to stop work . |
| 8 | The document produces a revenue account with standard headings which it expects will be adopted by most divisions of service , although it recognizes that the detail heads adopted by a particular division will be different . |
| 9 | The Conservative government , which seeks to reverse this trend , blames the decline on over-regulation and rent controls , although it allows that the relative attractiveness of owner-occupation has been a contributory factor . |
| 10 | The review proposes a national insurance contribution ‘ holiday ’ to employers who recruit the long-term unemployed , although it admits that the Treasury would probably veto the plan . |
| 11 | However , EPHOS is not expected to impinge upon the UK 's own GOSIP profile , ‘ EPHOS is at a higher level , ’ according to the UK 's Central Computing and Telecommunications Agency , although it admits that ‘ they may merge in the future , but we 're talking about four or five years . ’ |
| 12 | Although it emphasises that the opportunities are not guaranteed to find success , market-orientated businesses should find them worth considering . |
| 13 | Hodson-Smith has sent papers detailing his fears to the three stations involved and Nuclear Electric is studying them , although it emphasises that the software has not yet been fully integrated into the control system for the reactors . |
| 14 | Although it seems that the South is recovering its appetite for fresh fish , with restaurants buying about 30 per cent of the fish sold in the area , there is no doubt that there has been a positive nosedive in the demand for fresh fish in Britain as whole . |
| 15 | Although it seems that the luminosity of the centre can be provided by the central star cluster , there remain compelling reasons for searching for a possibly dormant massive black hole . |
| 16 | No one knows just what causes stammering , although it seems that there may be a genetic link . |
| 17 | Private Acts of Parliament could be used to overcome opposition ; 472 between 1770 and 1779 , 2000 in all ( Darby 1973b ) , although it seems that more land was enclosed in the seventeenth than in the eighteenth century . |
| 18 | He had been too rushed and busy in Rome to enjoy his stay there , although it seems that the American writer , Frederic Prokosch , persuaded him to go on a pilgrimage one afternoon to find the legendary " Golden Bough " on the shores of Lake Nemi ; what they found was an old and dilapidated oak . |
| 19 | Like Caton , Berger attempted to record electrical responses to sensory stimuli in animals , although it seems that the work he did between 1902 and 1910 was , in general , unsuccessful . |
| 20 | In September 1987 an official of West L.B. , Paul Kiang , was arrested although it seems that he was not actually charged until June 1988 . |
| 21 | Nothing is known of Freeth 's education or his early years , although it seems that he was once an itinerant street ballad-singer . |
| 22 | Children could leave school entirely at thirteen on possession of the ‘ labour certificate ’ , which required either a minimum attendance record or the passing of Standard VII , although it seems that the certificate was rarely if ever refused and 10 per cent of 10–15-year-old girls were fully employed as late as 1911 . |
| 23 | What the case does not make clear is how ISS made its profit , although it seems that Philips retained some control over the prices charged by ISS ( see point 14 of the judgement ) . |
| 24 | Although it accepts that a carbon tax would provide some incentive to conserve energy and invest in renewables , the Commission has proposed the revised ALTENER programme in order to stimulate demand for renewable energy , at a proposed budget of ECU 40 million for its five-year span starting January 1993 . |
| 25 | Although it appears that she reached a peace with her father , she found herself constrained within that relationship ; she portrays several fathers who are sympathetic , and one especially who is repugnant . |
| 26 | Evelyn Goldsmith ( 1984 , p.407 ) comments that ‘ Although it appears that some six year olds can understand conventional devices such as speed lines for depicting movement , the most reliable cue is posture , as when people or animals are shown with their limbs in active positions , . |
| 27 | Although it appears that sentencing became more severe during the first three years the guide-lines were in use , Minnesota remains one of the very few states that has avoided huge increases in prison population size ( Parent 1988 ) . |
| 28 | Both schools of thought defined here , then , would claim to have as their central focus the child 's welfare , although it appears that the ‘ society-as-parent ’ school more often uses this phrase or phrases like it , while the other group tends to talk about the family . |
| 29 | He also involved a religious foundation — the Charterhouse — in his scheme ( although it appears that in practice it played little part ) and wanted his Master to be a Scholar of Eton or of Winchester ( if such could be found ) and to be appointed on the recommendation of the Provosts of Eton College and of King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 30 | On 7 May the applicant was admitted to bail , and so far as we are aware has been at liberty ever since , although it appears that he has appeared on a number of occasions at the Guildhall Magistrates ' Court , to what effect we do not know . |