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

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1 Although it may blunt some of the sharpness of the terms , we might map their literary specificity against terms traditional to film and television analysis such as ‘ style ’ ( or ‘ mise-en-scene ’ ) , ‘ narrative structure ’ , and theme .
2 Studies such as these show that the workplace , although it may present relatively few opportunities for ‘ escape ’ is also a context within which personal identity and social esteem are formed .
3 The issue of equities , although it may improve the creditworthiness of the company , will also reduce the gearing ( leverage ) in its financing mix and also reduce the tax-shield effect of interest payments due to debt holders , thus lowering the potential rate of return to the owners .
4 The mechanisms whereby smoking influences ulcer healing are unknown ; it probably does not affect gastric acidity , although it may alter duodenal motility and acidity .
5 The client will often be promising less than it hopes to be able to deliver : although it may exclude liability for defects in goods , the client will generally seek to deliver goods free from defects , in order to establish or maintain its commercial reputation and protect its trading relationships .
6 However , this is not necessary and innocence is not an absolute defence although it may influence the decision or the remedies granted .
7 Cabomba ( Cabomba Caroliniana ) In the aquarium Cabomba can reach 24″ in height , although it may double this in the wild .
8 Although it may hold back for reasons of cost and supply , and because the housing market is static , during this decade I believe we will see an increasing spread of relocation moves to those parts of the country which offer a better quality of life than London and the South-East . ’
9 He continues : ‘ Some of the best work for Vogue , although it may bear my signature , is in fact ours , the result of a special and close collaboration . ’
10 He continues : ‘ Some of the best work for Vogue , although it may bear my signature , is in fact ours , the result of a special and close collaboration . ’
11 Software of any kind needs carefully structured into the curriculum and not merely used interlude in the learning process to relieve boredom and offer variety although it may do this as well .
12 This ability is independent of idiosyncratic beliefs , feelings and usages ( although it may refer to those shared by participants ) , and is based for the most part on quite regular and relatively abstract principles Pragmatics can be taken to be the description of this ability , as it operates both for particular languages and language in general .
13 Although it may appear otherwise , such behaviour requires no conscious decision making by the ant .
14 Although it may appear like a demutualisation , it is not .
15 That comes from the se , the seabed churning it up but the sea is never still , it 's tossing and in , as the movement there underneath , although it may appear calm on the surface , but there are times when it 's not calm on the surface , it 's as rough on top as it is underneath .
16 Legal advice and assistance on child care matters is available under the green form scheme but can not extend to representation in court although it may cover the cost of a solicitor attending court with a client as an advisor ( Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989 , reg 21 ) .
17 Thus , Russell argues , although it may make good empirical sense to say that a " complete complex of compresence ( a given " particular " can not be " to the north of itself " , " above itself " , etc. , these situations can not be excluded on a priori grounds .
18 If you can stand the pace and the heat , Bangkok is a very rewarding place to visit , although it may make you feel like taking a week afterwards to lie on a beach and recover .
19 As the calf grows older the bond with the mother weakens , although it may last 2 or 3 years .
20 Analysis of Brian 's nursing history does not show a structured approach of this nature ; such support was provided as the need for it was noticed by individual staff members , which is theoretically unsatisfying , although it may have worked in practice .
21 I think they were all impressed , although it may have been at the thought of Gran going camping !
22 Although it may have mishandled some details , such as last week 's round of Arab-Israeli talks ( see page 65 ) , its big decisions — to bring its troops swiftly home , to maintain the siege around Iraq , to establish a haven for Iraqi Kurds and to push Israel and the Arabs into long-overdue negotiation — have mostly been right .
23 On the other hand , GH5 is a eukaryotic protein that binds as a monomer , is not sequence-specific ( although it may have sequence preferences ) , and the structure of the DNA on binding to GH5 is unknown .
24 What is less widely known is that at this moment two P-38 Lightnings , ( distinctive , long-range US fighters ) appeared , their star insignia clearly visible , and although it may have been coincidence even to the sophisticated in a crowd of some hundreds of thousands it must indeed have appeared that the mandate of heaven had assumed its newest form .
25 Although it may have also been one of the last , desperate attempts to keep the road open to a negotiated settlement , Ho was being accused by the French , who compared the diplomatic assurances in Paris with continuing violence in Vietnam , of duplicity ; and , ominously , by the intransigents in Hanoi , of treachery .
26 Again , however , one wonders how far this was mere rhetoric in the original or mere gesture in the repetition ; although it may have some influence on the ‘ mission statements ’ that some institutions are now struggling to formulate .
27 Record 4 has no shared descriptors with the other three records , although it may have with later records .
28 In consolidating data from several areas it has been proposed that a rapid rise of sea level occurred in the early Holocene but that in the last 6000 years the rate has been far less , although it may have diminished progressively , it may have risen to c .
29 The professional debate needs to take place on different ground and the professional service , although it may have buildings among its outputs , will have to have deep human and social insights among its inputs .
30 Britain finally became cut off from the Continent at the Straits of Dover around 6500 BC , although it may have been somewhat later between East Anglia and northern Europe via the Dogger Bank .
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