Example sentences of "despite the fact that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find it strange that a new name is mentioned despite the fact that we 've just won two away games . |
| 2 | It 's up to Social Services , and Social Services may choose , although I have got to say it 's unlikely , to register a children 's or an elderly person 's home despite the fact that we 've given advice that they should n't . |
| 3 | Despite the fact that we do n't hear so much about AIDS these days the problems are increasing . |
| 4 | Oh sorry so that 's that 's what it 's what it 's about so what we want to do then over these next two days is to develop the skills of design and delivery and will allow us to do that allow us to improve our performance despite the fact that we do have the nerves and by practice by doing it by putting yourself in the situation where you have to make a presentation and almost as one chap said one time sitting there actually with your sitting there remembering he said actually volunteer to make presentations to the other people there . |
| 5 | This use of language marks a significant shift in emphasis from the post-war years when those in receipt of public services were regarded more as applicants and claimants than as consumers ( the same shift can be seen in London Regional Transport 's irritating habit of addressing its passengers as customers — despite the fact that we have no real choice and the quality of service has not altered in line with the changed mode of address ) . |
| 6 | I think this year it is interesting that , despite the fact that we have that major concern of the catchment area , we have stuck to our guns on the curriculum talks . |
| 7 | Labour claimed the result ‘ smashed ’ the Liberal Democrats in Wear Valley despite the fact that we gained further ground and Labour 's support fell back . |
| 8 | Again discontinuity of experience marks the lives of these children , despite the fact that they remain in their own homes all along . |
| 9 | The Government has failed to invest in the development of renewable energy sources — despite the fact that they avoid the pollution problems associated with coal , oil and gas . |
| 10 | Part of the reason for doing it is is we can actually say we did it , so we can tell people despite the fact that they get the programme . |
| 11 | Evidently such individuals can be said to exist , despite the fact that they lack the independence of ordinary things — they can not exist on their own . |
| 12 | It was a disastrous night for Andy Roxburgh 's men , despite the fact that they went in at half-time all square at 1-1 . |
| 13 | When late in 1972 Richard Leakey announced he had dug up the skull , thighbone , and parts of the lower leg of a human that were more than 2 ½ million years old , thus , if correct , disproving man 's direct descent from Australopithecus , many anthropologists seated in leather armchairs in universities not immediately adjacent to East Africa swiftly challenged Leakey 's conclusions , this despite the fact that they had not examined the bones in question , the strata in and near which they had been found , the animal bones found in the same strata , or indeed anything . |
| 14 | Despite the fact that they had been trying to kill each other , against the creature they were united . |
| 15 | Despite the fact that they had stopped their car , neither of the Shepherds seemed to care how she was , or whether she had done herself any harm sleep-walking up to the Monument . |
| 16 | Lacking more substantive arguments for voting Labour , Gaitskell promised an extravagant ‘ electioneering'-type budget if returned to office , a ploy which the Tory leaders were able to ridicule despite the fact that they had started that particular game . |
| 17 | George Hay ( 1987 ) has shown how this approach to antitrust survived into the post Second World War period with the adverse judgements in the Alcoa and United Shoe Machinery cases , where the companies concerned were condemned for ‘ monopolization ’ of their respective markets , despite the fact that they had only employed normal competitive means to acquire and maintain their dominant positions . |
| 18 | Trade figures , despite the fact that they show a sustained increase in the volume of exports , tell a particularly sad story of relative decline for a once dominant trading nation . |
| 19 | Following the signing of the Cessation Treaty between Charles and the Irish rebels in September 1643 , large numbers of Irish Catholics crossed to England to join Charles 's royalist army , despite the fact that they faced summary execution if captured by parliament . |
| 20 | Yet human parents generally stay together until their offspring are fully grown — and may even cohabit until the end of their lives despite the fact that they bear no more offspring together . |
| 21 | Solidarity with Southern nationalists is still a major Northern nationalist perception , despite the fact that they view their Southern compatriots at best with indifference and at worst as traitors who sold them out to the loyalists . |
| 22 | The second and for this thesis the more interesting suggestion is that in an otherwise normal driving situation a driver may report ‘ waking up ’ to find that they have no recollection of having driven some previous part of the journey , despite the fact that they completed relatively complex manoeuvres during the period . |
| 23 | This is despite the fact that they carry only a minority of the 13 stigmata of weediness . |
| 24 | Would any man in his senses invent a story of a bus crash in which 16,000 passengers were killed ? it is much more likely that these Old Testament numbers were faithfully copies out , despite the fact that they did not seem to make sense . |
| 25 | Thus despite the fact that they exhibit an increasing frustration with the novelistic discourse of the period , her first four novels did not succeed in significantly altering fictional convention . |
| 26 | First , a variety of offences are deemed arrestable despite the fact that they do not fit into this general rule . |
| 27 | The Government are dragooning their troops to push the Bill through the House despite the fact that they do not have the faintest idea how they or British Rail will pay for it . |
| 28 | Nuclear power and hydropower — controversial because of their adverse impacts on the environment despite the fact that they do not produce significant quantities of greenhouse gases — are also recommended as substitutes for fossil fuels . |
| 29 | Detainees are often subject to prison conditions despite the fact that they have not committed any crime . |
| 30 | Often these can provide extremely useful teaching material , despite the fact that they have been produced for the general public , rather than with a school 's audience in mind . |