Example sentences of "[conj] despite all [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Greek tragedy , like all true tragedy , leaves its audience with the feeling that despite all superficial changes , " life is at bottom indestructibly joyful and powerful " . |
2 | It 's interesting that despite all that 's been said about migration and I 'll come back to it , but we actually start , the county and ourselves , from the same point , more or less , within about four four dwelling I think . |
3 | Should you find that despite all this you do occasionally eat too much , try to take extra exercise , the occasional long walk at least , to work it off . |
4 | It 's truly gratifying to see that despite all this talk of reorganisation Big Blue is still willing to eat its own children . |
5 | If despite all this , you still want one , accommodation should be your first concern , so we 'll start with basics . |
6 | We want them to be light and compact , yet robust , stable and reliable ; simple to operate , yet capable of reasonably fine heat control ; economical with fuel , yet able to bring pans to the boil quickly ; and despite all these conflicting demands , they must be safe to use in difficult field conditions . |
7 | The ultimate outcome of this is , that without any exception whatsoever and despite all so-called ‘ revelation ’ , all religious writings have been produced entirely by man himself countless millenniums after the advent of life on earth . |
8 | But despite all that , there is a great stolidity ; there is a great security-cum-fairly rigid structure supporting the Civil Service — and necessarily so . |
9 | But despite all this I had a successful Championship , winning the 100 metres and tying , in an exciting race , with John Regis in the 200 . |
10 | But despite all this , Paul presses through by continuing the course of action . |
11 | But despite all this , Haig never deviated from his original plan to renew the offensive at the earliest favourable moment . |
12 | But despite all this the power station may not go ahead . |
13 | But despite all these obvious assets , Morocco 's countryside is still unspoilt by mass tourism . |
14 | His arguments have something of the character of the Ptolemaic theory of the universe — brilliant , logical , grand , but despite all these things , extremely complex . |
15 | But despite all those programmes on television and articles in newspapers and magazines the fact still remains , an awful lot of people do have problems when they go shopping . |
16 | For despite all that money , all those trips to far-flung places , all those diets , all those health farms and all those vanishing creams , she still ca n't get rid of the cellulite . |