Example sentences of "despite [adj] attempts [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talks have been going on for weeks over the future of the Royal marriage , but despite repeated attempts to save it , the Queen finally decided it was all over on Tuesday afternoon . |
| 2 | Nonpublication of Liberal Democrat Press releases by your paper seems to be a common event , my colleagues inform me , despite repeated attempts to prompt your Editor . |
| 3 | Nor did it ever completely disappear , despite repeated attempts to extirpate it . |
| 4 | Section by section it was being revised in the commissions and then approved during the general congregations — despite last-minute attempts to modify it to contain an explicit condemnation of communism . |
| 5 | Despite three attempts to buy it and run it themselves , it 's been sold instead to another private bidder . |
| 6 | Despite all attempts to fulfil his artistic ideals by being in London and in contract with all the leading painters of the time , he found it strangely frustrating . |
| 7 | Despite desperate attempts to revive her , the trace remained stubbornly flat , until in the end they had to give up . |