Example sentences of "despite [be] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Yusopov 's reply — which he found despite being in terrible time pressure — the Russian was always likely to escape with a draw . |
| 2 | Despite being in the centre of the notorious inner-city area of Manchester ( Hulme — an architectural tragedy born out of the fevered brain of a drawing board moron and giving ( high ) rise to a staggering suicide rate . |
| 3 | If they confirm that he left at one-thirty , then that does n't give him much time to have entered Randall Lodge and killed Wetherby ; he was practically at Ollerton by two a.m. , driving slowly despite being in his Daimler . |
| 4 | In fact despite being in what 's described as a small fish tank , the Puffer quickly grew to 12″ and for some reason , would inflate himself to the size of a basketball at 8pm each evening . |
| 5 | Despite being in extreme pain and feeling ill , he turned up the following day at rehearsals with long sleeves disguising his burns . |
| 6 | Throughout the night Joanna sat on the floor , too terrified to cry out for help or remove the blindfold despite being in agony as her contact lenses dried in her eyes . |
| 7 | Pat is keeping remarkably cheerful despite being in a lot of pain . |
| 8 | He met Georges Bettembourg there in 1979 , they became friends and Sustad was invited to go to Shivling in 1981 with Bettembourg and a strong team that included Doug Scott who was to become a great friend and partner , and Don Whillans , who , despite being in his 50s , by then still contributed to the expedition . |
| 9 | Despite being in only half the film , Hopkins — staring , whispering and pulling people 's faces off — reduces Jodie Foster 's Clarice Sterling to a near-supporting role . |
| 10 | Despite being in Alaska at the time , en route round the world with his wife , Pat aboard their yacht Blackjack , Mike returned to the UK in 1989 , specially to design Q2 . |
| 11 | During that time we won it 3 times despite being in the second division for half that time . |
| 12 | The Falcons are flying again — the RAF parachute display team , that is , and as Mike Rowbottom now reports , their first jump of the new season was a nerve-wracking business despite being in many ways a routine affair . |
| 13 | Helen Wrangham was put on a hospital waiting list last April and has not been treated despite being in constant pain , claims her father Peter , of Hart Station . |