Example sentences of "be despite the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Success has been despite the somewhat confusing route plan initially imposed on the service south of the Thames by the necessity of incorporating the new service into an existing timetable without increasing mileage . |
| 2 | So clueless and misguided are these sorry types — so lacking in insight , intent and , bloody hell , a sense of humour — that if a great comedy show ever makes it to TV List magazine it can only be DESPITE the pony-tails whose job it is to shepherd these things to a laff-hungry public . |
| 3 | But it was not to be despite the tremendous efforts of players like Paudi Lynch , Pat Claffey , Ian Delamere , Paul Neary , Justin Couch , Enda Moynihan , Dermot Desmond and the rest . |
| 4 | Many Soviet commentators , including Marshal Akhromeev , have criticised America 's determination to keep NATO in being despite the collapse of the Warsaw Pact . |
| 5 | ‘ We are interested but that 's as far as it has gone because Alex Ferguson has shown no desire to let him go , and that 's despite the fact that Neil has not been in his first team . |
| 6 | Those were not the circumstances at Bilsthorpe , but the mines inspectorate insist they were right to allow the roof bolting in the tunnel , or narrow driveage that 's despite the fact that on one side instead of a good coal pillar , only wooden props supported the roof . |
| 7 | And that 's despite the fact they have attracted the best short circuit entry of the year . |
| 8 | This is despite the fact that they carry only a minority of the 13 stigmata of weediness . |
| 9 | This is despite the fact that its acreage of farmland is about the same as that of the United States , a nation that has become the world 's greatest grain exporter . |
| 10 | This is despite the fact that there are such programmes as Mastermind , a sheepdog series ( with which I happen to be involved — I declare my interest ) and superb epics by the Natural History Unit . |
| 11 | This is despite the fact that the Tribunal is appointed by the Government ; that it has no real powers ; and that it is under a duty not to give published reasons for any decision it makes . |
| 12 | This is despite the fact that according to the law report the police officers did not know to which specific pits the pickets were travelling and that some of the evidence of violence on which the police officers relied was that which they had gathered from press and television reports . |
| 13 | This uninspiring performance is despite the fact that West Germany supplies about one-third of gas demand from indigenous reserves . |
| 14 | This is despite the considerable problems of the Synthetic Fuel Corporation . |
| 15 | This is despite the great effort put into scanning for commercial information by their individual business units . |
| 16 | This is despite the fact that the ships would , in war , have to sweep nuclear mines and operate from bases against which the Soviet Union would probably use nuclear bombs or missiles . |
| 17 | This is despite the obvious difficulties of devising experiments to test the effects of the substances on the performance of normal organisms rather than the cure of sick ones . |
| 18 | This is despite the fact that the government in China has total control over migration from the country into the towns , and immediately bulldozes any squatter settlements . |
| 19 | This is despite the fact that economic calculations are still carried out in ‘ prices ’ . |
| 20 | ( This is despite the birth of our new sister title , the superb Fishkeeping Answers now the clear number two in the market more than doubling the sales of any other rival ) . |
| 21 | This is despite the fact that the veto clause is standard in private companies and had existed within the client company Articles of Association since the incorporation in 1979 . |
| 22 | This is despite the agreement made only two years ago that the list should be inflation-proof to the year 2,000 . |
| 23 | This is despite the fact that around 40,000 visitors enter the Magic Kingdom daily to see Mickey and Co at a cost of £23 for adults and £15 for kids . |
| 24 | This is despite the near completion of a £70,000 five year project set up to save the paths . |
| 25 | Romania 's telecommunications development will require $7,000m to $8,000m in investments , according to a senior Ministry of Communications official quoted by Reuter , which notes that that is despite the fact that it is seeking only a modest 25% phone penetration rate by the year 2005 ; Siemens AG and Alcatel NV had offered credits of more than $85m for switching equipment manufactured in Romania and the country aims to install 500,000 new phone lines , 3,125 miles of fibre optic cable , setting up a private television channel and obtaining between 5,000 and 10,000 mobile phone subscribers over the next three years . |
| 26 | This is despite the recommendation of a complaints review panel that his needs would best be met at Milton Heights , a Home Farm Trust home which charges £9,000 a year . |
| 27 | This is despite the passing of a law in 1981 providing for many of the Italian reform components : general hospital wards , community mental health centres and procedures for linking the various sectors . |
| 28 | This is despite the exhibition 's substantial sponsorship : The Daily Telegraph , Pearson plc and Reed International have underwritten the £2 million costs . |
| 29 | This is despite the fact that it is the only universal non-contributory benefit payable to all mothers on behalf of their children , and thus guarantees mothers at least some income for which they do not have to ask their husbands or cohabitees . |
| 30 | As with speaker variables generally , there is despite the apparent specificity of this variable still a problem of interpretation ; many other speaker variables are associated with political orientation such as , for example , an affinity for peasant rather than urban life . |