Example sentences of "but in [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in spite of the bumps in the beginning he kept coming back to my little home studio and that 's how the second half of our lives together began . |
| 2 | But in spite of the assurances of the District 's Executive Committee , his salary was almost continuously in arrears up to 1930 . |
| 3 | Saga travellers are now jetting around the world , but in spite of the company 's undoubted success , as a 1989 report demonstrated there is little evidence that the British travel trade as a whole has fully understood the importance and increased spending power of the older and more prosperous customer . |
| 4 | But in spite of the way it looked Martin had faked his own death — and done it damned successfully . |
| 5 | But in spite of the difficulties , I 'll continue to live in Sheffield and tour the provincial circuit , if only to keep the London comics suspicious . |
| 6 | But in spite of the fact that I am more attentive to my own affairs than to yours , the disproportion of awareness is not necessarily in my own favour . |
| 7 | Marigold would have preferred Highgate , he knew , but in spite of the therapy and the control he shied away from Highgate . |
| 8 | But in spite of the immense authority which he now possessed , his poetry had ceased to be fashionable or " chic " in the way that The Waste Land or even Ash-Wednesday had originally been : the new , or at least young , poets were no longer particularly interested in what he had to show them . |
| 9 | But in spite of the insistent use of demotic speech in The Confidential Clerk , the very quality which seems to be missing from it is contemporaneity — it is worth remembering , in contrast , that John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger was produced only three years later . |
| 10 | But in spite of the multiplication of new basic research tools in the humanities , it is surprisingly difficult to point , in specific areas , to solid , uncontroverted gains to scholarship which could not have been achieved without the new technology . |
| 11 | In October and November the raids were taking place nearly every night , but in spite of the disturbed nights almost everyone turned up for work next day . |
| 12 | But in spite of the problems , there was never any question of giving up . |
| 13 | But in spite of the changes , Sir George insisted that Constantinople was still a fascinating city , superbly sited , full of interest , and worth visiting just to see Hagia Sophia . |
| 14 | But in spite of the unhappy marriages , people go on marrying and remarrying , do n't they ? |
| 15 | But in spite of the setbacks , the basic story of the last seven years for these campesinos is one of hard-won progress . |
| 16 | He justifies this as follows : ‘ If [ Bach ] is great , that is not because of , but in spite of the dogmatic and parching spirit of the Reformation . ’ |
| 17 | But in spite of the availability of extra officers and traffic wardens to help speed people on their way to the international , an early start was recommended for journeys . |
| 18 | He hopes they soon will , but in spite of the success they have experienced there are those who remain cynical . |
| 19 | Men from these Companies would be the first commando soldiers to fight a prolonged guerrilla war , not in the Middle East but in defence of the approaches to their homeland . |
| 20 | Ever fair-spoken , Malekith said that he desired the kingship not for himself but in honour of the memory of his father . |
| 21 | But in favour of the latter is the awkwardness of the absence of a preposition before rendering , " they will grow wings " , and the Targum 's " and they will be renewed in their youth like the sprouting ( of plumage ) that rises up upon the wings of eagles " . |
| 22 | He was delighted to find himself not merely a Lord 24 years ago , but in possession of the regular expenses his status brings him . |
| 23 | But in dislike of the young usurper who had taken her place , memory of the nastiness in the hall , and pity for the wee lass , Bridhe kept her secret . |
| 24 | But in front of the other pupils Mother Francis had made an iron-hard rule that Eve must never be seen to do anything which would give her a different status . |
| 25 | Ramsay certainly obtained a kiss and a hug from Mariot in farewell , but in front of the others it was not of the sort to analyse carefully ; indeed he got a similar embrace from Black Agnes . |
| 26 | The Leasing and Factoring Conventions , with a view to expansion of their scope , follow the model of the Vienna Sales Convention but in acknowledgment of the concerns expressed by various States all three Conventions confer a power on Contracting States to make reservations excluding the second form of connecting factor . |
| 27 | But another set of presidential advisers , based not in the Kremlin but in offices of the Russian government , are engaged in daily trench warfare with the conservative apparatchiks who still run the bureaucracy . |
| 28 | But in light of the German response to events in the Gulf , and to a lesser extent in the Baltic , allied diplomats give this scheme little chance . |
| 29 | This , the Institute stresses , remains a core requirement , but in recognition of the difficulties of separating accounting from auditing experience in many assignments , the two functions have been linked for qualification purposes . |
| 30 | but in recognition of the pluralistic nature of the politics in modern capitalism he tried to draw a distinction between state power and class power . |