Example sentences of "[prep] spite of [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of knowledge of precautions , injuries from accidents during sport and leisure activities are common-place and account for a significant proportion of emergency admission to hospitals . |
| 2 | Given this incapacity Spain could never hope to maintain diplomatic independence against France or to resist French demands for war against Great Britain , in spite of knowledge of the disastrous consequences of such a war to the Spanish colonial empire and its trade . |
| 3 | But , once again , let me be on the positive side because I mean there 's no doubt about it there are firms which are doing extremely well in spite of recession at the moment , and they are training people as well , but they 're not training in numbers we really need when we go across the patch as a whole . |
| 4 | On March 21 , 1991 , proposals that the President should be directly elected , that the voting age should be lowered from 21 to 18 , and that the number of seats in the Grand National Assembly should be increased from 450 to 600 were presented by Özal , in spite of lack of support from some factions within the ANAP . |
| 5 | In spite of campaign by parents to maintain spending on education , the Government says it wo n't make an exception for Gloucestershire , the only county to be capped . |
| 6 | There were also communications problems , but in spite of help from other Mossies and a Lerwick giving weather conditions and a course to steer , sadly J-Johnnie crashed on a hill top . |
| 7 | The monarchy is no longer aloof , mysterious and unapproachable as in earlier days , yet — in spite of marriage to commoners , children at boarding schools and slightly self-conscious walk-abouts — its till wraps itself in protocol and panoply . |
| 8 | Now that I was in touch with Leslie again , I became very happy at Bletchley , in spite of anxiety over his safety . |
| 9 | So was municipal waste , in spite of growth in GDP per head of 1.8% a year over the period ( chart 1 ) . |
| 10 | In spite of evacuation to an Apparently safe area , Peter Morgan has vivid memories of a more frightening side of wartime activity : . |
| 11 | In spite of unrest in the Ivory Coast in September , prices remained at around £700 a tonne , where they struggled to remain until December . |
| 12 | Though later liberals were to divide on the issues of the election or selection of local government officials ( with radicals in favour of popular election and conservatives for appointment of mayors and councils by the ministry ) , all liberals , in spite of lip-service to the ideal of the medieval municipality , accepted two propositions : that the Cortes , as ‘ sole representative of the sovereign nation ’ , must enforce a uniform and centralized system and that , within this system , the municipalities were ‘ subaltern corporations ’ . |
| 13 | Nick Collins was born at Chopwell in County Durham but came south to find coalmining work in the small Kent coalfield and began playing football for the attractively named Canterbury Waverley , and it was from there that the Palace signed him , in spite of opposition from Arsenal , in late August 1934 . |
| 14 | As expected , the Labour administration pushed through the rises in spite of opposition from the Tory and Scottish National Party groups . |
| 15 | Sometimes , if elderly relatives are living at a distance , it is not possible to be certain , in spite of advice from us , and help from neighbours with the shopping , that they are eating properly , but if they can only be persuaded to drink a pint of milk every day and eat some fresh citrus fruit , wholemeal bread , cheese or eggs , margarine or butter and a bowl of bran cereal , we shall know that they can not come to any serious harm from a dietary point of view , even though a much more varied diet would be more suitable . |
| 16 | But in spite of tragedy around the " first war " , the years were very happy ones at home . |