Example sentences of "in spite [prep] all the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such stalwarts as Chairman Peter Harris , Hon Treasurer and Welfare Officer Tom Smith and Hon Secretary Roger Draper continue to serve in spite of all the pressures of work in this uncertain environment . |
| 2 | The real lesson of the 23 July Cabinet meeting was that , in spite of all the doubts expressed , Margaret Thatcher and Geoffrey Howe stood firm and gave not an inch . |
| 3 | She obviously would n't have anyone else at her time of life , in spite of all the men in her stories . |
| 4 | And how long will they not believe in me , in spite of all the signs which I have wrought among them ? |
| 5 | For , in spite of all the limitations mentioned , the church does provide ‘ rites of passage ’ for mourners to begin to recognize their changed status as grieving people . |
| 6 | In spite of all the technological developments land sophistication and speed of modern communication , the point of a campaign roadshow is the same as it was in the days of the whistle-stop tour when politicians addressed voters from the backs of trains : to communicate with the maximum number of people in the short time available . |
| 7 | But in spite of all the commotion , I am relatively happy . |
| 8 | In spite of all the grandeur that surrounded it , there was no one to call it creator ; for it had not brought forth creation . |
| 9 | In spite of all the intensive study of the worm 's development there is still little , if any , understanding of why two sister cells can develop , autonomously , along different pathways . |
| 10 | In spite of all the soundings , all the X-rays , my stomach was a secret , virginal place . |
| 11 | In spite of all the anxieties about finance , then , governors can make a valuable contribution and can help to see that every department or area of the school gets a fair share of the limited resources available . |
| 12 | In spite of all the work done by Ludwig Prandtl and his colleagues , it was a daring step to commit the resources of the mighty Germania yards , in early 1924 , to install two metal cylinders more than 12 m tall on the elegant schooner Buckau , so soon after the idea had ignited Flettner 's imagination in 1921 . |
| 13 | In spite of all the worrying about it the next stage with Edward still took Sally by surprise when it actually happened . |
| 14 | Has the LDDC , in spite of all the hype and political prominence , been in some sense a failure ? |
| 15 | In spite of all the traumas of the last four years Meg 's inner self was too confidently rooted to be prone to that kind of sexual or social self-abasement . |
| 16 | In spite of all the powers with which he was armed , and routinely used for routine ends , it is clear that the Northern Nigerian Resident too often failed to use them for good : being , rather than doing , good came to define the limits of his aspirations . |
| 17 | It has been postulated that it was either the dinosaurs that opened up the way for the angiosperms , or instead it was the changing nature of the flora itself that was in some way the prime mover of evolutionary trends ; that , in spite of all the advances in jaw structure discussed above , they somehow speeded up trends towards extinction . |
| 18 | Bakker , then , in spite of all the criticism levelled at him , was partly right even if he was a little too loose with his terminology . |
| 19 | In spite of all the obvious agonising , has Neil ever experienced a time when he was totally happy with his sound , and could quote a recorded example of this ? |
| 20 | In spite of all the hard work she began to put on a little weight . |
| 21 | In spite of all the times he had been there Adam missed the turn-off that was the drift leading down to Wyvis Hall . |
| 22 | In spite of all the centuries which he had to learn about it the traditional ship-wright seemed to be unable to understand about shear . |
| 23 | One of them , the landlord of the pub , got pissed and kissed me on the mouth and talked about the problems of these demarcations — and this is in spite of all the AIDS hysteria . |
| 24 | In spite of all the evidence from Abraham onwards , they apparently believed that God writes off anyone who does not belong to the actual nation of Israel . |
| 25 | IN SPITE of all the initial press that latched Drop Nineteens into a very English tradition of sonic cathedral-building , there 's a much stronger sense of American character that runs through all they do ; a kind of gaucheness and wide-eyed wonder that 's encapsulated in ‘ Kick The Tragedy ’ 's dreamy recollection of the two big orange trees growing in Greg 's Mom 's Florida back garden . |
| 26 | The problem for librarian and teacher alike is to devise a system which will enable him to achieve reasonable success in spite of all the colossal problems that the size and growth of human knowledge present . |
| 27 | Yet within each school , and perhaps particularly among those using a long-wave framework , there is debate about the degree to which in spite of all the observable regularities the shape of the future is mouldable , is ours to create . |
| 28 | In spite of all the weak traits in his character , David Miller had kept his promise to Beth . |
| 29 | I 'll engage to pull down in three hours what you 'll be building up in as many years , in spite of all the lessons you can teach her . |
| 30 | Table 4.4 clearly shows that in spite of all the additional resources of PNP , and in spite of the fact that , on average , their teachers were involved in more than three teacher-pupil interactions every minute , individual children took part in only eleven teacher-pupil interactions per hour , of which fewer than half were task-related : indeed in some classes the mean hourly rate of individual pupils ' task-related interactions with their teachers was as tow as two , and in no class was it higher than eleven . |