Example sentences of "[verb] that despite the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Chancellor , Nigel Lawson , addresses the Tory party conference this morning , he will know that despite the appearance of support from the lady at his side , it she who is almost single-handedly responsible for the undermining of his policy and his prestige . |
| 2 | Having taken your bags of donated books from you at the church door last year , you may like to know that despite the awful rain this week , Christian Aid Sale funds stood at around £35K by noon today , so the total should be up on that figure . |
| 3 | Adler found that despite the legislation a woman 's sexual history was routinely introduced during a rape trial . |
| 4 | A February 1991 report by the environmental pressure group Greenpeace found that despite the March 1989 signing of a convention on the international transport and disposal of hazardous waste [ see p. 36541 ] industrialized countries continued to export their toxic waste . |
| 5 | The words on the cutting room floor reported that despite the sheer , stunned disbelief at a rotten decision youth manager Don Hawkins and the remaining players all shook the referee 's hand at the bitter end . |
| 6 | Adams ( 1979 ) presents a review and experimental study of the subject , and concludes that despite the theoretical problems , there is practical value in teaching rhythm to learners of English . |
| 7 | Yet it thinks that despite the aggressiveness of the programme , ‘ Alpha may be too little , too late . ’ |
| 8 | He realised that despite the money he would miss this place , the friendly faces , even the work that blinded him . |
| 9 | Gradually we realised that despite the wealth , warmth and comfort , Templecombe held an eerie , sinister air . |
| 10 | I am delighted to report that despite the increase both of magpies and crows last year , I have observed over the winter feeding period the usual mixture of birds . |
| 11 | Dr John Hapgood argued that despite the coma there was still hope Tony could recover . |
| 12 | Habash added that despite the suspension , the PFLP " will continue to work alongside other national institutions . " |
| 13 | Fred Gillett of the American science team says that despite the sun 's heat falling on IRAS , the satellite 's insulation is working so well that there is ‘ less heat going into the system than is radiated by the tip of my little finger ’ . |
| 14 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 15 | He noted that despite the fact that its glory lay mainly in the nature of the orchestral score ‘ one could start afresh with a version for piano and still do a Pelleas of great vitality ’ . |
| 16 | He noted that despite the fact that its glory lay mainly in the nature of the orchestral score ‘ one could start afresh with a version for piano and still do a Pelleas of great vitality ’ . |
| 17 | First , it could be argued that despite the existence of an evil , worldwide conspiracy its manipulators , or insiders , were not principally or exclusively Jewish . |
| 18 | Some scholars have argued that despite the front quality of OE /ae/ , ME a was a back vowel ( or perhaps merely a fully low vowel : it is not always clear what is meant by ‘ back vowel ’ ) , and on this basis have postulated a change around 1600 from a back ( or low ) value to front-raised /ae/ , which is of course the modern conservative RP value . |
| 19 | It will be argued that despite the obvious impact of government policy , the way in which policies are converted into practice within the enterprise and the precise form they take are problematic . |
| 20 | Sources at Compagnie des Machines Bull SA say that , in the multi-annual plan , chief executive Bernard Pache is likely to outline further potential partnerships and cost-cutting measures , adding that despite the tough tone , it is difficult to imagine that the new government will refuse all further financing for Bull , letting it run the risk of receivership and the dumping of 30,000 workers , at a time when France 's biggest concern is retaining and creating new jobs . |
| 21 | ‘ We had to use our spare two gallons , ’ he said , adding that despite the handicap of such a small tank they were never stranded . |
| 22 | They claimed that despite the hundreds of years of Polish independence , ‘ the East ’ owed what little civilisation it could muster to the efforts of the Germans . |
| 23 | He predicted that despite the recent seizure of plastic explosives , the Provisionals were well armed and would resort to using bigger bombs in their attacks . |
| 24 | It showed that despite the Chancellor 's unopposed re-election as chairman of his party and his tactical victory over leading rivals , voters are unimpressed with his performance and that of the CDU . |
| 25 | The opposition her public career provoked — as a single woman speaking about sexuality — showed that despite the gains made by repeal feminism , women still risked censure and social ostracization when they crossed the boundaries from the private to the public sphere . |
| 26 | An examination of the Qur'an , however , reveals that despite the traditional association of Islam with emphasis upon the transcendence of God , it also highlights the divine immanence or presence . |
| 27 | FEMALE CIRCUMCISION UK , again produced by Louise Panton , reveals that despite the 1985 Act , young girls born and brought up in Britain are still circumcised , and in the most radical way . |
| 28 | The BSA report also reveals that despite the slump in the construction trade , private sector builders started work on 6,199 new houses last year , up 12.1pc on 1991 . |
| 29 | Noting that despite the evidence of academic and government reports , which had pointed to widespread discrimination against young blacks , very little had been done to remedy the position , Scarman concluded that : ( a ) many young blacks believed that violence was an effective means of protest against their conditions ; and ( b ) far from the riots being a meaningless event , they were ‘ essentially an outburst of anger and resentment by young black people against the police ’ ( Scarman , 1981 , paras . |
| 30 | Comparison between this last work , with its highly charged and colourful imagery , and Avitus of Vienne 's work on chastity , which approaches the same subject through an examination of his own family , reveals a vast difference in the imagination of the two writers , and does suggest that despite the continuities , there had been a sharp change of taste in the first half of the sixth century . |