Example sentences of "[prep] spite of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of difficulties — and of the fact that eight Anglican provinces already ordain women — official discussions about unity continue . |
| 2 | I would agree that some of our residential homes , in spite of difficulties do provide very good residential care for people with dementia and that ideally , we need a combination of residential care and cursing skills with good support from community and hospital psychiatric and paramedical services as and when it is needed . |
| 3 | The Protestant element favoured complete union with England , in spite of warnings that this would mean subjugation — by peaceful means rather than the warlike ones of the past , but subjugation nonetheless . |
| 4 | They had been coming over steadily ever since , in spite of warnings about the difficulties of living in a foreign land — warnings given them by the English Jewish establishment . |
| 5 | Boys will be boys and in spite of warnings at least one fatal accident occurred involving local lads , and several were injured . |
| 6 | The first was carried out , the second was not , in spite of warnings from the engineers : ‘ The preliminary study has highlighted the high damage costs associated with flooding on rural and urban communities , and the very real possibility of more extensive and serious flooding of Perth occurring in the future . ’ |
| 7 | A Great Western saloon was positioned at Aylesbury but , in spite of efforts from many people , could not be used . |
| 8 | The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland had legalised Sinn Fein in order to allow the Provisional wing to take part in the election but in spite of efforts to persuade them to do so they declined to take part and urged their supporters to stay at home on polling day . |
| 9 | In spite of efforts to give some semblance of fair treatment to the ordinary sailor ( the most notable was the passage of Grenville 's Navy Act in 1758 ) no radical improvement in the methods or rate of payment was made until after the mutinies of 1797 . |
| 10 | In spite of efforts to speed up the operation — the planned four-week courses run by Portuguese and British training officers for soldiers in the new army were , for example , cut to two weeks — by Sept. 28 only 8,800 soldiers had received training and were ready to be sworn in as members of the new force . |
| 11 | Brian Adair , the president of the Law Society of Scotland , said that with underfunding and undermanning the country 's criminal and civil courts were creaking at the seams in spite of efforts to shore them up . |
| 12 | A father-of-two , Sergeant Bill Forth , 34 , died early yesterday after being stabbed in spite of efforts by a colleague and householders to save him . |
| 13 | He said the country 's criminal and civil courts were creaking at the seams in spite of efforts to shore them up . |
| 14 | How is everyone , in spite of things ? ’ |
| 15 | In spite of reassurances by the United States President , George Bush , that there would be no reductions in the 43,000 US forces in South Korea , bilateral defence talks to this effect took place in December 1989 and January 1990 . |
| 16 | In spite of directives ensuring compliance and enabling the Commission to take offenders to the Court of Justice , the situation is little changed . |
| 17 | With the ardour of his age Dick agrees to carry a vital message across the frontier into Flavonia : delighting in unexpected action , he is afraid only of being late and failing in his mission and it is the free resourcefulness of a boy that ensures that in spite of accidents the message does get through . |
| 18 | This is in spite of alpha-particles being less penetrating than gamma-rays . |
| 19 | In a game of increasing thunder , he 's a welcome fork of lightning , sometimes appearing to thrive in spite of team-mates rather than because of them . |
| 20 | In spite of problems with the data , a number of themes and trends do however emerge . |
| 21 | Mitterrand said that Turkish " association " with the Western European Union ( WEU ) was desirable ( in spite of problems raised by Greek-Turkish relations ) . |
| 22 | In spite of threats of defiance , court-imposed fines were collected from the NUM , NGA , and Transport and General Workers ' Union . |
| 23 | In spite of moves by the South Korean government to open up its long-and-heavily protected domestic economy to foreign imports , efforts by many multinational companies to break into South Korean markets have run into trouble . |
| 24 | A pair of granite chairs by Scott Burton ( lot 55 , est. $100–150,000 ) sold for $80,000 ( £44,400 ) , in spite of concerns about their condition Lichtenstein 's ‘ Laughing cat ’ ( lot 44a , est. $350–450,000 ) failed to attract any interest and was bought in at $190,000 . |
| 25 | What is evident is that , in spite of variations in the rate of reduction of rural services and the different attitudes of various governments to the public subsidy of railways , the pattern of rural services is now very much as Dr Beeching seems to have wanted . |
| 26 | Two others , Des Walker and Brett Williams , were thought to be playing in spite of injuries , and the England defender was unable to continue beyond half-time . |
| 27 | Would men , misled into fighting for a cause which , in spite of claims made on its behalf , was a war fought for the wrong motives , be eternally damned if they met their death suddenly in battle , even if they were fighting out of loyalty to their king ? |
| 28 | Neither achieves greater accountability of local authorities to the voters , in spite of claims made for the CC … |
| 29 | In spite of claims by some delegates that a settlement was imminent , prices suffered a setback after a report that Nigeria would not accept a cut in its output of more than 50,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) , compared with the 75,000 bpd which it was reported previously to have offered . |
| 30 | The Leuchars squadron is to be replaced by Sea Kings operating from RAF Bulmer and RAF Lossiemouth , in spite of claims that the longer response times for fishermen in trouble in the Forth and climbers in peril north of the line of the Tay could mean lives being lost . |