Example sentences of "that despite " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lady raised an admonitory finger in rebuke and the sergeant observed , to his surprise , that despite it being a hot summer 's day , she was wearing what appeared to be mittens . |
| 2 | It must be said , however , that despite the beautiful detail of Piaget 's behavioural descriptions , his picture of the mental reorganizations underlying behavioural change was painted with a very broad brush ( by present-day standards ) ; and indeed the assimilation-accommodation model is little more than a description of what has to be explained , awaiting , what we now call , a ‘ computational model ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But Elaine says that despite this help , she might as well be in an institution . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Berle told Roosevelt in his official report on the conference that despite its failure to decide the main issue ( for which he blamed Swinton and Beaverbrook ) , a great deal had been achieved , and positions were made known : ‘ A substantial beginning has been made to opening the air for commerce . |
| 7 | But in the early postwar years its import surplus was so large that despite expanded gold exports it was a net drawer on the sterling pool , until it left the pool at the end of 1947 . |
| 8 | Given that Callinicos ' book is difficult , and given the probability that despite the seriousness of its argument it is unlikely to be widely debated , I will firstly offer an interpretation of what I think its main themes are , and what they are not . |
| 9 | Callinicos ' conclusion to these arguments is that despite their efforts , built around a claimed contrast of the postmodern either with or within Modernism , these authors have produced only ‘ mutually and often internally inconsistent accounts ’ of the ‘ postmodern ’ , manifesting an ‘ inability to come up with a plausible and coherent account of its distinguishing characteristics ’ ( p. 28 ) . |
| 10 | The temptation is to view these publications and the exhibition as a proliferation of surfaces which are in a sense pretty vacant reminders that despite the essentially teleological nature of the Situationist project , it is now immobilised and its documents merely a contribution to culture as the spectacular remains of an abandoned revolutionary ideal . |
| 11 | A result is that despite the reduced power — 73bhp against 108 — the car gets along briskly enough without feeling quite so strained . |
| 12 | But it is also plain that despite sterling 's depreciation to a rate at which it might be reasonably competitive within the Exchange Rate Mechanism , Mrs Thatcher 's team are no more ready to sign on the dotted line than they were in Madrid this summer . |
| 13 | It is important for history to show that despite what happened the board was responsible in its conduct and its financial affairs ’ . |
| 14 | Mr Berge , appointed in September last year by his friend President Mitterrand , opened the conference with the declaration that despite the jealous and envious reports of the foreign press they now had at the Opera a ‘ welded team ’ and were in a condition of being ‘ resonant and reasonable ’ . |
| 15 | It would be nice to write that despite these lapses of judgment , not to mention the occasional maladministration , investors and other stakeholders in business do not have to worry because of the safety superstructure which has been built since . |
| 16 | It is a sign of the times that despite the cost research is continuing . |
| 17 | So it was not really surprising that despite his upwardly mobile outlook , Collor attended the paupers ' summit in June 1990 at which fifteen debtor nations from the underdeveloped South discussed their predicament . |
| 18 | It was her solitary research and activism during the 1970s which alerted the world to the fact that despite the end of large-scale hunting in the 1950s , numbers had continued to decline , and the whales were on the verge of extinction . |
| 19 | So effective was our penetration into Olympia that despite repeated attempts , Mosley was unable to make his speech because of the noise and the fighting between his stewards supporters and the anti-Fascists . |
| 20 | Though Labour joined with the Conservatives in May 1940 to fight the Second World War , under Churchill 's leadership , it is clear that despite the almost obsessive concern of the public about the threat of European fascism it was only the Labour Party , slow and cumbersome in its rate of change , which actually squared up to the necessity of facing fascism with military sanctions if necessary . |
| 21 | ‘ We knew that despite what they promised we would n't get any real control , ’ comments Gilbert Hernandez . |
| 22 | Should you find that despite all this you do occasionally eat too much , try to take extra exercise , the occasional long walk at least , to work it off . |
| 23 | At the root of the mixture of emotions that Kylie felt that day was the very real feat that despite the fame and fabulous wealth that might lie ahead of her , her future might not allow her to ever again be part of as precious and close a group of friends as she was during her Neighbours days . |
| 24 | Perhaps some component of Pascal 's restless questioning was due to his displacement through recurrent ill-health , but what makes his questionings still worth reading , is that they confront the foundations of our existence and that despite the fact that he is sometimes seen merely as a Catholic apologist . |
| 25 | Rather breathlessly , he told her that despite this , no one and nothing could take from them what had been . |
| 26 | He said that despite the Rotary Club being made up mainly of shopkeepers and small businessmen , they had been ‘ very helpful ’ in putting them in touch with Rotary contacts in London . |
| 27 | Joe Kinnear , the Wimbledon manager , was concerned that despite such a list of absentees Liverpool might be even more dangerous . |
| 28 | They also beat West Ham in the Zenith Data Systems Cup and never gave up the belief that despite being under pressure they could record a third victory last night . |
| 29 | It has to be said , however , that despite passionate support from 105,000 fans in the Nou Camp , their performance did not bear the hallmark of European champions . |
| 30 | A complicating factor in all this was that despite the opposition of the Eastern District Council , expressed both before and after the decision had been taken , Cambridge University Extra-Mural Board resolved in December 1955 to withdraw its resident tutors from some of the counties it served . |