Example sentences of "because despite " in BNC.
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| 1 | The biggest problem is containing the number of speeches you have to give , because despite the fact the industry has contracted , all the institutions that relate to our industry are still flourishing . |
| 2 | I do not remember now how or why I did so , because despite my infatuation I still sometimes thought Dana was a Franco spy , or from the FBI or the CIA or even the CID or the KGB . |
| 3 | It 's a thankless task then , because despite having become the most successful band of the time , you pick up flak for the next album not working commercially . |
| 4 | One reason might be that it is a case of ‘ out of sight , out of mind ’ , because despite the fact that the chestnut-shaped prostate gland plays a vital secretory role in ejaculation , it is a very hidden organ , surrounding the upper part of the urethra and tucked away under the bladder and behind the rectum . |
| 5 | Because despite ignorance breeding a precious snobbery towards the seemingly ‘ uncool ’ , all it takes is one rock hero to mention Gram Parsons to inadvertently give the all-clear . |
| 6 | Some analysts are puzzled at Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's planned $500m-plus fund-raising exercise ( see page seven ) , Reuter reports from Milan , because despite all its other problems , the company was thought to have no short-term liquidity problems — net debt is relatively low and the balance sheet is supposed to be healthy . |
| 7 | Any ozone depletion is likely to be small , however , because despite the huge increases in reactive surfaces provided by the Pinatubo aerosol , which resulted in a mid-latitude loss of 20% NO 2 , there was no apparent reduction in the ozone column . |
| 8 | The steaks fitted both descriptions : terrible because despite their pampered lives , they were as tasteless as any meat which had not been properly hung ; typically English because even on small plates they looked mean and thin and had been further abused by overcooking . |
| 9 | Our subsequent contacts with school staff in the city indicated that the legacy was a powerful and often negative one , and that it continued to be reinforced because despite a general loosening of LEA control and a government-sponsored shift to a greater measure of school self-determination , the Authority was perceived by schools as continuing to present itself as the main definer and arbiter of good practice . |
| 10 | Because despite the mysteries and attempted murder , it was then getting on towards the mid-point of that Vadinamian bio-day . |
| 11 | Forbes was thus a contemporary of Darwin and Huxley ; but because he died at the height of his powers just five years before the Origin of Species was published , and because despite his time in Paris he remained an outdoor natural historian having little temptation towards laboratory-based physiology , his work was incomplete and soon seemed obsolete . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ I was very pleased at the way I ran because despite the fact that my training did not go so well I was only five minutes behind my best ever time . |
| 13 | Here they were , parked a thousand metres up the dough-shaped mountain , huddled in Ellen 's Fiat 500 because despite the sun the wind outside was wicked . |
| 14 | And then there was the attempt not to issue a questionnaire to every household but to reserve the questionnaires in the Town Hall for four week days Saturdays to will honour the people who did n't actually have Friday who were at home perhaps walk in to the City Centre you might be able to pick one of these up and then there was the problem distrib in distributing the questionnaire because despite of the assurance given to the consultants they were nevertheless distributed amongst the numerous St Albans and believe you me even those likely people who did go to the press do sometimes for every that we having suddenly fully congressed to see whether perhaps there might be a consultation questionnaire lurking within it . |
| 15 | More than physical possession , in which , Proust says , one actually possesses nothing , Marcel seeks from Albertine reassurance concerning his own distinctiveness , his separateness , his individuality , and in Proust 's conception of love , therefore , failure is inevitable , because despite the conventionally unifying language of love , what we seek at the most profound level is not contact with another person , but contact with ourselves . |