Example sentences of "[prep] spite of [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The monarchy is no longer aloof , mysterious and unapproachable as in earlier days , yet — in spite of marriage to commoners , children at boarding schools and slightly self-conscious walk-abouts — its till wraps itself in protocol and panoply . |
| 2 | In spite of evacuation to an Apparently safe area , Peter Morgan has vivid memories of a more frightening side of wartime activity : . |
| 3 | Though later liberals were to divide on the issues of the election or selection of local government officials ( with radicals in favour of popular election and conservatives for appointment of mayors and councils by the ministry ) , all liberals , in spite of lip-service to the ideal of the medieval municipality , accepted two propositions : that the Cortes , as ‘ sole representative of the sovereign nation ’ , must enforce a uniform and centralized system and that , within this system , the municipalities were ‘ subaltern corporations ’ . |
| 4 | The deal was given the go-ahead by the Department of Trade and Industry in spite of protests to the European Commission and the Office of Fair Trading by BA 's competitors . |
| 5 | Prince Bola Ajibola , the Minister of Justice and federal Attorney General , confirmed on Sept. 12 that power would be handed to a civilian administration on Oct. 1 , 1992 , as planned , in spite of adjustments to the interim timetable . |
| 6 | In spite of representations to the Eve Committee in 1967 , the pressure for a separate Building Surveying Division had not been sufficient . |