Example sentences of "despite [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite being repeatedly arrested and brought back home , bruised and beaten by the police , she finally got to see the King by throwing herself into the road in front of the Royal car . |
| 2 | In later years , by contrast , he came to speak in public less and less frequently , despite being repeatedly urged to do so by Goebbels and others , evidently realizing only too well how closely the effectiveness of his rhetoric was dependent on being able to report success and to hold out hope for an end to the war . |
| 3 | Despite being desperately busy with his business affairs , Ross had been infinitely patient and gentle , taking all the time in the world to skilfully lead her onwards to further erotic , rapturous delights of sexual fulfilment . |
| 4 | This building , along with two other structures , was listed , but others on the site , despite being equally attractive , had only conservation area protection . |
| 5 | Mrs Pauline Rees , activities organiser at Trees Park , said Mrs Rand was as bright as ever despite being partly deaf and wheelchair-bound . |
| 6 | What I do not possess , however , is any suitable travelling clothes — that is to say , clothes in which I might be seen driving the car — unless I were to don the suit passed on by the young Lord Chalmers during the war , which despite being clearly too small for me , might be considered ideal in terms of tone . |
| 7 | Despite being normally mesmerised by the subject of the early Renaissance artists , on this occasion I was grateful to see the professor stacking up his papers a few minutes before the lecture was scheduled to end . |
| 8 | Not least BARRY MOONCULT who went so ape-dropping crazy , he was spotted stumbling out of the party while it was in full swing armed with a stash of joke bombs , which despite being pretty harmless ( containing about as much genuine explosive as your average cap pistol ) make a loud enough bang to put the fear of God into the most ardent of atheists . |
| 9 | Despite being rather shocked , they responded extremely well , and gave Joanne a lot of help and support . |
| 10 | By the early 1900s , the birth of the Labour Party , despite being closely involved with Liberalism , signalled a new phase in class politics , and between 1910 and 1918 the continued growth of the party together with a rapid increase in trade-union membership , syndicalism , deteriorating industrial relations , social unrest , and the influence of the Russian Revolution , were all factors pointing in an ominous direction . |
| 11 | ‘ The wisdom of pricing gas at parity with imported oil has thus been officially recognised for the first time in Pakistan , despite being electorally unpopular . |
| 12 | Despite being generally unlicensed these tend to work alongside the regular staff usually in the larger urban abattoirs . |
| 13 | Despite being largely sympathetic , few doctors provide constructive advice . |
| 14 | Manchester United 's Ryan Giggs is also included , despite being controversially pulled out of the Cyprus game by manager Alex Ferguson . |
| 15 | He obtained his freedom in 1610 , and thereafter built a successful business as printer and publisher , despite being frequently at the centre of political and religious controversy and at odds with the more established members of his company . |
| 16 | Despite being utterly inevitable , our hero 's hesitant romance with the camp nurse takes painfully long to blossom . |
| 17 | Hastings affirms his loyalty to ‘ my master 's heirs in true descent ’ , despite being explicitly told that Richard intends to be king ( III.ii.36–55 ) , and in the face of ominous dreams and omens ( III.ii.10ff. , III.iv.81ff . ) . |
| 18 | And , despite being fairly scatty and not particularly intellectual , she 'd worked very hard to gain the necessary qualifications which would enable her to attend an art college in London . |
| 19 | Despite being very nicely presented in a slip binder with well printed manuals , shame they did n't follow the ‘ industry standard ’ for size , the first thing the new user sees is a license agreement that effectively disclaims all responsibility for anything . |
| 20 | Despite being very close to an agreement with NALGO it was disappointing for the Special Finance Committee held on the 7 October 1992 to learn that the latest package offer had been rejected and to find that a number of employees had taken industrial action to lobby the meeting . |
| 21 | If the geological community , which , despite being very well supplied with bibliographical data on research theses , only makes direct use of one quarter of such works , then it is likely that in other subject areas which are less well supported bibliographically , levels of thesis use will be even lower . |
| 22 | Erm , this whole area of learning theory is a very traditional area but it has it has been very influential actually very recently , despite being very ancient . |
| 23 | Despite being only a facelift of the current range , the new Polo manages to lose its tired old image — and it comes not a moment too soon , says Andrew Frankel |
| 24 | In the first twenty-year period , 1951 to 1971 , the News of the World had carried the vast majority of the rape cases which were reported anywhere in the national press ( despite being only a weekly paper ) . |
| 25 | ‘ The Sierra , despite being more roomy and having a 2.3-litre motor , gets along nicely on a lot less . |
| 26 | Despite being more nervous than he 'd ever been in his life he hit a 3-iron from the edge of the fairway bunker to within 20 feet of the flag . |
| 27 | Consequently , the vast majority of contemporary rugs made in Afghanistan and the Soviet Union remain faithful to their tribal heritage and employ predominantly geometric schemes , despite being often of workshop origin . |
| 28 | The second pitch is undoubtedly the crux , despite being much less sustained than the initial crack . |
| 29 | Despite being so many years his junior , she had instinctively known how to handle him . |
| 30 | Despite being so ubiquitous , until now they 've been solely a male preserve . |