Example sentences of "despite [v-ing] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | MATLOCK TOWN , the HFS Loans League team , are still in the FA Trophy - despite having been defeated in the first round . |
| 2 | Once , at Milan airport , we were herded to the gate and corralled in an area almost big enough for half of us , then shifted to a bus with six seats and standing room for forty , in which the one hundred and twenty of us stood and waited for the idiot who always arrives twenty minutes late despite having been called ten times and being the subject of an Interpol missing persons search . |
| 3 | Despite having been through the regulatory mangle time again and time again , the group still has the potential to generate a lot of cash , and yields about 8 p.c. on forecasts for 1993 . |
| 4 | The Duke arranged for a long avenue Or lime trees to be planted alongside a driveway leading from the main road that ran westward from London ( Chiswick High Road ) and sweeping into his Chiswick House grounds and , despite having been cut in two by the dual carriageway of the Great West Road Extension , it still remains as Dukes Avenue . |
| 5 | In 1891 the point was severely reiterated by Dr Maclagan , the Archbishop of York , who was a strong objector to moustaches despite having been a major in the Madras cavalry and who walked ‘ as though he had his loins girded by a sword belt ’ . |
| 6 | Patricia Martin , 38 , had hoped to keep an affair secret from her husband but she fell pregnant despite having been sterilised . |
| 7 | Next day Roth has a morning full of interviews to deal with and , despite having been out clubbing till six in the morning , he manages to make it — although his jeans and T-shirt look like he slept in them . |
| 8 | The good news is , therefore , that despite having been beaten by better sides , improvements are certainly to be expected . |
| 9 | Despite having been in the open for only a few seconds , they had been soaked . |
| 10 | That honour went to the Phoenix , which despite having been in the wars , returned a very respectable Power Index of 11,857 . |
| 11 | Its Dominican monastery is where the Czech protestant reformer John Huss was imprisoned in 1415 , despite having been given a safe conduct to appear before the Council of Konstanz . |
| 12 | Thereafter Miss Logan , despite having been engaged for her experience , confined herself to the cabin . |
| 13 | By December however , Fleming 's Level had still not cut the vein despite having been driven 47 fathoms . |
| 14 | After four attempts to elect a Chair of the Ukrainian Council of Ministers , the outgoing holder of the post , Vitaly Masol , was re-elected on June 28 , despite having been blamed by some deputies during the election debate for the Ukraine 's current economic problems . |
| 15 | The question of forming an independent union had sharply divided delegates during the five days of debate , despite having been approved in principle at the first congress in June [ see p. 37617 ] . |
| 16 | WAR CRIMES : in the United Kingdom the War Crimes Act , allowing for the prosecution of alleged Nazi war criminals , received the Royal Assent on May 9 , despite having been defeated twice in the House of Lords . |
| 17 | Miyazawa 's eventual success in the leadership poll was attributed to the support of the largest faction in the LDP , led jointly by Shin Kanemaru and by former Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita , who remained a powerful force in LDP politics despite having been accused of involvement in the Recruit Cosmos financial scandal of 1987-89 . |
| 18 | As Dr O'Brien has recently pointed out , in effect British governments between 1714 and 1815 constructed a revenue system from component parts which enabled them to increase tax revenues per head from Europe 's most rapidly growing population much more successfully than the French from the end of the eighteenth century , despite having been less heavily taxed up to then . |
| 19 | Trotsky and the ice-man had been his attempt to solve the problem of why he was still alive despite having been shot in the head . |
| 20 | I told my father I was trying to get them over to the far side , to the mainland , and that the ones I had to bury , the ones which fell short , were victims of scientific research , but I doubt I really needed this excuse , my father never seemed bothered about the suffering of lower forms of life , despite having been a hippy , and perhaps because of his medical training . |
| 21 | Despite the UK using more pesticides than most , a slow and cumbersome system for pesticide review means that 30-year-old chemicals remain in use despite having been superseded by safer alternatives , Clark argues . |
| 22 | The Scottish wildcat is still being hunted despite having been a protected species since 1988 , according to a report from the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland . |
| 23 | Contradictions in the novel justify contradictions sustained by the reading , despite having been produced by the reading in the first place . |
| 24 | Despite having been in touch with many agencies , they 'd only had five applicants so far — four of whom had been absolutely hopeless . |