Example sentences of "[prep] spite of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been coming over steadily ever since , in spite of warnings about the difficulties of living in a foreign land — warnings given them by the English Jewish establishment . |
| 2 | The first was carried out , the second was not , in spite of warnings from the engineers : ‘ The preliminary study has highlighted the high damage costs associated with flooding on rural and urban communities , and the very real possibility of more extensive and serious flooding of Perth occurring in the future . ’ |
| 3 | Given this incapacity Spain could never hope to maintain diplomatic independence against France or to resist French demands for war against Great Britain , in spite of knowledge of the disastrous consequences of such a war to the Spanish colonial empire and its trade . |
| 4 | In spite of reassurances by the United States President , George Bush , that there would be no reductions in the 43,000 US forces in South Korea , bilateral defence talks to this effect took place in December 1989 and January 1990 . |
| 5 | But , once again , let me be on the positive side because I mean there 's no doubt about it there are firms which are doing extremely well in spite of recession at the moment , and they are training people as well , but they 're not training in numbers we really need when we go across the patch as a whole . |
| 6 | In spite of problems with the data , a number of themes and trends do however emerge . |
| 7 | In spite of moves by the South Korean government to open up its long-and-heavily protected domestic economy to foreign imports , efforts by many multinational companies to break into South Korean markets have run into trouble . |
| 8 | What is evident is that , in spite of variations in the rate of reduction of rural services and the different attitudes of various governments to the public subsidy of railways , the pattern of rural services is now very much as Dr Beeching seems to have wanted . |
| 9 | In spite of fears about the use of the hormone , the names of the farms taking part in the trials are kept secret , and their milk is fed into the public supply . |
| 10 | On Oct. 25 France announced the suspension of aid , and the last French troops were withdrawn on Oct. 30 in spite of calls from the opposition for them to remain to prevent more killing . |
| 11 | For example , the chairman of Welsh Water stated recently that , in spite of assurances from the Drinking Water Inspectorate concerning the safety of fluoridation plant designed according to the Department of Environment 's code of practice , his company would not continue fluoridation on Anglesey or extend fluoridation into the rest of Wales unless required to do so by the secretary of state . |
| 12 | In spite of unrest in the Ivory Coast in September , prices remained at around £700 a tonne , where they struggled to remain until December . |
| 13 | The Home Secretary will not reopen the Birmingham Six pub bombings case in spite of pleas by the city 's leading churchmen . |
| 14 | But he said he could not consider calls for an open sheriff 's inquiry , in spite of pleas by the islands ' MP , Jim Wallace , Shetland Islands Council , and the petitioners . |
| 15 | This northern land was to remain in Gloucester 's possession for the rest of his life , in spite of disputes over the descent of the rest of the Warwick inheritance , and formed the centrepiece of his influence in the north . |
| 16 | This northern land was to remain in Gloucester 's possession for the rest of his life , in spite of disputes over the descent of the rest of the Warwick inheritance , and formed the centrepiece of his influence in the north . |
| 17 | In spite of denials from the managers of the so-called " Acid Music Houses " , that the name has no relation to LSD or Ecstasy ( the new similar drug to LSD originating in the USA ) , the police and drugs councillors are very disturbed about this latest dangerous trend . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | THE HOME OFFICE is pressing ahead with the deportation of a Kurdish refugee , in spite of protests from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees that his life could be in danger if he returns to Turkey . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As expected , the Labour administration pushed through the rises in spite of opposition from the Tory and Scottish National Party groups . |
| 23 | In spite of representations to the Eve Committee in 1967 , the pressure for a separate Building Surveying Division had not been sufficient . |
| 24 | A resolution was passed condemning direct action as a means of bringing about the Social Democratic Commonwealth , while the importance of support for the cooperative movement was recognised in spite of doubts on the advisability of its political involvement . |
| 25 | BRITISH Satellite Broadcasting has launched into the market for satellite communications , in spite of delays in the arrival of its television service . |
| 26 | But in spite of tragedy around the " first war " , the years were very happy ones at home . |