Example sentences of "[adj] that despite " in BNC.
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| 1 | One is led to conclude from all this that despite some tactical ‘ victories ’ here and there , the British point of view with respect to policy in the EEC has not on the whole prevailed , any more than has its influence over the development of the institutional framework of the Community . |
| 2 | Though Labour joined with the Conservatives in May 1940 to fight the Second World War , under Churchill 's leadership , it is clear that despite the almost obsessive concern of the public about the threat of European fascism it was only the Labour Party , slow and cumbersome in its rate of change , which actually squared up to the necessity of facing fascism with military sanctions if necessary . |
| 3 | Another typical resistance is met when it becomes clear that despite everything that is being achieved in terms of family understanding and awareness , individuals are sticking rigidly to old patterns of interaction and behaviour . |
| 4 | For it is quite clear that despite innovative legislation , the proliferation of enforcement agencies , the relatively new use of imprisonment for corporate offenders , and absolutely ( but not relatively ) large fines for offending corporations , there has not been a substantial brake on corporate crime . |
| 5 | But in a few more months , Joyce wrote his apologia and made it clear that despite their apparent freedom of choice , there was in reality only one decision that he could have taken : |
| 6 | It is now all too clear that despite US occupation of Southern Korea the Russians have intended to impose a united front policy throughout the country … |
| 7 | It is clear that despite the package of protective designations and institutions created since 1945 , there has been a net decline in the quality of the Welsh countryside and the wider environment for the reasons given . |
| 8 | It is clear that despite the continuing success and positive feedback from the Programme the difficulties of organisation hinder a much better sharing between the Regions . |
| 9 | However it began to be clear that despite our good possession we were short on attacks . |
| 10 | Yet it is clear that despite this apparent failure of cooperation , we try to interpret B's utterance as nevertheless cooperative at some deeper ( non-superficial ) level . |
| 11 | And he made clear that despite the government 's small majority , they would be prepared to take difficult decisions about how to reduce the enormous government deficit . |
| 12 | The biggest shock in the new round of cuts is that IBM 's forecasting last year was so abysmal that despite the fact that 40,000 people will have left by the end of the year where it was only counting on shedding 20,000 , it still has to make more cuts . |
| 13 | It is interesting that despite this some writers are still prepared nevertheless to claim Foucault as a Marxist — perhaps less an indication of his Marxism than of his discursive power and the lack of alternatives within Marxism today . |
| 14 | It 's interesting that despite all that 's been said about migration and I 'll come back to it , but we actually start , the county and ourselves , from the same point , more or less , within about four four dwelling I think . |
| 15 | It is always possible that despite all the behaviour there are actually no sensations going on there at all , or at least different ones from those we imagine . |
| 16 | You must be especially proud today , because she liked you so much that despite all the difficulties of her first marriage , when she met you she decided to try it again . |
| 17 | But he said ’ The offence with which you are charged is so serious that despite your personal mitigating factors a non-custodial sentence can not be justified . ’ |
| 18 | Tillett was convinced that despite its attempts to mediate , the government had been helping the employers . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , it is remarkable that despite administrative differences , the problems facing residential care in Flanders and the Netherlands and the recent changes in policy are very similar to those found in the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | lt is remarkable that despite these low numbers of species , little is known of their biology and one , the sebastiao-de-arruda , a well-known timber export from Brazil since the last century , has only lately ( 1978 ) been botanically identified and given a Latin name : Dalbergia decipularis ( Leguminosae ) . |
| 21 | But in the early postwar years its import surplus was so large that despite expanded gold exports it was a net drawer on the sterling pool , until it left the pool at the end of 1947 . |
| 22 | It is curious that despite frequent allusion to man-environment relations by geographers , they largely chose to ignore the signposts that were evident from the mid nineteenth century onwards and physical geography proceeded largely in isolation from the hand of man . |
| 23 | Joe Kinnear , the Wimbledon manager , was concerned that despite such a list of absentees Liverpool might be even more dangerous . |
| 24 | The earnest audience was concerned that despite the United Nations condemnation of torture in 1982 , it was now epidemic . |
| 25 | But it is also plain that despite sterling 's depreciation to a rate at which it might be reasonably competitive within the Exchange Rate Mechanism , Mrs Thatcher 's team are no more ready to sign on the dotted line than they were in Madrid this summer . |
| 26 | It is now probable that despite conservation measures — China budgeted $895 million on this in 1981 — there will be shortages until 1985/6 . |
| 27 | All three teachers were adamant that despite the lack of time for consultation , the lack of space and resources and other problems that had nothing to do with the curricular rationale behind the project , it had been a great success . |
| 28 | But Hughes is adamant that despite their glittering array of striking talent with himself , Ryan Giggs , Ian Rush and Dean Saunders in the side Wales are taking nothing for granted . |
| 29 | It is notable that despite Rogers 's High Anglicanism he worked harmoniously with the Congregationalist Stead and was actively involved with the interdenominational Browning Hall . |
| 30 | So it was not really surprising that despite his upwardly mobile outlook , Collor attended the paupers ' summit in June 1990 at which fifteen debtor nations from the underdeveloped South discussed their predicament . |