Example sentences of "[det] be despite " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is despite a tiny cellar which means deliveries are made up to five times a week . |
| 2 | This is despite WH Smith 's assertion that their actions damaged the ongoing business of Our Price . |
| 3 | This is despite the fact that they carry only a minority of the 13 stigmata of weediness . |
| 4 | This is despite the fact that its acreage of farmland is about the same as that of the United States , a nation that has become the world 's greatest grain exporter . |
| 5 | This is despite the fact that there are such programmes as Mastermind , a sheepdog series ( with which I happen to be involved — I declare my interest ) and superb epics by the Natural History Unit . |
| 6 | This is despite a perception by some respondents in both the OFT and AMERG surveys that the public needs to be better informed of the services and architect can offer . |
| 7 | This is despite the fact that the Tribunal is appointed by the Government ; that it has no real powers ; and that it is under a duty not to give published reasons for any decision it makes . |
| 8 | This is despite the fact that according to the law report the police officers did not know to which specific pits the pickets were travelling and that some of the evidence of violence on which the police officers relied was that which they had gathered from press and television reports . |
| 9 | This is despite efforts to increase indigenous oil production . |
| 10 | This is despite the considerable problems of the Synthetic Fuel Corporation . |
| 11 | This is despite considerable efforts to create innovative ways of developing teacher training in the post-independence period . |
| 12 | This is despite the great effort put into scanning for commercial information by their individual business units . |
| 13 | This is despite their repeated claims that the act , which tightens up rules on the safety inspection of large dams and calls for a national register of dams , was necessary . |
| 14 | This is despite the fact that the ships would , in war , have to sweep nuclear mines and operate from bases against which the Soviet Union would probably use nuclear bombs or missiles . |
| 15 | This is despite the obvious difficulties of devising experiments to test the effects of the substances on the performance of normal organisms rather than the cure of sick ones . |
| 16 | This is despite the fact that the government in China has total control over migration from the country into the towns , and immediately bulldozes any squatter settlements . |
| 17 | This is despite the fact that economic calculations are still carried out in ‘ prices ’ . |
| 18 | ( This is despite the birth of our new sister title , the superb Fishkeeping Answers now the clear number two in the market more than doubling the sales of any other rival ) . |
| 19 | This is despite the fact that the veto clause is standard in private companies and had existed within the client company Articles of Association since the incorporation in 1979 . |
| 20 | This is despite there being thousands of pieces of metalwork which have been cast in moulds . |
| 21 | This is despite a stinking row after the perfume industry cut off supplies to Superdrug for slashing scent prices by nearly a third . |
| 22 | This is despite the agreement made only two years ago that the list should be inflation-proof to the year 2,000 . |
| 23 | And this is despite Argos bombarding shoppers with a record 12.5 million catalogues . |
| 24 | This is despite the fact that around 40,000 visitors enter the Magic Kingdom daily to see Mickey and Co at a cost of £23 for adults and £15 for kids . |
| 25 | This is despite the near completion of a £70,000 five year project set up to save the paths . |
| 26 | This is despite the recommendation of a complaints review panel that his needs would best be met at Milton Heights , a Home Farm Trust home which charges £9,000 a year . |
| 27 | This is despite quoting statistics that present a much more favourable view of the Czechs . |
| 28 | This is despite the passing of a law in 1981 providing for many of the Italian reform components : general hospital wards , community mental health centres and procedures for linking the various sectors . |
| 29 | This is despite Plan for Action 's estimate of 2.8% and the Department of Health 's commitment to an expansion of only 2% a year . |
| 30 | This is despite the exhibition 's substantial sponsorship : The Daily Telegraph , Pearson plc and Reed International have underwritten the £2 million costs . |