Example sentences of "that despite [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is so interesting is that despite that disastrous performance , Labour 's policies have hardly altered — and they would have the same effect again . |
| 2 | Should you find that despite all this you do occasionally eat too much , try to take extra exercise , the occasional long walk at least , to work it off . |
| 3 | We are still left with the dilemma that despite all the potential sophistication , the lymphocytes actually in the infection seem to be there using up energy for the sake of using up energy — like cars stuck in a traffic jam with their engines racing . |
| 4 | Heather played the pacifist role , pointing out that despite all the litter and dead sheep it was quite a nice campsite . |
| 5 | Looking back over our century one can not help feeling that despite all the research , the new drugs and the improved surgical techniques , to say nothing of the introduction of health services in many western countries , the health of our societies has declined rather than improved . |
| 6 | ‘ The most striking thing is that despite all the talk there is still not much clothing around yet . |
| 7 | Gavyn Davies , head of investment research at Goldman Sachs in London , finds that despite all the labour-market reforms , and given the recent level of unemployment , there is no evidence that wage growth is intrinsically more moderate than in the past . |
| 8 | It 's truly gratifying to see that despite all this talk of reorganisation Big Blue is still willing to eat its own children . |
| 9 | the wage system is fundamental to capitalist society , so that despite all the disadvantages of wage work , the way forward must be through furthering the process of proletarianisation of women and rescuing women from preproletarian dependence . |
| 10 | All I can say is that the yes of God 's love is stronger than the no of his judgment and that I do believe that despite all the shadows and elements of chaos in the world , in the universe and in life , God 's love is stronger and he is a God of love . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He liked marriage so much that despite all the difficulties of his first attempt , when he met you he decided to try it again . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Greek tragedy , like all true tragedy , leaves its audience with the feeling that despite all superficial changes , " life is at bottom indestructibly joyful and powerful " . |
| 15 | The problem is that despite all the well-intentioned efforts of those who have devised the various syllabuses , whether for the old CSE/ ‘ O ’ levels or the new GCSE , what can be accurately assessed may only represent a small part of what arts education is all about . |
| 16 | The poet comes to the conclusion that despite all the life which is slowly drifting away there is one thing which is undying , and that is her ‘ love ’ for him . |
| 17 | UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar said in his speech that despite all the tensions of the world , the UN had undertaken 18 peacekeeping operations since 1948 , five in the last decade alone , and had been asked to resolve conflicts in Cambodia , El Salvador and Western Sahara . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You know when I talk to friends they tell me that despite all my big race wins I have still been virtually ignored by the public who seem unaware most of the time that I am around . |
| 20 | Joe Kinnear , the Wimbledon manager , was concerned that despite such a list of absentees Liverpool might be even more dangerous . |
| 21 | The initial study found that despite such state investment , the area was still dominated by large landlords leasing land to sharecroppers and charging high rents . |
| 22 | It would be nice to write that despite these lapses of judgment , not to mention the occasional maladministration , investors and other stakeholders in business do not have to worry because of the safety superstructure which has been built since . |
| 23 | Also it is disappointing that despite these improvements in performance we still do not understand properly the physics of thermal insulation and we did not expect that increased density ( up to the limit when particle collisions take over ) would have quite the favourable effect that we have found in many machines . |
| 24 | It is remarkable therefore that despite these two biases we still found a twofold difference . |
| 25 | What the lectures at the Royal Institution seem to indicate is that despite these changes the age of ‘ two cultures ’ was still some way off ; at the elite level , those interested in the advance of science also wanted to hear about other cultural activity . |
| 26 | However , it is fair to say that despite these distinctive efforts , and one reason why such people are now regarded as classical contributors , for most within the early social survey tradition the divide seemed unbridgeable or irrelevant . |
| 27 | However , it must be remembered that despite these minimal gains , labour lost all of its institutional rights , the right to organise , freedom of movement , the right of collective bargaining , and freedom of vocational choice . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | But Elaine says that despite this help , she might as well be in an institution . |
| 30 | Rather breathlessly , he told her that despite this , no one and nothing could take from them what had been . |