"In spite of the fact that" --> replace with "in spite of" or "though" or "although" or "despite" ... The change takes the following pattern: "In spite of the fact that he needed the money..." becomes "Despite his needing the money..." or "Despite his having needed the money...";
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(KudoZ) English translation of but: although, even though, in spite of the fact [conjunction - Linguistics (Art/Literary)]. ... English translation: although, even though, in spite of the fact...
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@MISC{Have_inspite, author = {Phonemes Have and Intro Uction}, title = {In spite of the fact that speech exhibits features that cannot be represented by a first-order Markov model, Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) of speech units}, year = {};
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33 Responses to “MINNESOTA MONITOR SHOCK ATTACK ON SENATOR MCCAIN: LIBERAL BLOG MOCKS MCCAIN OVER HIS DENTAL WORK IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT MCCAIN HAD MANY OF HIS TEETH BROKEN WHILE BEING TORTURED AS P.O.W.”...
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1900 The faith of Abraham is that, in spite of the fact that his life is best described by the most horrible pathetic laugh, he still believed in gentle existence.
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In spite of the fact that the investigation of the relationship of these two factors would be very important, there is still hardly any research done on this topic. It can be assumed that mastery motivation has a significant role in the acquisition and mastery of social abilities.
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In spite of a decline in terms of world impact, France is today This was even more obvious at the beginning of the nineteenth century, just after the Napoleonic wars and the Revolution of 1789. This privileged position accounts for the fact that France was the first country of continental Europe where Baptists developed,
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs ... Given the nature of Greek-Turkish relations, his presence on greek soil would have charged the heavy Greek-Turkish agenda with a potentially explosive issue. ... Confronted with the fait accompli of the presence of Mr. Ocalan, the Greek government proceeded to convince him to leave Greece...
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To add to the discussion: in spite of is a multi-word preposition. Many times, we can use shorter expressions to say the same thing. For example, in the example lsujang provided, we could simply replace in spite of the fact that with althou...
http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/13364-spi...
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