Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] for the fact [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was some compensation for the fact that she was almost certainly no better at the piano . |
| 2 | So they 're saying this is an ex gratia payment in other words they 're offering you that payment as er some compensation for the fact that you 've losing your job . |
| 3 | Both bodies must take some credit for the fact that dissatisfaction with a finished product is rare , and refusal to pay unheard of . |
| 4 | Earlier in the day Kaifu had made an unprecedentedly explicit apology to Roh , expressing his " sincere remorse and honest apologies for the fact that there was a period in our history in which Japanese actions inflicted unbearable suffering and sorrow on the people of the Korean peninsula " . |
| 5 | There was , presumably , a sound evolutionary reason for the fact that no one had yet designed a lavatory in which the occupant faced away from the door , some relic of the time when primitive man was most at risk when at stool , but it did mean that the lavatory user was finely tuned to the approach of strangers . |
| 6 | I am saying that we are confronted , beneath a language which is often common to both parties , with two competing moral philosophies , and that the language of partnership is a mirage , a deliberate and partisan disguise for the fact that one of those philosophies holds power while the other comes from beneath the underdog . |
| 7 | The University appears , then , to have great admiration for the fact that , among other things , Caspar Weinberger : a ) supported the Contra rebels in a war which led to the deaths of some 30,000 Nicaraguans and which was declared illegal by the International Court of Justice . |
| 8 | There will be a great welcome for the fact that there will be discussions with Richard Green and others who have kept Rathlin linked to the main part of Northern Ireland all these years . |
| 9 | Does my hon. Friend agree that all those involved in the work on the power station , many of whom are constituents of mine , deserve great credit for the fact that it is proceeding so well ? |
| 10 | Kirton , though , achieved rather more fame for the fact that he took his own lemons to Athletic park when they did not have the appropriate fruit to go with his gin-and-tonics , and that he watched the game from the in-goal area , puffing on a cigar with a long checked scarf around his neck . |
| 11 | Baker expressed grave concern at the Bootle killing and attacked various institutions for the fact that society has become more violent and selfish . |
| 12 | Er the only reason for the fact that we we did n't have a tragedy is that the population in the in those areas is very sparse . |
| 13 | First , its impulse is highly authoritarian : its only explanation for the fact that tens , probably hundreds of thousands of women choose to go swimming or do aerobics is that are suffering from ‘ false consciousness ’ : ‘ They 're all wrong , they must change , and here 's why . ’ |
| 14 | At the Appeal today , Lord Lane said dabbling in heroin is dabbling in potential death , but Clarke , a machinist from Malvern , was not given enough credit for the fact that he had pleaded guilty . |
| 15 | He pulls one of those ‘ I-am-about-to-explode-in-front-of-your-very-eyes ’ faces , which we might as well assume is actually a crazy cover-up for the fact that he really means what he says . |
| 16 | Yes , can I bring this argument a bit closer to home and talk about the sexual division of labour within the family , which I think is one of the underlying causes of discrimination against women , and that 's really just a fancy term for the fact that when we talk about child care women do most of the work and men do very little , and really I do n't think we can look at the position of women without looking at how , in fact , child care and caring is organized within the family . |