Example sentences of "[modal v] be [verb] by the fact " in BNC.
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| 1 | A university education should be characterised by the fact that one ‘ learns to learn ’ rather than ‘ learns by being taught ’ . |
| 2 | When he finally named seven people he was told he should be comforted by the fact that all of them were already under subpoena to appear . |
| 3 | Recruitment should be helped by the fact that it is an existing group . |
| 4 | If all goes to plan , this handbook will be the most comprehensive publication produced by the funeral industry ( in terms of content , distribution and public sector awareness ) and National Council members should be encouraged by the fact that , despite an NAFD launch , it is very much a BIE production . |
| 5 | This is a pleasantly worded and , no doubt , sincere statement , but must be balanced by the fact that Walter Henry was recording attendances in excess of 250 each Sunday in the parish church . |
| 6 | This might be explained by the fact that the former category are not the direct employees of the establishment and that their terms and conditions of employment are less subject to regulation by unions . |
| 7 | It might be explained by the fact that the toxin is effective from the luminal side and binds irreversibly to a particular membrane receptor . |
| 8 | The fanciful style of the gaol might be explained by the fact that the man who paid for it , Lord Cobham , was also the man who had the biggest collection of follies in the country in the grounds of his nearby estate , Stowe , including a gothic folly . |
| 9 | KLM 's share of the $3.65bn buyout is considerably smaller than BA 's $750m participation in United , but some analysts have suggested regulators might be swayed by the fact that the airline 's staff will control the company . |
| 10 | The affinity between France and England at this time could be illustrated by the fact that the diplomatic representatives of both kingdoms studied at Paris . |
| 11 | Part of the additional cost could be explained by the fact that UPH had not got enough cash to make the purchase . |
| 12 | However , some of these could be explained by the fact that the temporary workers were also part-timers ( who were , in any case , excluded from particular benefits ) , or that certain benefits were available only to workers with a minimum service record . |
| 13 | This discrepancy could be explained by the fact that these studies were of poor design , with insufficient power to detect changes in mortality . |
| 14 | Development at Scott Lithgow could be hampered by the fact that it lies on unimproved land outside the Inverclyde Enterprise Zone . |
| 15 | The stranger to calligraphy may be struck by the fact that none of these cards displays the florid illumination characteristic of the 15th century Books of Hours made so familiar to us by countless commercial reproductions on christmas cards advertised widely in small format ‘ gift ’ catalogues . |
| 16 | The more isolated character of Kursk guberniia may be illustrated by the fact that the whole province contained only 595 arteli . |
| 17 | Or to provide development capital where your expansion may be limited by the fact that you are nearing the limit of what you can raise by other conventional means . |
| 18 | Such a bias may be reinforced by the fact that those who are deaf in the 45–50 age range are less likely than their fellows to survive to the following age group ( because the deafness is related to some general malady or because hearing deficiency increases their risk of fatal accident ) . |
| 19 | This is probably so , but may be offset by the fact that the fields are left to the birds more quickly , enabling subsequent broods to be reared undisturbed . |
| 20 | This contract may be strengthened by the fact that deregulation now permits the use of futures and options by pension funds and unit trusts , and also by recent changes in the tax regime as regards profits from derivative trading . |
| 21 | Everyone who subsequently learned of this action condemned it as utterly stupid and irresponsible , but perhaps such criticism may be tempered by the fact that the man was in a deep state of shock . |
| 22 | PLANS to make a sequel to the charming Mystic Pizza may be foiled by the fact that , since making the original , Julia Robers ' asking price has leapt to $2 million |
| 23 | In the libraries of schools and higher education , user education may be justified by the fact that the library is just one department within an educational institution and thus user education is just one part of the educational process . |
| 24 | Parents may be motivated by the fact that a child whose father or mother smokes is far more likely to smoke too . |
| 25 | Conflicts between individual and organizational goals , made manifest in the discretion delegated to many categories of public officials in the interpretation of regulations and statutes , may be exacerbated by the fact that large organizations may have multiple objectives leading to goal conflict . |
| 26 | I suggest that the discrepancy between the climate modelling results which indicate seasonal temperature extremes , and the increasing body of geological information documenting a temperate climate , may be explained by the fact that the palaeogeography used in the models does not take into account the existence of these lakes and rivers , which would have had a major influence on the regional climate . |
| 27 | The observation of a less noticeable stimulatory response to neuropeptide Y in the rat than in the dog may be explained by the fact that these rats were anaesthetised with urethane which is known to cause release of somatostatin — a known universal inhibitor of gut secretions . |
| 28 | The difference between the studies may be explained by the fact that we adopted more stringent criteria for assessing H pylori state and also assessed gastric function only in H pylori negative patients with DU who had no other explanation for their ulcer disease . |
| 29 | This may be explained by the fact that more hydrogen was used in a metabolism other than methanogenesis in these subjects even on the basal diet . |
| 30 | This may be explained by the fact that the increased basal acid output in duodenal ulcer patients was due to their combination of increased basal gastrin and exaggerated acid response to gastrin . |