Example sentences of "fact that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the Prime Minister realise that there are only two facts that one needs to know to assess the Government 's real commitment to recovery ? |
| 2 | Add to this the facts that each chief executive has only limited authority over many of his staff and that much of the finance of this complex body is handled by a separate company accountable to Parliament , and it might well be enough to make Lord Hanson heave or Tiny Rowland throw in the towel . |
| 3 | A gratified chairman of the England Committee registers his pleasure at the result and for the facts that good sportsmanship prevailed and England fielded some young players successfully . |
| 4 | If there is a similarity between mental events and the given dispositional facts that both enter into the explanation of behaviour-that is no sufficient reason for blurring the distinction between them , for etherealizing the dispositional facts . |
| 5 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 6 | These results and the good overall survival of the low grade and mixed grade groups underline the facts that most of these patients had localised disease , that after achieving complete remission most patients are cured , and that surgery can be a definitive treatment . |
| 7 | From the early 1870s discussion of provision for the poor was influenced by the new facts that some of them had deserved the vote and that the economy faced certain difficulties . |
| 8 | Organised by the Aspen Institute in Italy , the meeting considered the facts that some 120 coastal cities discharge their sewage into the Mediterranean , around 85 per cent of it untreated . |
| 9 | The reasons adduced by Hare include the facts that fluvial processes tend to be dominated by extreme events rather than balance relationships , so that stochastic methods and extreme-value theory are closer to the reality of geomorphic processes than is energy-balance climatology ; and that the geomorphic time scale is longer than that utilized by the climatologist . |
| 10 | My belief that all men are mortal is caused , but not by the fact that all men are mortal ; if any facts cause it , they are the facts that this man , that man , etc. , have died . |
| 11 | The standing of the statement needs initially to be determined and it may be elevated to the rank of contractual term if the courts consider on the facts that this was the intention of the parties . |
| 12 | Hence the fact that single-brand ski/boot/binding systems are imminent from Atomic , Tyrolia and Rossignol . |
| 13 | It should be noted , however , that the sharp rise of the " J " shaped curve at the older childbearing ages is probably due also to the fact that socio-economic considerations and the large family size already achieved by the mid-thirties may influence women in the older reproductive ages to resort to induced abortions . |
| 14 | This requires action taken by a trade union to be supported by a majority in a secret ballot of all those reasonably expected to take part in the action , and in view of the practicalities of organising a ballot and the fact that advance approval of action is valid for only four weeks puts a serious constraint upon the taking of effective action even where that has overwhelming support . |
| 15 | When Secretary of State Marshall was cabling the Embassy in Paris that Ho Chi Minh had direct Communist connections — whether or not this was a fact depends upon what one means by ‘ connection ’ — he argued that it was also a fact that colonial empires , in the l9th-century sense , were rapidly becoming a thing of the past . |
| 16 | The emotional complexity of the debate was deepened by the fact that neither side had the monopoly of logic or charm : Dr Colin Blakemore , though known as ‘ Dr Frankenstein' to the yellow press for having experimented on animals ’ eyes , seemed reasonable , persuasive and put-upon ; Douglas Hogg , MP , also on the vivisectionist side , was quite startlingly and pointlessly rude . |
| 17 | A brave attempt , but ruined by the fact that neither of the elements are really up to much . |
| 18 | The incident was made all the more galling by the fact that neither climber had broken an axe of crampon in 27 years of combined mountaineering experience ! |
| 19 | This stems from the fact that neither form has the advantage of being a separate legal entity ; thus the debts of the business are the debts of the people who own that business . |
| 20 | Their closeness was less due to their nearness in age — though with only eighteen months between them it had been easy for them to grow up with similar interests and shared confidences — than to the fact that neither of their parents had ever made much of them . |
| 21 | Unlike previous years , however , the significance of the Iowa contests was reduced by the fact that neither of Bush 's two challengers ( Buchanan and former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke ) contested the caucus , whilst amongst the Democrats it had long been accepted that the contest would be won by Tom Harkin , one of the state 's representatives in the Senate , and so there had been a minimal amount of campaigning . |
| 22 | The fact that unhappy feelings are pushed away with food is an avoidance style of coping with stress . |
| 23 | These phases and the difficulties of separating them reflect the fact that mental processes are not subject to clearly defined distinctions and boundaries . |
| 24 | We can not afford to ignore the fact that mental illness is culturally patterned , and even goes in fashions . |
| 25 | In 1968 the secretary of state drew attention to the fact that mental hospital services were ‘ lagging behind ’ the modern approach of DGH psychiatric departments and local authority community services . |
| 26 | However , the longevity of the Republic , the material rewards it had provided to the German people and the fact that Eastern Europeans hoped to emulate West German success in future , suggested that Bonn would act to promote , not threaten , democracy across Europe in the 1990s . |
| 27 | We often justify the fact that routinely-collected information is seldom used by saying that it is unreliable . |
| 28 | Concern was also focused on the fact that Ringaskiddy school was within 400 yards of the planned asbestos dump site . |
| 29 | This exclusion of higher education from consideration by sociologists of education must in part be due to the fact that higher education is not compulsory ; it is perhaps difficult to argue that something which is a matter of choice can in any sense be repressive . |
| 30 | It should be stressed that similar conclusions to those of figure 7.4 hold when comparisons are made within a particular social class to control for the fact that higher social classes are both more likely to marry late and to be owner-occupiers . |