Example sentences of "the [noun] for the fact [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chancellor and the Prime Minister are patting themselves on the back for the fact that they have managed to reduce British inflation rates to something like the German levels , but there is a difference between the two . |
| 2 | However , as some of the non-payers are members of the Labour party and are his colleagues on the Opposition Benches , how can he blame the Government for the fact that people have decided of their own free will not to pay a tax ? |
| 3 | Again , a clearer indication of what the right sentence in the Crown Court would have been without the discount for the fact that the case was a reference would make the decision more useful . |
| 4 | By the early nineteenth century even an Anglican clergyman was prepared to give credit to the Methodists for the fact that in Cornwall there were no more " desperate wrestling matches … and inhuman cockfights " and fewer " riotous revellings " . |
| 5 | Here it is reported that in cities whole neighbourhoods illegally tap overhead lines , part of the reason for the fact that some 40% of gross energy output disappears and revenue always lags well behind billings . |