Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [prep] the fact that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone trying to free a seated victim also has to cope with the fact that the faces sculpted on the chair start gibbering and screeching , radiating a Cause Cowardly Flight effect in a 3-yard radius . |
| 2 | No , the difficulty I have with Dennett 's excellent paper , and the reason I have brought it into discussion here , has to do with the fact that he never actually says which parts of the diagram are in consciousness and his view is consistent with consciousness being ( a ) the ‘ control box ’ , ( b ) sometimes one box and sometimes another ( very like the ‘ heterarchical aspect ’ of Minsky 's views , which I earlier called a ‘ pinball machine ’ theory of consciousness ) , or ( c ) some elements of what passed down the communication channels , that is to say , the lines between the boxes . |
| 3 | In terms of the example it has to do with the fact that if in the situation there existed only the one circumstance for the starting of the wipers , then , even if certain other events or conditions had occurred or existed , the wipers would not have started . |
| 4 | If it is claimed that reasons are needed for this verdict , which might be doubted , one has to do with the fact that we do not take all the causes of behaviour to be other behaviour . |
| 5 | One has to do with the fact that many theories in social science are not so much theories susceptible to straightforward empirical confirmation or refutation , but are more like points of view . |
| 6 | The proper scientist sees reality through a glass darkly — and believeth all facts , heareth all facts and seeth all facts , but still has to reckon with the fact that he is part of the experiment and may be seeing the reflection of his own opinions . |
| 7 | And meanwhile Greece has to reckon with the fact that Turkey , on the other side of the Aegean , is planning to lure exactly the same sort of middle-class tourist with exactly the same combination of sunshine , classical ruins and mildly exotic food — and , it must be added , with lower costs and beaches many of which are less in need of de-whiffing . |
| 8 | The area of special needs in further education/training has had to contend with the fact that it is but a very small part of a very much larger whole , and that the FE college and the training schemes are subject to the vagaries and constraints of the external environment . |
| 9 | At times the manager of nurses may have to object to the fact that the nursing consequences of such moves is unsupportable . |
| 10 | To revert to our example , we shall have to account for the fact that the predicate human , or rather the predicable " — is human " , unlike the predicable " — is a dragon " , has the capacity of being turned into a true proposition , and in order to do this , we shall have to make use of our original proposition , viz. that men do actually exist ( in the full-blooded sense of " exist " ) , and if so , nothing of any substance will have been accomplished by the attempted " reduction " . |
| 11 | Georgiana Greenwood may have been partly to blame , but it had to do with the fact that we really were n't running the conference out of the college . |
| 12 | It seems to me you have to start from the fact that your role in the community is to produce goods and services which people want . |
| 13 | But we now have to reckon with the fact that the peculiar essence of a human being is rationality , that is , each human essence is some particular form of rationality . |
| 14 | If you say that children are completely non-rational then you have to account for the fact that they become rational , and to do that it appears from these examples that you have to assume that they already are . |