Example sentences of "fact that it [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The United Kingdom argued that there was nothing in the manner of its introduction , or in the fact that it affected the Anglo-Spanish vessels , that made the Act of 1988 incompatible with Community law . |
2 | The curious nature of the Bar would matter less were it not for the fact that it supplies the vast majority of judges . |
3 | Will the Secretary of State concede that one of the things that this will enable Yarrow to do is to keep its essential design capability , illustrated by the fact that it produced the first of class ? |
4 | Universal , who had advanced him the $850,000 were even prepared for the fact that it challenged the American Dream and attacked American society for ‘ destroying itself ’ , told through its hero — played by Dennis — who is a Hollywood stunt man devoured by his quest for big cars , swimming pools and gorgeous girls . |
5 | Economic proposals by big-city mayors have the newslife of an earthquake in Chile , but this does n't alter the fact that it remains the only substantive programme . |
6 | Apart from the fact that it avoids the above dilemmas , by claiming only the narrowest scope for semantics , such a theory recommends itself to the pragmaticist for the following reasons . |
7 | In the campaign to save the tiger , the Fund certainly played its part , greatly helped by the fact that it enjoyed the wholehearted support of the leader of the country most involved . |
8 | e.g. to generalize about the significance of an event : " The basic weakness of the Treaty ( of Versailles ) lay in the fact that it left the German people in a frame of mind not conducive to a lasting peace . |