Example sentences of "fact that [adj] [noun] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Gravelle and Katz model then , there is scope for a potential improvement in performance to be induced by constraints on the firm , despite the fact that such constraints can lead to other distortions . |
| 2 | Despite this increase in size , and the fact that regional aid can contribute a significant input of resources to any particular area , it still remains the case that the extent of Community regional assistance is small , amounting to just 25 per cent of the total EC budget by 1992 . |
| 3 | This is why pre-retirement planning is sometimes known as ‘ mid-life planning ’ — an appropriate term in view of the fact that present-day retirement can span almost as many years as a working career . |
| 4 | The unsatisfactory policy of the GMC on advertising is further illustrated by the fact that general practitioners can include conventional allergy desensitisation as part of the services they advertise but an NHS hospital with consultants trained in allergic diseases can not . |
| 5 | But it is also a psychological fact that immediate satisfaction can lead to disgust . |
| 6 | The term proactive interference is used to refer to the fact that prior learning can interfere with the acquisition , retention , or use of new information . |
| 7 | The fact that different dowsers can get very different results on the same site can perhaps be explained as the interaction between their own energy field and the field of the site , so that the dowsing patterns found can only have true meaning by looking at the dowser as well . |
| 8 | But in view of the fact that different actuaries can come to different answers and Professor Good quotes one where a difference of half per cent gives rise to a difference of a hundred and sixty seven million . |
| 9 | Ullman 's work is premised on the phenomenological fact that human beings can experience apparent movement in several different ways . |
| 10 | But the fact that dominant classes can throw off liberal democracy when they do not wish to abide by the rules does not prove that those rules are themselves capitalist instruments . |
| 11 | Despite resistance of markets to novelty and indeed diversity and the fact that few mills can handle a diversity of timbers , the advent of techniques for pulping mixtures of species means that the diversity of the rain forest becomes less of a problem . |
| 12 | But , as we have just seen ( p. 127 ) , there are good reasons for thinking that the overt CR evoked by a CS for shock may fail to show context-specificity in spite of the fact that contextual cues can help the retrieval of associative information . |
| 13 | The fact that blind people can talk makes their world more accessible ; the fact that we can now begin to describe BSL makes it much more likely that we can get an effective picture of how sign language reflects the internal organisation of deaf people . |