Example sentences of "fact that [pron] have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last Simon Star we reported how excited we are about the fact that we 've been able to start the work . |
| 2 | The number of neutrons was not enough to account for all the heat ( a fact that they had been aware . |
| 3 | The fact that he had been unaware that there was a problem at all , and that people had grievances they felt unable to air to him privately , was , perhaps , a measure of him losing touch since moving office to the houseboat . |
| 4 | The maid would have to be dismissed of course … the girl had brazenly admitted allowing Patrick back into the house , and Katherine was n't sure which annoyed her more — the fact that the boy had managed to creep back into the house or the fact that he had been alone in the girl 's bedroom . |
| 5 | The fact that he had been able to make the journey across the Atlantic meant that life was at last reverting to its customary shape . |
| 6 | Despite the fact that he has been involved in more intimidating tackles than most professionals of his generation , he thinks a line has to be drawn between hard edged professionalism and pathological violence . |
| 7 | The fact that it has been necessary so many times over the years to attempt interventions to halt conflict and define stretches of frontier invites an explanation . |
| 8 | It was going to help me , with what I had in mind , the fact that I 'd been able to wise him up on that . |
| 9 | ‘ Leonora , does the fact that I 've been married before put you off the thought of becoming my wife ? ’ |
| 10 | It is worth stressing that Hume 's argument does not attempt to derive a sceptical conclusion from the fact that I might be wrong ( as in a way the first argument does ) nor from the fact that I have been wrong ( as the second argument does ) . |
| 11 | The fact that you have been able to spend your whole time on the core of the question is itself some indication that the question was not intended to have any wider scope . |
| 12 | Money Lucky Jupiter and materialistic Venus ensure that you stay afloat financially , despite the fact that you have been careless with cash recently . |
| 13 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to actually damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding , corporate statements can evidence the fact that there have been poor profits during all these years … |
| 14 | Apart from the fact that there has been significant support for the alliance party over the last dozen years or so among the catholic middle classes , there is also a further factor . |
| 15 | I did , despite the fact that she had been unfaithful . |