Example sentences of "fact that [pron] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yes you mean the fact that they 've been in flower ? |
| 2 | To find a job he had to hide the fact that he had been in a mental hospital . |
| 3 | Interest and miscellaneous expenses were , however , quite a different matter , and the fact that it had been in the nature of his employment to disburse vast and unspecified amounts , as he put it , ‘ upon the simple word of the treasurer ’ , who had died in 1635 , did not help matters . |
| 4 | he said in spite of the fact that I 've been in parliament for longer than he has , which surprised me cos I would n't have thought so this is the young Winston Churchill of course so the Chinese man said to him erm oh well the reason for that was that he had a famous grandfather |
| 5 | But , can I say this that what mattered most to me was the fact that I have been in conversation with so many people and to be able to allow that conversation to affect my faith and a faith that I have to proclaim day by day and Sunday by Sunday from the pulpits of my church . |
| 6 | Never get bored with the fact that you 've been with someone for a long time , it 's a good thing , not a bad thing . |
| 7 | Despite the fact that there had been at least 350 murders in Haiti in the past year , Avril responded to the attack by claiming that emergency measures were necessary " to protect democratic accomplishments against terrorism " . |
| 8 | To conclude , the fact that there has been to date remarkably little progress towards an independent discipline of material culture is due , at least in part , to the particular history of that field within anthropology . |
| 9 | Harriet says it 's unusual for chess to make the front pages of the papers , in spite of the fact that she 's been on the front page of The Times . |