Example sentences of "fact that [pers pn] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I usually travel with an assistant from my management company and she does the same so we look a fine pair , both of us sitting there with dozens of jars in front of us , but it does the trick ; it takes my mind off the fact that we are 30,000 feet in the air at the time .
2 You can not evade the fact that we are cultural Americans , dreaming American dreams . ’
3 Under the present regime , where differential pricing is forbidden , big tied agents like the Halifax , Nationwide and Leeds Permanent — taking advantage of the fact that they are powerful distribution channels with ‘ hot client bases ’ — have pushed up the commissions they receive from the life offices to which they are tied to huge levels .
4 They argue that the differential in living standards between the two groups is minimal and to see this as social mobility is to detract attention from the important fact that they are all part of the large urban poor whose poverty is due to the wider social formation and , in particular , the capitalist mode of production .
5 But one of their biggest problems is the fact that they are all children .
6 the mere fact that they are appointed executor does not of itself increase the size of the bill .
7 There are to be different banding systems for Scotland , Wales and England to take account of the fact that they are separate nations .
8 Weber gives as reasons for this power position of the bureaucratic and political elites their possession of the means of administration and the fact that they are small groups which can easily reach agreement upon any action necessary to maintain their power .
9 And secondly the fact that it was n't in the budget erm and the fact that they 're late means that we 're not also realizing the productivity in other areas that we had anticipated so we 're gon na be some six months late coming in .
10 Back in the early '60s , that 's how Shelby contrived it , and although the majority of Cobras were road cars , that does n't alter the fact that they 're all racers under the skin .
11 And even today hut sections can still be bought and despite the fact that they 're forty years old the quality of the wood in them is often better than what you can buy today .
12 And here we 've got a couple that happen to be olive trees , and I , I 'm not so sure that just the fact that they 're olive trees really is that important .
13 He paid a brief homage to the Gnomes , who had journeyed all the way from the Gallan Mountains to bring their ideas for the new Queen 's Crown Jewels and did not refer to the fact that they were four days late on account of getting lost on the way .
14 yeah I mean , and the trouble is what n annoys me more than anything is the fact that he 's good worker I me even when he 's drunk , alright he do n't work at full capacity but he does sort of almost as much as what they do and when he 's
15 Gordon Brown , who has been squeezed out of the leadership race by Smith ( although he is said to be consoled by the fact that he is ten years younger and can wait a generation ) will have an important contribution to make .
16 As usual , much was made of the fact that he was younger brother to the wildly successful Peregrine , now in Japan on tour with his group .
17 ‘ It 's just a small celebration in honour of the fact that it 's six years to the day tomorrow since Filippo and I met — ’ She broke off and giggled .
18 It 's something both they and lesbians have always been blamed for , despite the now well-publicized fact that it is heterosexual men who commit by far the most assaults on boys , as well as girls .
19 What makes The Rape so durably haunting is not its ( rather banal ) conceit of a woman viewed literally as a sex object , but the fact that it is that woman with that neck and that terrifying and terrified hair .
20 A two year old car which is essential for the business — The fact that it is essential for the business would seem to rule out NRV whilst the fact that it is two years old would suggest that original cost is inappropriate .
21 The fact that it is underrepresented highlights the need to draw translators ' attention to it .
22 It can be argued that for a second chamber , whose main functions are the consideration of less controversial Bills and the revision of other Bills from the other place without , however , power finally to frustrate the will of the democratically-elected chamber , ( as is now the case with the House of Lords , see below , pp.98–9 ) the fact that it is undemocratic matters little , provided that it is competent to do the job expected of it .
23 ‘ It has proved reliable , and the fact that it is four-wheel drive is very handy if you 're coping with a greasy slipway or launching off a beach , ’ says Peaks .
24 Others questioned the fact that it is unskilled jobs that are disappearing and suggested that workers are , in general , being deskilled in manufacturing industry .
25 The answer lies in the fact that it was this part of the state apparatus that was dominant under colonialism and freed from political control by the metropolitan power at independence .
26 ‘ And here it is convenient to refer pointedly to the fact that it is Mr. Matthey , the original lessee , and not the Richardson executors , his assignees , who is defendant to the action and respondent on this appeal , as well as to the further fact that it was these executors , and not Mr. Matthey , who were the real and only actors in the matters to which I have just been referring .
27 Mind you , he was also daunted by the fact that I was some years his senior .
28 Erm , that sounds very persuasive to all of us nowadays and I fully believe it , that part of what makes me me is in fact er the fact that I 'm this shape and this size
29 Secondly Chairman I would like to draw the Councillors ' attention to the fact that I 'm this years representative on the South East Waste Regulation Advisory Committee and we have indeed got in hand a project which is to look at the whole of the recycling and the priorities for the South East region and I would imagine that by the time our officers have reported back to this Authority that they will have an advantage of having access to that report .
30 college is adult education , and the fact that you 're all adults the relationship between you and the lecturers is not the same between you and teachers .
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