Example sentences of "[noun] than [art] fact " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , therefore , all the more depressing for the Taylors to find colour more of a front-page issue than the fact that John raised nearly £1 million for Cheltenham 's unemployed and for local crime prevention . |
| 2 | If , as the Department of Health survey reveals , most Brits are monogamous , it has less to do with morality than the fact that they believe a sexual partner is someone who helps you change the duvet . |
| 3 | Meantime , what better case could there be for staging the Germany game at a time of fixture congestion than the fact that 10,000 youngsters , who watched the tie against Malta free of charge , have paid £1 a head to return to Ibrox on Wednesday . |
| 4 | Callinicos , defence of Marxism is erudite and compelling , and the fact that he runs out of steam over post-war art is of less moment than the fact that he takes the range of issues seriously enough to discuss them at all . |
| 5 | It was less a matter of some technical revelation than the fact that , after a difficult first 18 months with Zachary , this once fiery soul learned to put things into perspective . |
| 6 | This referred less to the irreligious habits of the people than the fact that the village as yet contained no place of worship , for Wesley went on to say that when he began his service ( probably at a spot near the present Ulster Bank and using a mounting block as his pulpit ) ‘ the people gathered form all sides and , when I prayed , kneeled down upon the stones , rich and poor , all round me ’ . |
| 7 | There is no better example than the fact that every Labour Government since the war have increased unemployment . |
| 8 | Clearly Study 2 differs from Study 1 in many more ways than the fact that subjects were not actually driving — the range of situations used was dramatically different , individual junctions were repeated , there was no obvious navigational context , and so on . |
| 9 | Once re-investigation becomes routine , the fact that a case has been referred for re-investigation should attract no more concern than the fact that a medical diagnosis has been subjected to the test of a second opinion . |
| 10 | It is doubtful if the claim of the kings of Burgundy and Italy to bear the title emperor had more substance than the fact that they held the north of Italy and the chief routes over the Alps and were therefore in a position to put pressure on the pope . |
| 11 | The art of management , however , was more than the successful bribery of fifty per cent plus one , if for no other reason than the fact that there was never enough of the articles of bribery to employ it on such a scale , even if the voters had been willing to be so bought . |
| 12 | However , on our continent , on the doorstep of the most civilised part of the world , we are watching human beings killing each other for no other reason than the fact that they live next door to each other . |
| 13 | You may indeed deserve to lose your wife , your job , your friends — naturally it is easier to accept the power of the curse than the fact of your own selfishness , unlikeability , destructive bad temper and so forth . |
| 14 | But the Germany-aloof thesis remains , so far , more a plausible presumption than a fact . |