Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] fact " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's hardly more noticeable than the fact that , as the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman likes to point out , the cinema audience is sitting in total darkness for 50 minutes of that time , while the projector beam is masked during the change of frame — the indispensable ‘ intermittent movement ’ of movie film as it goes through the projector 's gate . |
| 2 | Bainbridge has a lovely village green which was the setting for nothing more remarkable than the fact that I arrived there one day to walk over from Bainbridge to Cam Houses with Tony and Eddie , the landlord from my local pub , only to discover that I 'd left my walking boots back at home in Dentdale and had to do the entire walk in a pair of fur-lined cowboy boots , which earned me the nickname of Roy Rogers for the rest of the week . |
| 3 | Nothing is more politically reassuring than the fact that people have abandoned their former friends to join you . |
| 4 | That the new system generated little moral authority was less important than the fact that it gave many Sri Lankans access to the power of the state . |
| 5 | She declined to be interviewed for this article , saying that her role as a musician is more important than the fact she 's a woman . |
| 6 | That sport and , for that matter , entertainment may not be viable avenues from despair is less important than the fact that they were seen as such by groups who saw no alternatives . |
| 7 | The frequency of a particular kind of syntactic structure ( say a relative clause ) will probably be less important than the fact that that structure tends to occur in a particular position in the sentence ( eg at the end , or at the middle ) . |
| 8 | The existence of such systems is less important than the fact that they are technically feasible and get reported as such . |
| 9 | And certainly if you look at the case for very many women not in the job tops we 're talking about low paid work erm low rates of unionisation , very , very low rates of day care erm it 's those sorts of things that I 'm talking about , and for me those are very , very much more important than the fact that we 've only got one woman Chief Officer at the top in the County Council . |
| 10 | Because BS knows all the facts about the brain state , and the experience just is the brain state , then what the experience is like must be something other than a fact about the experience . |
| 11 | Other than the fact that they provide a satisfactory explanation , there is often no independent test of their truth . |
| 12 | Furthermore , even when examining recorded crimes only , changes in the figures may be accounted for by reasons other than the fact that the actual number of offences have changed , and there are a variety of other ways in which an increase in recorded crime can be accounted for . |
| 13 | Large numbers of people become Christians for all sorts of reasons other than the fact that they fully understand why Christianity is true . |
| 14 | Perhaps one of the reasons SunPics resisted the idea , other than the fact that it jeopardises the planet 's whole raison d'etre , is that the deal was reportedly sprung on them a week before it was signed . |
| 15 | Thus there are no compelling philosophical reasons for proscribing unqualified quantification other than the fact that such a quantification resists a reductivist analysis . |
| 16 | why he should n't other than the fact that keeping |
| 17 | We can legitimately ask what does a senior official based in Whitehall and acting as a policy adviser to a minister have in common with an administrative officer working in a local branch of the Department of Social Security other than the fact that they are both civil servants ? |
| 18 | A major problem is that there is no reason why we choose the referents that we do other than the fact that they may be someone we know or whose occupation we have information about . |
| 19 | She nodded in delight , everything forgotten other than the fact that she 'd have help with her bags and a companion to talk to . |
| 20 | On the more nebulous issue of value for money of George Street Research said there was clear evidence , of which the opening quotation forms only a part , that clients do not know what goes into a piece of legal work to justify the fee , other than the fact that the job is done . |
| 21 | Er , I see no answer to that , other than the fact that they will be a continuing relationship with the voluntary sector , er , and the problem is , how to organise it . |
| 22 | ‘ Do you have any reason whatsoever to doubt that I 'm telling you the truth — other than the fact that I 'm a singer ? |
| 23 | With a smothered curse he pulled her into his arms and began to kiss her , using a more powerful argument than words as the first touch of his mouth on hers sent everything out of Leonora 's head other than the fact that she loved and wanted this man to the point where she was almost ready to believe that she 'd been mistaken . |
| 24 | ‘ The Post Office could give no explanation other than the fact that the other parties address their leaflets to individual households , while we did not . ’ |
| 25 | But no , I I enjoyed it , other than the fact that it was so hot in there ! |