Example sentences of "[vb pp] by the fact " in BNC.
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| 1 | Statements of the principles of law applicable to the problem disclosed by the facts of the case . |
| 2 | ‘ Any picture America had of its women being shy , gentle creatures living sheltered lives , untainted by the world , is shattered by the facts in the report , ’ commented one newspaper typically . |
| 3 | The special relationship Finniston forged between top management and the work-force at British Steel is epitomised by the fact that he was given farewell parties by each of the seven major steelworks when he came to leave the corporation at the end of ten years . |
| 4 | The French are attracted by the fact the Magic Kingdom and the proposed second theme park are to be located at Marne-la-Valee near Paris , the heavy involvement of the French government and the existence of theme parks such as the Asterix near Paris . |
| 5 | More specifically , an analysis of Scottish kingship , and of the particular reasons for its strength , enables us to discard the lingering idea that Mary 's failure was predetermined by the fact that she was a woman — and worse and more pathetic , a young woman . |
| 6 | Naturally , my father would have felt this loss keenly ; but to make matters worse the usual comfort a father has in these situations — that is , the notion that his son gave his life gloriously for king and country — was sullied by the fact that my brother had perished in a particularly infamous manoeuvre . |
| 7 | The emotional complexity of the debate was deepened by the fact that neither side had the monopoly of logic or charm : Dr Colin Blakemore , though known as ‘ Dr Frankenstein' to the yellow press for having experimented on animals ’ eyes , seemed reasonable , persuasive and put-upon ; Douglas Hogg , MP , also on the vivisectionist side , was quite startlingly and pointlessly rude . |
| 8 | It may be added , moreover , that this suspicion is deepened by the fact that the historians of Bursa , Baldirzade and Ismail Belig , locate Molla Yegan 's burial place quite precisely in Bursa , not Iznik ; and their evidence , if not , perhaps , of such a nature as to be decisive , is yet very telling . |
| 9 | The perfection of this design is attested by the fact that species belonging to quite different families of fish have adopted it and thus bear a strong resemblance to one another . |
| 10 | When he completed his circumnavigation of the world , his contemporaries were just as impressed by the fact that he achieved this feat without losing a single member of his crew to scurvy . |
| 11 | ‘ Far from being invalidated by the fact that , for instance , a perfect balance of power policy will scarcely be found in reality , it assumes that reality , being deficient in this respect , must be understood and evaluated as an approximation to an ideal system of balance of power . |
| 12 | But my thoughts were rapidly clouded by the fact that the lower hoof had landed full on my solar plexus . |
| 13 | The rise of a new stratum of child-minders and crêche facilities , public or private , was testimony to the wish of women to lead more relaxed , interesting , child-free lives , accentuated by the fact of more women being middle class in status or perhaps aspiration . |
| 14 | The need to rely on the local aristocracy — common to all rulers — was accentuated by the fact that often the pope was chosen from among their number . |
| 15 | This means , that at any time , the volume occupied by a chain in solution , could differ from that occupied by its neighbours , and these size differences are further accentuated by the fact that each sample will contain a variety of chain lengths . |
| 16 | The easy sociability which it offered was fostered by the fact that all its pubs , clubs , restaurants and delicatessens were squeezed into an area no larger than a square mile . |
| 17 | An opposition between active and contemplative life is fostered by the fact that not all people feel able to pursue the discipline of contemplative life — some are notably more suited to the necessary functions of active life . |
| 18 | The points of divergence in perspective can broadly be summarized by the facts that : |
| 19 | If , for example , a hotelier contracts for a window cleaner to clean all the outside windows of the hotel and , while undertaking this job , the person contracted falls and is injured , although the hotelier owes the window cleaner a duty of care under s. 2(1) OLA 1957 , the extent of this duty is modified by the fact that window cleaners will themselves guard against the ordinary risks of carrying out the job and thus the hotelier may not be liable for their injuries . |
| 20 | The figures are inevitably distorted by the fact that several of the great old grammar schools opted to join the private sector after the Labour governments ' reform of secondary education in the 1970s , but of the twenty-two schools attended by Cabinet ministers , eighteen belonged to the 1990 Headmasters ' Conference . |
| 21 | The potential is underlined by the fact that the US market , with just twice the population of Japan , absorbed about 10m personal computers last year , against the modest 2.2m sold in Japan — although the comparison is distorted by the fact that the dedicated word processor is still a major force in the Japanese market , and 2.24m Japanese-language word processors produced in 1992 according to the Electronics Industry Association of Japan , which means that combined sales for word processors and personal computers are much closer to parity with the US market . |
| 22 | But the results would be distorted by the fact that two consonant letters are used in the spelling ; to do the test properly one should use illiterate subjects , which raises many further problems . |
| 23 | Until recently the role of the Court of Appeal in structuring the discretion of Crown Court sentencers was further constrained by the fact that only the defendant could appeal against sentence . |
| 24 | The courts have rarely appeared constrained by the fact that , as they have developed the law by extending the constable 's duties , they have in effect considerably broadened the ambit of the criminal law . |
| 25 | The demand for labour is therefore constrained by the fact that the firm is rationed in the goods market . |
| 26 | Similarly , small firm independence is eroded by the fact that over half of the raw materials to be processed are obtained from the buyer and nearly one-third of subcontractors use the buyers trademark . |
| 27 | Now , a lot of those frustrations would be alleviated by the fact that our callers go through a switchboard , who will take out a lot of the frustrations by doing some detective work before the call actually gets to you . |
| 28 | In their ambition to produce a cinema version of Granta , the editors have not solved the problem presented by the fact that film-makers who want to write about their films probably are not making them . |
| 29 | The efforts made by Sussex police — and the three other UK forces that have set up a specialist antiques squad — are hampered by the fact that knocking in itself is not illegal . |
| 30 | You will have received a copy of my handwritten ‘ Functional Specification ’ in which I have tried to take account of all the comments made during our session in Paris but have been somewhat hampered by the fact that I , too along with David and Geoff , have not been able to make the latest set of disks run . |