Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the fact [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baker expressed grave concern at the Bootle killing and attacked various institutions for the fact that society has become more violent and selfish . |
| 2 | For instance , she never specifically said : ‘ Do n't blame your mother for everything ’ , but she made me understand that I was using my mother as an excuse for the fact that I was n't happy a lot of the time . |
| 3 | Although this is the story of a war I had every reason to treat seriously while I was close to it , I offer no excuse for the fact that the account begins on a trivial note . |
| 4 | It occurs to me , for example , that given that all we 've heard this afternoon about the fact that a new settlement and again I 'm playing devil 's advocate , that if it were possible to build onto an existing settlement the quality of life of those who lived in the new settlement might in fact be better than if they were , to put it crudely , finding themselves in the middle of a field . |
| 5 | Gone are the days when guys thought it was girlie to be groomed , the new man of the 90's makes a noise about the fact that he knows how to look good and what 's more these guys now have more beautifying products than old socks ! |
| 6 | The University appears , then , to have great admiration for the fact that , among other things , Caspar Weinberger : a ) supported the Contra rebels in a war which led to the deaths of some 30,000 Nicaraguans and which was declared illegal by the International Court of Justice . |
| 7 | In this book , we assume that the similarity between the transformational process and our diagnostic test arises because the former was formulated in response to intuitions about the fact that the properties of many ( but not all ! ) adjectives could be considered valid for the E qualified in both the P positions in : ( 7 ) P E E P In any case , the test gives us two different ways in which the adjective French may be used with its noun , and the examples show that it does not always designate a property of the entity to which it appears to be attached syntactically . |
| 8 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that there will be swift Government action to remedy that situation and will he commiserate with the Leader of the Opposition about the fact that his and his party 's principal supporter should turn out to be a crook ? |
| 9 | There is an unresolved tension between the fact that the perceptions of mystics are seen as fundamentally important to the human condition and the fact that they are given to so few . |
| 10 | The Elton Committee suggested that because of the concern in schools about the fact that LEAs will often be able to order reinstatement against the wishes of parents and governors , the Secretary of State should monitor the operation of the new arrangements for five years and consider any changes that appear necessary . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | I was able to throw myself into my work , which helped to take my mind off the fact that she was gone . |
| 13 | Ruggia did everything possible to take his mind off the fact that he might not have a ride at all . |
| 14 | There are photos in here of the kind that win awards , articles that you would want to read even if you did n't have to take your mind off the fact that you might , you know , at any moment … |
| 15 | You 'd read ‘ Hot Air ’ even if you did n't have to take your mind off the fact that you might , you know , at any moment … |
| 16 | Erm you were telling me about religion about the fact that you went to church . |
| 17 | Well this is our great fear of course , I mean , we have no illusions about the fact that there will be a six , nine months , I think most people say a maximum of a year , er honeymoon period now , and this is what we 've been anticipating . |
| 18 | Noticing the way the young woman 's eyes had glazed over with undisguised longing , while he appeared faintly bored with the proceedings , Shannon had mentally given thanks for the fact that she was n't drawn to gorgeous , self-centred hunks like this one . |
| 19 | Now it was also interesting that after he forgot that two weeks ago we had his own Minister , David Hunt , crying on the steps of Brussels about the fact that the forty eight hour week had been passed by a majority vote , with only him opting out . |
| 20 | Joyce worries about the fact that Luke does n't eat , yet , every time she is away , he gorges himself — stores up the food so he can starve again when she returns , and really makes her feel bad about leaving him . |
| 21 | Yes , can I bring this argument a bit closer to home and talk about the sexual division of labour within the family , which I think is one of the underlying causes of discrimination against women , and that 's really just a fancy term for the fact that when we talk about child care women do most of the work and men do very little , and really I do n't think we can look at the position of women without looking at how , in fact , child care and caring is organized within the family . |
| 22 | I put the seed of doubt into Steve 's mind about the fact that I could not say that er bearings could be guaranteed P five at that price . |
| 23 | I am saying that we are confronted , beneath a language which is often common to both parties , with two competing moral philosophies , and that the language of partnership is a mirage , a deliberate and partisan disguise for the fact that one of those philosophies holds power while the other comes from beneath the underdog . |
| 24 | They may bear grievances about the fact that they are locked up in prison , perhaps for longer than they feel they deserve or for longer than other offenders whom they regard as comparable . |
| 25 | ‘ The Fisheries Commission has made a big deal of the fact that hundreds of nets have been seized . |
| 26 | After all it was introduced , and Mrs Thatcher has made a great deal of the fact that it is a head tax not a property tax , it 's the voters she wants answerable , well I 've yet to find an empty house that voted . |
| 27 | Distinguishing between personal identity , ‘ the perception of selfsameness and continuity of one 's existence in time and space and the perception of the fact that others recognise one 's sameness and continuity , and ego identity , he defines the latter as , |
| 28 | Well I ca n't stop their perception of the fact that the staff that are disappearing out of the office come from the P T section . |
| 29 | , British customs officers have seized 17 tonnes of coral illegally imported into the country from the Philippines — a major source of reef coral despite the fact that local laws prohibit its collection and export . |
| 30 | The middle classes , based on manufacture in the emerging industrial towns , and a working class made out of these self-same developments , gained a consciousness of the fact that they were unrepresented and politically disadvantaged within the eighteenth-century constitution . |