Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] to the fact " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even if we are able to accommodate ourselves to the fact that our parents were not altogether " good " from the child 's viewpoint , we may still retain the ideal in our minds . |
| 2 | He had almost resigned himself to the fact that this cop was too cautious to be caught out like the one he had almost jumped five nights previously , when without warning the man below stepped out from the shelter of the deep doorway . |
| 3 | About three weeks later , Jenny had resigned herself to the fact that she would stay . |
| 4 | I mean I think I 've already resigned myself to the fact that I 'm going to have to do one maybe two years more before I get anything like |
| 5 | By now I had covered a fair expanse of this wood , and I had resigned myself to the fact that this would be the earliest I would get , regardless of what was in the ground . |
| 6 | ‘ I was actually satisfied with that , if only because I 'd resigned myself to the fact that I 'd never be thin , ’ she admits . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't do it grudgingly , I 'd resigned myself to the fact that football was his burning passion . |
| 8 | The trend indicates that as the date for reauthorisation approaches , liberals have resigned themselves to the fact the NEA chairmanship is not a rostrum for ethics , but a political post . |
| 9 | " I might as well resign myself to the fact that Matthew Preston is not out of my life . |
| 10 | But , in the euphoria of the moment , were the local breeders blinding themselves to the fact that what they were really doing was preserving freaks ? |
| 11 | We must consider ways of describing the molecular structure as a continuum , such descriptions involving the idea of " embedding " , or we must reconcile ourselves to the fact that we can never do this and work entirely with a kinetic theory of molecules with the aim of deriving their properties including elastic ad viscous properties from the equations of motion . |
| 12 | But Lib Dem Coun Flo Clukas said officers should reconcile themselves to the fact that Option 3 will go ahead and should put plans into place . |
| 13 | But scientists reconciled themselves to the fact that the answers to such questions would never be known with certainty since the fish had obviously become extinct long ago . |
| 14 | At 16 , I resigned myself to the fact that I 'd never really be thin ’ |
| 15 | Will he address himself to the fact that no less than 44 per cent . |
| 16 | Of course Scamp gets to claim about twenty grand on some dubious insurance policy and I resign myself to the fact that I 'll never get beyond Inspector . |