Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] by the fact " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their relationship is strengthened or reinforced by the fact that Pip is in love with his daughter , Estella , and as Magwitch dies Pip tells him this , |
| 2 | This advantage was , however , more than offset by the fact that those senior Allied officers and statesmen who had advocated the invasion of Turkey , in order to step up the pressure on the Central Powers in the Middle East and so save lives in the war of attrition in France , had lost the argument . |
| 3 | He was still amazed and fascinated by the fact of two men being together at all ; he was almost overwhelmed by the idea of two men actually living together . |
| 4 | In his semi-final Hartlepool 's Mark Chicocki was disqualified after being given three warnings in the last round for leaning on , a decision booed soundly by the crowd and highlighted by the fact that in following bouts boxers who leaned on just as much were n't even spoken to . |
| 5 | This first set of questions is interrelated and confused by the fact that both the courts and Parliament have , at times , claimed exclusive jurisdiction to determine whether a particular privilege exists , and the criteria which they have applied in making this determination have differed . |
| 6 | I do n't know whether it contributed much — one never knows oneself whether it contributes or nOt — but I never took my eyes off Peter during this scene , willed him to do this , that and the other , and was saddened and grieved and distressed by the fact that everybody turned against him at the end . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The sounds were inexplicable since the wind was blowing from the Glastonbury direction and the high ground shielded the quarry from it , as shown by the fact that the stunted bushes on the lip of the quarry did not move . |
| 9 | Moreover , users have been reluctant to experiment with subject headings , as shown by the fact that over 50% of catalogue users consult a single subject heading only . |
| 10 | They were having an intense and appropriately heated discussion on the problems of cold-spots ( as evinced by the fact that their first attempts came out looking like braille roundels ) , and on the unfortunate instability of three poppadoms balanced together — caused not so much by the jerk they received when the turntable started up as by their movements while they cooked and swelled — but eventually my flatmates settled on the concept of standing the things up individually on the glass turntable , and so instigated what they termed a ‘ brainstorming session ’ in an attempt to find a suitable support mechanism . |
| 11 | Briefly , the argument is as follows : the homosexual is a creation of modern discourse , medical , sexological , and psychological , as evidenced by the fact that the word ‘ homosexual ’ was coined in 1869 : neither it nor the sexual sense of perversion appeared in the OED until its 1933 Supplement . |
| 12 | Lim 's sources of information were seen to be much more effective than the Army 's compromised intelligence gathering network , as evidenced by the fact that four of the chief rebel officers captured since the coup attempt had been tracked down and arrested by the police . |
| 13 | But it was money that was on everybody 's mind in Baltimore that week , as indicated by the fact that inviting Mr Frohnmayer was an afterthought . |
| 14 | NC protein is present in the capsid during reverse transcription , as indicated by the fact that it promotes the positioning of the primer tRNA to the PBS for the initiation of reverse transcription . |
| 15 | The prima facie rule would be displaced by a subsequent transaction which was not ‘ independent and disconnected , ’ as illustrated by the facts in Pagnan v. Corbisa . |