Example sentences of "[be] [verb] by the fact " in BNC.

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1 These processes are justified by the fact that the audience wields some power over the moves of the managers .
2 In terms of this critical pulsatance , at pulsatances above and below it respectively , the attenuation constant and phase shift per section are given by The fact that the transfer function becomes when establishes that , in the pass band , the output signal of a section lags in phase behind the input signal to that section .
3 Secondly , this decline in fertility did occur in depressed industrial towns and among industrial groups whose prospects of unemployment were high and whose access to the ‘ acquisitive way of life ’ must have been limited by the fact that they were receiving some form of unemployment or health benefit and struggling to survive .
4 Yet all these potential users of computer systems are limited by the fact that the computer can not recognise a shape drawn on a piece of paper .
5 Yet all these potential users of computer systems are limited by the fact that the computer can not be interfaced to a piece of paper !
6 Although in some cases enterprises have tried to develop realistic ‘ performative ’ plans ( Wernham 1985 : 633 ) , their incentives to do so are limited by the fact that plans are still subject to external political appraisal which may alter their content and assumptions and thus undermine managerial commitment .
7 The difficulties of integrating data are compounded by the fact that there are few standards governing the way in which geographical data are collected and reported .
8 Does it even make sense to pose the question in this form ? problems of interpreting the historical material are compounded by the fact that contemporary evidence from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries tends to treat examples of working-class people who did not support their parents as evidence of individuals lacking ‘ filial affection ’ ( Anderson , 1977 ) .
9 These difficulties are compounded by the fact that industrialisation policies have their own dynamic in each sector and by foreign lenders ' intervention in domestic policy .
10 These major disasters are compounded by the fact that those people believed that the NHS would make them better .
11 From an advertiser 's viewpoint , soccer 's problems are compounded by the fact that the rules allow no breaks in the action -- a far cry from other major American sports which build in breaks for commercials .
12 The two machines will include speech synthesis and recognition as a standard feature , and are differentiated by the fact that the smaller model will use Motorola Inc 's 25MHz 68LC040 and the larger the 40MHz 68040 .
13 The chair was slipping , although its first speed had been checked by the fact that she had fallen in front of the wheels .
14 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 .
15 His efforts to recover them have been hampered by the fact that Britain is not a subscriber to the 1970 UNESCO convention for the return of cultural property to its country of origin .
16 Essentially the nine conflicts are related by the fact that they involve situations where either one party has more information than another , a state of affairs described by economists as information asymetry ; or where one party has a monopoly power ; indeed the conflict may occur where both these two factors are simultaneously present .
17 Limitations are imposed by the fact that you have to wait two months for the educational psychologist , you have to close the biology lab when it rains because it leaks and they have n't sent anyone to repair it yet , you have to apply for a short in-service course rather than the full-time MA that you really wanted to do because there are n't any secondments any more .
18 His life had almost certainly been saved by the fact that one bullet had hit a radio handset he had been holding to his ear .
19 ‘ We are heartened by the fact producers have responded so quickly to the system .
20 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 .
21 But precautions are hampered by the fact that no one now knows where the slick is .
22 But the rate of loss of forest threatens to outstrip any of this basic work , and practical plans are hampered by the fact that until recently the birds have simply not been very well studied : not much is known about them .
23 Both have had a strong hedging and speculative demand due to the volatility of short interest rates , and they are connected by the fact that the authorities in the UK , as well as the market participants , keep a close eye on the differential between short rates in the two countries .
24 Erm , now we , we can explain to you in more detail , but the finan I think Mr 's already said to you that the financial savings er , from such moves are not as productive as they were , so in sense we 're driven by strategy here , we 're driven by the fact that there is a private and there is an independent sector that is there , there is alternative methods of supply .
25 The situation had not been helped by the fact that the subject of the Stuttgart relay had come up .
26 These issues have been intensified by the fact that , because of the very restrictive conditions operating in the Britain of today , most notably those relating to the labour market and housing , the migration processes which are largely responsible for these shifts have proved more than normally selective in terms of the types of people involved .
27 Yeah whether or not you whether or not you think it 's been induced by the fact that , that they 've heard what happened in and they think that they can start doing that as opposed to ch as opposed to just saying we 're going to exist by creating
28 The very few times an accurate cross goes in its nothing to do with planning … just the law of averages and that s helped by the fact they normally have more than 2 people heading into the box .
29 All too often in politics we are handicapped by the fact that Mrs Jones has done something a certain way for twenty-seven years and therefore must be allowed to do it again this time .
30 Later assessments of the attitude of the crofters to Lord Leverhulme 's schemes have been smudged by the fact that the relationship changed as soon as the schemes were abandoned .
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