Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the fact that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , first of all I 'd like to apologize for the fact that Alan 's report and my report especially the first half , are very similar . |
| 2 | The procedure was designed to compensate for the fact that the electoral register is not a very complete list of individuals ; it therefore depended on whether the adults resident had changed since the register was compiled . |
| 3 | This is a real gift to the declining Italian tourist industry , which needs the country 's cultural assets to be made more accessible if it is to compensate for the fact that mass tourism has migrated to cheaper , less developed shores . |
| 4 | And that means that even the AS/400 is potentially at risk , and can only continue to be a winner if IBM builds in a big discount to compensate for the fact that it is proprietary — yet instead of recognising this vulnerability , with its incredible but consistent short-termism , the company is squeezing AS/400 users until they squeal with its software pricing on the machine . |
| 5 | Second , there is the failure to provide for the fact that disabled older people require higher incomes than non-disabled people . |
| 6 | Programmers do not need to worry about the fact that their applications may be running in parallel , Hinsley says , they merely need to think about the appropriate size of object and Taos will do the rest . |
| 7 | Programmers do not need to worry about the fact that their applications may be running in parallel , Hinsley says , they merely need to think about the appropriate size of object and Taos will do the rest . |
| 8 | It was Metzinger who , in his Note sur la Peinture of 1910 , was the first to write of the fact that Picasso and Braque had dismissed traditional perspective and felt free to move around their subjects , studying them from various points of view . |
| 9 | It is difficult for her and others to grapple with the fact that , although they often oppose racism on behalf of Asian communities , they find themselves unable to control and dictate the forms that anti-racism takes . |
| 10 | To extrapolate from the fact that some forms of literacy practice develop explicitness to a theory that literacy is intrinsically capable of being culture-free and therefore represents an evolutionary advance in intellectual power , as some of the writers we have been examining do , is to take literacy out of the very context that enabled it to develop explicitness . |
| 11 | Once we see that the relationship between a set of explanatory principles and the more specific analyses offered by social scientists must be a reciprocal one we are able to benefit from the fact that , just as social scientific practice is moulded by existing views of explanation , so those views can be refined and altered by the impact of practice . |
| 12 | Is the Minister 's very carefully worded reply an attempt to distract from the fact that the proportion of the elderly in the population is increasing and will continue to do so ? |
| 13 | Their nods of acknowledgement became full bows which were held uncertainly while they attempted to adjust to the fact that they were , unexpectedly , in the presence of a member of the Royal Family . |
| 14 | I gave you time to adjust to the fact that I 'd make love to you tonight and — ’ |
| 15 | April 1 being one of those ‘ wobbly Wednesdays ’ , no-one saw fit to comment on the fact that no such strategy was handed over by our Government , and that all the Commission received from us was a pristine copy of the Government 's White Paper on the Environment , first published nearly two years ago — and notoriously short on specific targets . |
| 16 | In particular , he fails to comment on the fact that eighty-five per cent of the seven-year-olds passed item ( 1 ) — a fact which suggests that even younger children might have been capable of passing this item , especially if it had been presented in an oral rather than a written form . |
| 17 | During these years the most important of the established exhibitors at the Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne included Bonnard , Vuillard and Denis , while the strong group of Neo-Impressionist painters under the leadership of Signac were also recognized and admired ; by 1909 Vauxcelles was able to comment on the fact that it was no longer necessary to fight for the painters that he had christened the Fauves . |
| 18 | Indeed , it is totally within it to talk about the fact that the inspector has a right to comment on the quality of school buildings and its impact on education . |
| 19 | ‘ Before you do , ’ said Epitot carefully , ‘ you may care to reflect upon the fact that thanks to your neglect of the most elementary precautions , you have permitted a homicidal maniac to molest the body of one of our countrymen . ’ |
| 20 | It is salutary to reflect on the fact that decisions taken and qualifications awarded now could affect the mobility of people well into the twenty first century . |
| 21 | It is shocking and horrible , and it requires a sense of irony almost to reflect on the fact that this is 1991 — towards the end of the 20th century . |
| 22 | Lacking more substantive arguments for voting Labour , Gaitskell promised an extravagant ‘ electioneering'-type budget if returned to office , a ploy which the Tory leaders were able to ridicule despite the fact that they had started that particular game . |
| 23 | I concede that the current recession and the Government 's mismanagement of the economy have a part to play in the fact that prestige projects are not lining up to locate in the bay . |
| 24 | The important distinction between accommodation and services , recognised in the Wagner report ( 1988 ) helps us to focus on the fact that a complete environment is being offered . |
| 25 | He did n't want to go into the fact that someone had died . |
| 26 | The area of special needs in further education/training has had to contend with the fact that it is but a very small part of a very much larger whole , and that the FE college and the training schemes are subject to the vagaries and constraints of the external environment . |
| 27 | Anyone trying to free a seated victim also has to cope with the fact that the faces sculpted on the chair start gibbering and screeching , radiating a Cause Cowardly Flight effect in a 3-yard radius . |
| 28 | They are designed to cope with the fact that judicial review actions often raise complex issues of public policy administrative practice which go well beyond the interests of the parties to the judicial review application and of the applicant in particular . |
| 29 | This was set up in 1972 to cope with the fact that , in the words of the director of the regional organization' |
| 30 | What , if any , additional accounts need to be opened in the second year to cope with the fact that the business is now a partnership and for what reason are they needed ? |