Example sentences of "[to-vb] for 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 | Skull breakage : % complete : this compares the number of complete skulls ( defined as in figure 3.11 ) with the total number of maxillae ( divided by two to allow for the fact that there are two maxillae per skull ) . |
| 7 | He failed to allow for the fact that Lucasta Redburn could not bear to throw away anything that might one day come in useful . |
| 8 | It is possible to calculate hypothetical exchange rates to allow for the fact that specific commodities ( say , bread , video cassettes etc. ) are cheaper in country A than country B. Such comparisons of production on the basis of ‘ real income per head ’ , or ‘ purchasing power parity ’ showed the UK in 1985 to have 64.8 per cent of the income of the USA , or 85.6 per cent of the average of six countries shown at Figure 2.2 . |
| 9 | The pricing relation is where the cost function has been extended to allow for the fact that X and Y are now used as intermediate goods . |
| 10 | The model is clearly unsatisfactory in a number of respects ; for example , the absence of investment , the failure to allow for the fact that the incidence of unemployment is not spread evenly and of its consequent distributional effects , and the assumption that prices are rigid but quantities are perfectly flexible . |
| 11 | In addition , to allow for the fact that some criteria will be more important to the company than some others , each criterion is given a weighting on a scale of 1 to 10 . |
| 12 | In addition , to allow for the fact that some criteria will be more important to the company than some others , each criterion is given a weighting on a scale of 1 to 10 . |
| 13 | This is necessary to allow for the fact that the module relationships of a package may change by the addition of new module/packages or the removal of others , or both . |
| 14 | More recent work has attempted to allow for the fact that holders of money balances may switch into a whole spectrum of assets , such as equities , trade bills and certificates of deposit . |
| 15 | It should be stressed that similar conclusions to those of figure 7.4 hold when comparisons are made within a particular social class to control for the fact that higher social classes are both more likely to marry late and to be owner-occupiers . |
| 16 | If this were really true , it would be difficult to account for the fact that , in the ten-year period 1977 — 87 , the total money supply ( M 1 at the end of the year ) rose approximately thirty-fold , and the cost-of-living index ( average for the year ) rose more than fifty-fold . |
| 17 | If you say that children are completely non-rational then you have to account for the fact that they become rational , and to do that it appears from these examples that you have to assume that they already are . |
| 18 | It was still very difficult to see how the process might work , or to account for the fact that some ads worked , and some consumers took action , but others stubbornly did not ; or that an apparently good campaign failed to achieve extra sales — for sales were still the only real measure of effectiveness . |
| 19 | To revert to our example , we shall have to account for the fact that the predicate human , or rather the predicable " — is human " , unlike the predicable " — is a dragon " , has the capacity of being turned into a true proposition , and in order to do this , we shall have to make use of our original proposition , viz. that men do actually exist ( in the full-blooded sense of " exist " ) , and if so , nothing of any substance will have been accomplished by the attempted " reduction " . |
| 20 | By making this distinction , Miliband sought to account for the fact that the state is not always an instrument of the ruling class , even though , in terms of ownership and control of the economy , a ruling class clearly existed . |
| 21 | This means that the initial state of the universe would have to have had exactly the same temperature everywhere in order to account for the fact that the microwave background has the same temperature in every direction we look . |
| 22 | Erm but one of the reasons that , that we got the audience was , was so that they , they obviously the audience were prepared to pay for the fact that |
| 23 | Angered by suggestions that his conduct was inexplicable and that he had not offered any constructive criticism during a 3½ hour inquest into Yorkshire 's dismal summer , Boycott claimed that the cricket sub-committee would not accept any form of responsibility : ‘ They have been in charge for five of the last six years but will not agree that they are at least partly to blame for the fact that Yorkshire cricket is in a mess . ’ |
| 24 | The truth is , if we were looking for people to blame for the fact that the once-great club are now Division Three favourites , referee Brian Coddington would come a long way down the list . |