Example sentences of "fact that [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The facts that they restricted entry to the lounge to certain classes of passengers and gave their staff instructions as to what to do with lost property were insufficient to manifest the intention to exercise the requisite degree of control . |
| 2 | We should attend to the fact that knowledge of the external world means representing a lot of facts at once , so many facts that we lose hold of the idea of ‘ representation ’ . |
| 3 | Further , she argues from the fact that one wills alienation to be overcome , that indeed it is overcome . |
| 4 | Similarly , I , as an anthropologist , am attempting to draw attention to another level at which Greenfield is not being explicit : namely , the fact that what schooled children are doing has been learnt as a convention within a school system . |
| 5 | Indeed , all of us here today are privileged by the fact that we knew Nigel . |
| 6 | and get to grips with the real world , then th er as well as what Jim said about the fact that we pay staff lieu time , and we pay them overtime , and |
| 7 | ‘ How do we do it , is the question that is asked , and the answer lies in the fact that we have experience in depth . ’ |
| 8 | We 're very happy to be here and we 're particularly pleased for you people from Parham , Framlingham , Ipswich and other locations joining us today and I would be negligent in not mentioning the fact that we have representatives here from the existing Three-Ninetieth strategic missile located in Tucsan , Arizona . |
| 9 | In connection particularly with the second inquiry , will the right hon. Gentleman bear in mind the fact that we have children in private as well as in local authority homes , all of which need to be looked into quickly ? |
| 10 | All of our reparation work is based on the fact that we want people to volunteer to do this work . |
| 11 | Again , I urge the House to consider the fact that we expect inspections of individual schools to take place on a four to five-yearly basis . |
| 12 | I think erm that sometimes the fact that children have moved to a school where they have a timetable which has got subjects written down on a piece of paper , and the fact that they bring homework back with them and parents can see work in exercise books , sometimes that acts as a kind of reassurance to parents that something is going on which they recognise as education . |
| 13 | The fact that they walked hand in hand , and exchanged shy and wondering glances , and had little squabbles , and not so little jealousies . |
| 14 | They are alike in that both form part of a single entity-identifier ; this is reflected in surface syntax by the fact that they form part of the same noun phrase as their head noun . |
| 15 | It is unusual for a major organisation to change its chief executive four times in less than a decade and the fact that they chose Roche each time — in a highly competitive market — is an impressive record in the headhunting world . |
| 16 | You know in a way South Wales is paying back the debt that we pa w w we paid them in their strike you know I mean and That 's communities helping communities and if really this management is talking about er the fact that they resent families not having to go without over Christmas and this sort of thing you know I mean where are their values you know it 's difficult to understand is n't it ? |
| 17 | We may not like the fact that they stop exports — they affect some of the exports of my constituency — but they are bloody-minded because they think that they , too , are getting a rotten deal from the CAP . |
| 18 | Following the signing of the Cessation Treaty between Charles and the Irish rebels in September 1643 , large numbers of Irish Catholics crossed to England to join Charles 's royalist army , despite the fact that they faced summary execution if captured by parliament . |
| 19 | Their views may have been coloured by the fact that they found evidence of significant misreporting of publication data in some areas , to the extent that they suggest automatically lowering research ratings as a penalty for discovered deliberate misreporting . |
| 20 | Their views may have been coloured by the fact that they found evidence of significant misreporting of publication data in some areas , to the extent that they suggest automatically lowering research ratings as a penalty for discovered deliberate misreporting . |
| 21 | The use of cables , if available , is excellent for bringing out the definition at the centre of the chest ( origin ) due to the fact that they allow movement over the body 's centre-line without loss of tension . |
| 22 | Thus , whether individual sociologists like it or not , the fact that they produce knowledge is a significant contribution to the changing flux of social life . |
| 23 | Semenyaka is an honoured People 's Artist , but she agrees : ‘ Our heyday was the time of Diaghilev , Nijinsky and Karsavina , and the fact that they inspired Fokine and Balanchine . |
| 24 | It is at Portsmouth , where Fanny constantly collides with the unsatisfactory Rebecca and Sally ( not least so , perhaps , in the fact that they have names , which Jane Austen 's servants normally do not , though Richardson 's do ) , that her heroine discovers the true virtues of Mansfield Park : |
| 25 | Moore 's way of putting it might be defended on the basis of a realist view of universals for which individual horses are horses because they participate in a universal object horse , and do so in virtue of the fact that they have parts participating in universal objects which are parts of the universal object horse and related to each other in ways which participate in the universal relations linking part to whole in the universal object . |
| 26 | Now if you 've got somebody who you are protecting their family , and they 'll be paying that plan twenty five years or more , the fact that they pay commissions out for the first four years is immaterial , what they want is peace of mind and protection . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The number of retailers collapsing during the recession bears witness to the fact that they need customers more than customers need them . |
| 29 | I would like to ask the saboteurs how they can justify the fact that they ill-treat hounds and horses ? |
| 30 | ( 1 ) The fact that someone prefers X to Y , as shown in their behaviour , is empirically ascertainable in a way in which the greater intensity or duration , or even very existence , of a private feeling of pleasure or pain is not . |