Example sentences of "fact that [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other spin-off effect of the new law arises from the fact that under these regulations the organiser becomes responsible to the customer for all the component parts of the package . |
| 2 | Earlier we were discussing the fact that at some stages of life we are , unconsciously at least , expecting the imminent demise of someone we love , as in the case of a very elderly parent . |
| 3 | The system is further complicated by the fact that on many issues a Flemish socialist is far less likely to agree with a French-speaking fellow-socialist than with a conservative fellow-Fleming . |
| 4 | Behind this instability lies the simple fact that for many commodities such as coffee and ground-nuts , demand in the industrialized world with its stable population has probably reached saturation point . |
| 5 | But given the dumb actors portrayed , there seems to be a clear need to draw distinctions between , at one extreme , the cat and the chicken and , at the other , the sea anemone and the mud-dauber ; despite the fact that for many readers , ethologists included , the wasp 's habits will be the most intriguing of all . |
| 6 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I am well aware of the fact that for some years now you have cut yourself off from your past and not deigned to reply to the letters of your friends , or even to return their calls , taking refuge in your answering machine and pretending not to be in when they rang at the bell . |
| 7 | My difficulty was further compounded by the fact that for some years my father and I had tended — for some reason I have never really fathomed — to converse less and less . |
| 8 | But this would itself be merely an instance of the general fact that with most sentences it is possible for two people to understand them but disagree about their truth . |
| 9 | Bellends : I liked the fact that as both ends are the same you have four choices of entrance . |
| 10 | Of deep concern , also , is the fact that in many countries machinery and criteria for final assessment of primary school children ( with all the feedback that this brings into the school curriculum ) are still dominated by the requirements of selection for Secondary School despite the obvious truth of Nyerere 's statement that those capable of further education will readily identify themselves . |
| 11 | Excavation , the unearthing , examination , and recording of archaeological sites , is most people 's idea of archaeology , despite the fact that in many countries far more valuable work is done by accurately locating and plotting unknown sites , rather than by excavation . |
| 12 | The clinical purpose stems from the fact that in many instances the co-operation of the patient and the patient 's faith or at least confidence in the efficiency of the treatment is a major factor contributing to the treatment 's success . |
| 13 | Tutors may wish to explore the fact that in many cases these are not included in business accounts on the basis of materiality and cost/benefit of keeping track of them . |
| 14 | Some such explanation seems called for , given the fact that in many ways the two theories of Reich and Freud did not disagree fundamentally on the one area of the need for sexual reform . |
| 15 | Thirdly there is the fact that in many respects law is not of great importance to business fortunes . |
| 16 | The fact that in many societies all three are illegal does not mean that they have a similar social or historical significance . |
| 17 | The strict mathematical equality of each person 's vote with all others conceals the fact that in such circumstances some votes carry no weight or impact at all . |
| 18 | I think it is helpful to think of the latter as debtor ( creditor-supplier ) agreements since this emphasizes the fact that in such agreements there is some connection between the creditor and the supplier : either they are the same person eg in the credit-sale , conditional sale , of HP agreement ; or there are business arrangements between them . |
| 19 | What joins the various devices under a common heading is the fact that in all cases the discourses invoked are spoken through by a voice which has little or no inherent identity of its own but is defined as a principle of interrogative conjunction . |
| 20 | The distinctive features of railway activities affect organization and management-workforce relations independently of the fact that in most countries of the world the major railway networks are owned and run by the state , and everywhere without exception they are subject to close state regulation . |
| 21 | Excesses of this sort , however , did not alter the fact that in most respects the legal status of diplomats was , by the eighteenth century , more securely and satisfactorily established than ever before . |
| 22 | That the focusing preference here is at most a weak one is shown by the fact that in both cases , the wrong reading is still plausible , so the decision must be made on comparative , not absolute , grounds . |
| 23 | However , the co-existence of a lexical ambiguity in no way alters the fact that in both types of instance — ordinary structural ambiguity and the distinction between associative and ascriptive — there are two different patterns of relationship holding between elements of the linguistic structure . |
| 24 | Apart from the purely oppressive aspect — that these people felt that women must be seen and not heard , that taking part in an industrial struggle was not right for a woman — there was the undeniable fact that in these families money was desperately needed . |
| 25 | The fact that in these experiments there is no evidence for differentiation may mean only that differentiation produces less powerful effects than does mediation . |
| 26 | The reasoning of the courts in denying employee status to agency workers has been criticised by some academic lawyers as a failure to accept the reality of their objective situation.2 Equally important is the fact that in some cases the operations of " agencies " and " works contractors " are virtually identical . |
| 27 | From the fact that in some circumstances consent is valid , it does not follow that consent to the government 's authority is valid . |
| 28 | The idea that the rich world faces a rubbish crisis has been aggravated by the fact that in some countries new landfills have opened more slowly than old ones have closed . |
| 29 | Many now recall how happily Jews and Arabs lived together before 1948 , although it is a fact that in some parts of Palestine near civil war existed between the two communities long before that date . |
| 30 | I do not question the fact that in some parts of the country students are finding it difficult to make ends meet . |