Example sentences of "the fact that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government should be negotiating to gain full recognition of the fact that monetary union and a single currency could work successfully only if there were convergence in the real economic performance of countries : convergence in terms of growth and employment , as well as in terms of inflation and interest rates . |
| 2 | Equally important was the fact that various ideas and fashions developed in the West answered a native need for new forms of expression . |
| 3 | However , despite the fact that various combinations of social variables were statistically significant predictors of utilisation none were included in the new weighted capitation formula . |
| 4 | I think just the fact that my wife knew what was going on , and knew the problems exactly you know , they had their own meetings and the food parcels that they could organize , you know I would n't have a clue how to go about it , the fact that various shops refused to have collection points inside , and they wrote off to the management of these shops and got that changed . |
| 5 | This exclusion of higher education from consideration by sociologists of education must in part be due to the fact that higher education is not compulsory ; it is perhaps difficult to argue that something which is a matter of choice can in any sense be repressive . |
| 6 | We can not ignore the fact that long-held attitudes were in the process of change . |
| 7 | Despite the fact that religious influence declines throughout the nineteenth century ( in the fields of work , welfare , education and government ) , and social disharmony increases as the gap between the poor and rich widens , the century remains essentially one of optimism . |
| 8 | Even more worrying is the fact that latent inhibition does not suffer from overshadowing and blocking in the way that normal conditioning does . |
| 9 | Clearly , theories of this sort must be extended in some way if they are to accommodate the fact that latent inhibition depends in part on what the target stimulus predicts . |
| 10 | More critical for our present concern ( which is the need to explain the context-specificity of latent inhibition ) is the fact that latent inhibition can be abolished by a change of context even when the test context is fully familiar , provided that pre-exposure to the test context and the target stimulus have taken place separately . |
| 11 | The clinical significance of the motor abnormality is also confirmed by the fact that rectal sensation and the rectoanal inhibitory reflex were not significantly changed in our patients . |
| 12 | This quality derives from the fact that oral speech involves face-to-face contact and also that oral languages are less widespread than written languages and so are shared by smaller groups . |
| 13 | The duplication of titles amongst the different types of institution studied in Sheffield was found to be very low , and in view of the fact that cooperative acquisition is not simple to introduce and that central purchasing agencies tend to delay orders , the authors recommended against it . |
| 14 | In the light of W. McCready 's findings in another study that the religious behaviour of the father had a greater impact on children , Greeley considered the fact that catholic schools were having an increasing influence on men to be of significant importance for the future of Roman catholicism in the USA ( 1976 : 173–5 ) . |
| 15 | I have called this story the Spirit Entity because it illustrates the fact that earthbound factions are still very active , and making their presence felt in so many unexpected ways . |
| 16 | The fact that regular exercise is beneficial is therefore beyond question . |
| 17 | Despite the fact that regular maintenance was a statutory requirement and despite some successful legal actions to enforce the statutory provisions , regular dredging and attention to leaks were perfunctory or never carried out at all by canal companies owned by the railways . |
| 18 | Another stresses the fact that minimum population thresholds are necessary to maintain particular services and that , therefore , the most effective way of reducing or halting rural service decline is to concentrate growth and development in a limited number of locations ( Green 1971 ) . |
| 19 | There is no gainsaying the fact that London-born Eleanor Bowen has come a long way since her last exhibition at the Durham Art Gallery some eight years ago . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , and irrespective of the debate on the degree of influence of annual weather variations on long-term ozone trends , the fact that 101 areas in the country failed to meet the 0.12 ppm ozone standard in 1988 is extremely worrying . |
| 21 | Of importance here is the fact that 14 interviewees ( 23 per cent ) were regular users of another opioid , principally Diconal , eight of them on a daily basis . |
| 22 | Despite this increase in size , and the fact that regional aid can contribute a significant input of resources to any particular area , it still remains the case that the extent of Community regional assistance is small , amounting to just 25 per cent of the total EC budget by 1992 . |
| 23 | It has long been established that a defendant may be required to discover documents under his control but situated abroad ; in the early cases , the fact that relevant documents were in Calcutta or in Tobago led merely to an extension in the time allowed for their production . |
| 24 | Granted that one is clear about that , the fact that relevant statements of what human beings can and can not do come in various strengths is not so important . |
| 25 | Hence the fact that single-brand ski/boot/binding systems are imminent from Atomic , Tyrolia and Rossignol . |
| 26 | The dirty price is now below the clean price , reflecting the fact that accrued interest is negative . |
| 27 | Moscovitch found support for his proposition in the fact that split-brain patients sometimes begin to write with the left hand what is clearly a correct response to a stimulus seen in the left visual field , but that then the left hemisphere takes over control and the response is finished incorrectly since the left half of the brain has not seen the stimulus ( Levy , Mebes and Sperry , 1971 ) . |
| 28 | While the environmental attractions of moving out may remain as strong as ever , the financial advantage from the fact that southern prices boomed first has largely disappeared . |
| 29 | Even if this is true — and it is disputed by animal and human studies — the argument overlooks the fact that reproductive defects may appear in workers ' female children . |
| 30 | Rather than view the Sancton-Baston pottery as the products of individual potters or workshops ( Myres 1969 ; 1977 ) , the fact that five sets of dies were cut to produce a minimum of nine vessels suggests that the decoration of the pottery may have had a totemic significance to individual families . |