Example sentences of "the fact that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Further evidence of Starfield 's commitment to quality is provided by the fact that every guitar which comes into the country is checked over by repairer Martyn Booth before being dispatched to the shops .
2 Its figures are complicated by the fact that every system sale made by SunExpress on behalf of SMCC in the US was counted by both it , and SMCC .
3 Maybe we are like a photocopy of God that got a bit crumpled and smudged as it came out of the machine so that his image in us has got a bit spoilt , but that does not alter the fact that every person has something of God about them .
4 When test results did not confirm this , they could still console themselves with the fact that every child had been given the same opportunity to learn .
5 Film is , thus , a potent medium for fostering cultural awareness among the Namibian people , and this becomes particularly important when we recognise the fact that every society expresses its soul through its culture .
6 Film is , thus , a potent medium for fostering cultural awareness among the Namibian people , and this becomes particularly important when we recognise the fact that every society expresses its soul through its culture .
7 From the standpoint of constructivism , the reason why associationist-representational theories so spectacularly fail to capture the essence of thought is that they ignore the fact that every thought , like every action , has , at some level , a purpose .
8 Neither of the least strategic value and yet , wherever you go in Europe , there is no escape from the fact that every atom of the continent has played some part in an interminable saga of warfare and violence .
9 If politicians came to the conclusion that education was too important to be left to the educators , bear in mind the massive input of public resources , education 's failure to demonstrate significant improvement of standards , poor marketing , uncertain professional leadership and the fact that every year youngsters leave school ignorant of much they might reasonably be expected to know and lacking skills that could have been acquired in 11 years of schooling .
10 Rather they are emphasising the fact that every programme they show has been seen before , at least once although they are saying that they are ‘ devoted to Britain 's favourite TV programmes ’ .
11 They were far more interested in time than were the Greeks , but the fact that every moment was regarded as the manifestation of supernatural forces meant that the concept of time which dominated Maya thought was purely astrological .
12 This European — or , to be more exact , Euro-Christian — involvement in Lebanon was to be a recurring theme , facilitated by the fact that every community in the land that was to become Lebanon was a minority .
13 Is he ashamed of the fact that every month he has been in office reading standards of seven-year-olds have fallen ?
14 This followed from the fact that no compensation was payable for the loss of development value in cases where planning permission was refused .
15 The fact that no part of the fine was payable to an individual damaged was regarded as evidence that Parliament did not intend the statute to give rise to an action .
16 Another factor of course er was the fact that no state then could conscript , could , could in fact force people to serve in its armies and so on erm manpower was , was limited .
17 The rapid expansion of combined or multi-modal transport in the 1960's , and the fact that no convention or treaty existed covering such transport led the ICC to publish a set of Uniform Rules for a Combined Transport Document ( ’ CTD ’ ) in 1973 , and to revise these rules in 1975 ( ’ CTD Rules ’ ) .
18 This is due to the fact that no lintel was placed in there when the building was erected .
19 If the model is travelling at some speed and/or a sharp turn is made , it will in fact gain height despite the fact that no back cyclic is applied .
20 This group is remarkable not only for the quality of its work , but also for the fact that no individual has ever been known by name ; only the corporate identity has come down across the years .
21 The fact that no contribution was made to the pension fund during the 31 weeks by the plaintiff would not result in a diminution of his pension .
22 This old wives ' tale is amazingly persistent , despite the fact that no cat could possibly relax and sleep on top of a squirming , suffocating baby .
23 In all of these case an alleged offence ensures mandatory and indeterminate hospitalisation despite the fact that no trial has taken place in the former category while no conviction has been recorded in the latter .
24 The CDP also expressed its concern at the fact that no polytechnic director had been on the visiting party ( in fact , when the visiting party was first put together , it did include i polytechnic director , who withdrew at the last moment ) .
25 The mouth is stretched in what would be a howl but for the fact that no air is passing .
26 Well British Steel adopted a somewhat more subtler tactic er they make a strong point of the fact that no money has ever been removed from the scheme despite the presence of a six hundred surplus .
27 But our judge might be able to guarantee this by making plain that he intends the new rule to govern all future cases , and that the exception for Elmer was made possible only by the fact that no judge had laid down a similar rule before Elmer committed his crime .
28 The root of the trouble lies in the fact that no segment of a polycyclic river has a perfectly smooth concave profile , so that the formula gives a curve with an approximate fit .
29 The fact that no recombination between Oct-11b and Bcl-2 was observed in 59 mice suggests the two loci reside within 5 cM ( upper 95% confidence limit ) .
30 ( The fact that no answer can be given to those questions poses a more serious one : ‘ Did the tribunal give reasons for its decision ? ’ )
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