Example sentences of "fact [that] [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What concerned him more was the fact that Myles had once contemplated suicide . |
| 2 | She spoke in innocence of the fact that Knockglen had once thought that she herself might be the ideal child for them . |
| 3 | But Patrick Jenkin , the Secretary of State for Industry , and Peter Benton , chairman of British Telecom Enterprises and deputy chairman of BT , showed themselves curiously ignorant of the fact that Britain has still not nominated a VIP for the WCY Committee of Honour . |
| 4 | The fact that France had already received the lion 's share of new European component investment over the previous five years was beside the point . |
| 5 | So far , this war is more popular than were those in Korea , Suez or the Falklands at the outset — though that may simply reflect the fact that casualties have so far been so light . |
| 6 | The fact that nurses represent approximately half of the labour force of the National Health Service underlines the size of the difficulties which lie ahead . |
| 7 | But what she did not know was what had happened to those interests — or to him — since Simon 's death , apart from the fact that Vitor had immediately retired from racing . |
| 8 | Other people find it easier to accept the fact that Jesus felt totally deserted in the moment of pain and agony just before death . |
| 9 | This argument is based on the fact that X-cells have better spatial resolution than Y-cells while the latter have better temporal resolution , plus the fact that Y-cells tend to respond only transiently to sustained contrast . |
| 10 | Doing her best to ignore the sight of his bare torso , it was some moments before she recalled the fact that Ross had never worn any pyjamas . |
| 11 | Because of the fact that unit costs only raise red flags , the onus is on any analyst who is comparing statistics between authorities to explore all the possible explanations for differences before coming to conclusions . |
| 12 | It was Mr. Newman 's submission that the matters to which regard should be had in the present case were ( 1 ) the lapse of time between the commission of the alleged offences and the request for extradition , and ( 2 ) the fact that the accusation against the applicant was contrary to the interests of justice , in that it would lead to the trial of the applicant in Sweden on the basis of the record of Price 's evidence , despite the fact that Price had subsequently retracted that evidence in this country in so far as it implicated the applicant . |
| 13 | She was cynically amused by the fact that Lorimer seemed so familiar with this form of ingress into the Salamanca manse . |
| 14 | It is an unfortunate fact that Klein has almost no sociological theory , and that Marcuse has no therapeutic theory . |
| 15 | There is no doubt either that despite the fact that wartime needs generally produced a slight upward trend in money wages , the usual earnings of rural labourers in the South and East , especially when periods of unemployment are taken into account , fell short of need . |
| 16 | Delectable though you are , even you ca n't change the fact that Peter has never understood exactly what the word ‘ fidelity ’ means . ’ |
| 17 | But Guy would have staked his own soul on the fact that Isabel had never lain with a man . |
| 18 | She has since discovered that owner Pauline and her colleague Sue are both very knowledgeable and extremely helpful in spite of the fact that Tessa had obviously bought her machine elsewhere . |
| 19 | to , because , one of the main points about the embarrassing er aspect , mainly boys sniggering and giggling , whatever , maybe some girls do , but it 's mainly er , males , I think a point to be made there is , it is a well known fact that boys took longer to mature emotionally than girls and I think if it was a guy a younger guy , maybe in his late twenties , early thirties teaching it , and if he had the sort of guts to turn round and the bravery to say look son , what is it you 're laughing at , what 's so funny ? |
| 20 | One example of the function of the symbolism of space is the fact that artefacts have always made an impression on us by virtue of their exotic qualities . |
| 21 | In the end , Matza 's argument is not so much an attack on correctionalism as an assertion of the not very original point that , whatever your starting assumption , it is best to keep your mind open to all possibilities ( although he was right to draw attention to the fact that correctionalists had often been guilty of not doing so ) . |
| 22 | He has had a terrible month , ’ said Balding , referring to the fact that Frost has also lost the ride today on Morley Street , who attempts a hat-trick in the Martell Aintree Hurdle , with Richard Dunwoody aboard . |
| 23 | But this should not obscure from us the fact that Judaism resisted stoutly the prudery that stultified sexuality throughout the West , and always retained a high and honoured place for bodily functioning and its pleasures — as becomes indeed , a gift from God : ‘ Man and woman are one body and one soul , ( oneness reasserted , as ever ) , and it is this powerful union which it projects and enhances . |
| 24 | In contrast , the utility-based argument associated with Buchanan ( 1958 ) does not quarrel with when the resources are used but rather points to the fact that debt-holders have voluntarily taken up the debt and are being compensated for decreased present consumption by the enhanced future consumption that interest and repayment will allow , and hence are not made worse off . |
| 25 | Shearer explains : ‘ The fact that childhood has never been important enough to create an educational project around it shows how little thought is given to it . ’ |
| 26 | Inflation this year is now expected to be 3.5 per cent , with a similar figure next year , while unemployment is now expected to level off at about 3.1 million this year and next , reflecting the fact that companies have already shed labour faster than in previous cycles . |
| 27 | Female danger/power also rested on the fact that women occupied structurally marginal positions ( i.e. neither fully inside nor outside the system , not wholly nature nor culture ) and on the fact that society placed them in interstructural roles ( as wives and daughters ) with respect to alliance-making and linking disparate power groups . |
| 28 | A final twist is given to this situation ; the fact that women do all of this work is often given as an explanation of their inferiority . |
| 29 | The fact that Nadia has only the little finger on each hand has not produced one incident of teasing from the 90 pupils at the Borders preparatory school . |
| 30 | The fact that Governors need only pay £20 flabbergasted me … anyone desiring the privilege of that title should certainly be asked to contribute £50pa . |