Example sentences of "fact [that] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the perfect foil for her colouring ; she looked cool and composed and that was how she would behave tonight , despite the fact that even the thought of having to spend an evening in Nicolo 's company made her stomach clench . |
| 2 | For example , in the Stapleton case in 1975 the defendant was acquitted of rape despite the fact that even the judge in passing sentence had said : ‘ I have no doubt you instilled terror into this woman when you went into that room and made your intentions quite clear ’ . |
| 3 | So we are faced with the amazing fact that neither the insistence on English superiority nor a savage level of English military aggression was enough to produce widespread , let alone total , resistance by a people who for well over two centuries had determinedly and successfully resisted both . |
| 4 | Despite the fact that neither the Model Code nor the Take-over Code have the force of law , they do represent important statements of commercial morality and at times breach of them may have legal consequences . |
| 5 | We now know in fact that neither the proton nor the neutron is elementary but that they are made up of smaller particles . |
| 6 | ‘ Difficult , ’ agreed Henry , ‘ and made more so , I imagine , by the fact that both the Coroner and the Chairman of the Magistrates ’ Bench were there . ’ |
| 7 | Until recently the role of the Court of Appeal in structuring the discretion of Crown Court sentencers was further constrained by the fact that only the defendant could appeal against sentence . |
| 8 | Equation ( 8.22 ) is the expression for the combinatorial entropy of mixing of an athermal polymer solution and comparison with equation ( 8.7 ) shows that they are similar in form except for the fact that now the volume fraction is found to be the most convenient way of expressing the entropy change , rather than the mole fraction used for small molecules . |
| 9 | The need to rely on the local aristocracy — common to all rulers — was accentuated by the fact that often the pope was chosen from among their number . |
| 10 | Unlike the vast majority of computer-using social scientists , a basic difference lies in the fact that currently the work of the historian focuses around the computerization of documentary sources originally compiled for manual purposes . |
| 11 | so surely the arguments hinge upon the fact that perhaps the government is likely to be inefficient , corrupt , bureaucratic , whatever . |