Example sentences of "fact [that] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | this case also dealt with the fact that the deceased mother had worked full time and this aunt had given up her job to look after the children . |
| 2 | Apart from the fact that the Grand Army obviously suspect him , he 's getting too independent , not to mention unstable . |
| 3 | ‘ It is a regrettable fact that the existing literature on the subject points to market selection as being an informal decision . |
| 4 | Quite apart from the fact that the existing state of the sewers is hardly good enough , the assumption of a 100 year life-span for sewers becomes increasingly unrealistic . |
| 5 | It is easier to start , however , with the simple fact that the chemical composition inside an organism is different from that outside . |
| 6 | One important feature of the ground battle for which the Allied forces at all levels were profoundly grateful was the fact that the chemical warfare attacks for which they had prepared the protective equipment described in the San Francisco Chronicle of 19 February 1991 never materialized . |
| 7 | It uses this analysis to explain the otherwise puzzling fact that the diffident schoolboy does know but can not claim to know . |
| 8 | They can often be blind to the fact that the good child may be stirring up the problem and letting the naughty one get the blame . |
| 9 | Starting off with paragraph thirty three of P P G three , , erm you 'll see in my statement that I 've actually in seeking to address point A dealt with each of the conditions that P P G three er refers to , for which a new settlement should be contemplated , and you will see that I 've reached a conclusion that having regarded the unique circumstances of York , the Greater York new settlement does represent an appropriate and justified policy response , you 'll se also see my statement , I 've taken some comfort from the fact that the good practice guide that has been published by the department of the environment , has endorsed the approach that North Yorkshire County Council has taken towards the special circumstances of the Greater York area . |
| 10 | For example 1,530 persons were reevacuated to the Saratov guberniia in early June , despite the fact that the Central Evacuation Department had taken 2,151 refugees away from there in late May . |
| 11 | Occasionally that plan backfired and a genuine neurotic would arrive , soon to engage all and sundry in a lengthy discourse about the cold , the warmth and the fact that the automatic door was n't being automatic why oh why oh why do people keep leaving it open , ca n't they think of others for a change , you 'd have thought it was n't too much trouble … |
| 12 | The fact that the 100-minute film screened on Sunday April 19 as part of the Screen Two season was directed by jack Clayton conveys something of its quality . |
| 13 | The North American flavour was emphasized by the fact that the simple station buildings contained ‘ the traditional bay window on the low platform , housing the station-agent — operator 's office with the usual table in the bay complete with telegraph instruments , sounders , telephones , and so on ’ . |
| 14 | This inability of the court to intervene is founded on the fact that the applicable law is not the common law of England but a peculiar or domestic law of which the visitor is the sole judge . |
| 15 | However , for a discount security with more than six months ( 182 days ) to maturity , the bond equivalent yield has to take into account the fact that the corresponding bond makes two coupon payments and that interest is earned by investing the first coupon . |
| 16 | Do not the upholders of law have daily experience of the fact that the greedy society so desired by Conservative Members must inevitably be a bad one ? |
| 17 | The fact that the endometrial sampling is not listed in the statement of fees and allowances ( section 42 , minor surgery ) as a minor surgical procedure for which payment may be made would preclude most from adding vabra curettage to their repertoire . |
| 18 | A blurred picture taken with a slow-speed camera shows that the clubhead has , indeed , caught up with the hands at address , a fact that the high-speed camera fails to detect . |
| 19 | Although it is unclear , the fact that the putative market counterparty must be dealing in the course of investment business seems to restrict transactional test market counterparties who enter into futures contracts with the firm as principal to persons , such as securities firms or banks , which are authorised under the FSA . |
| 20 | By contrast , in this example , the fact that the unanticipated change in the money supply is zero , coupled with the inclusion of the ‘ correct ’ model depicted in Figure 7.6 in the information set , will generate a similarly perfect forecast of the new equilibrium level of output in period t , that is , Y 2 . |
| 21 | Given the fact that the temporal relation between means and end is clearly one of before to after , and the fact that when used with an infinitive how denotes the means and the infinitive the end , our hypothesis leads us to predict that to should be found after how . |
| 22 | Part of our understanding of the nature of mathematics must also involve a recognition of the fact that the symbolic representation used in any society is simply a particular convention . |
| 23 | They decried the fact that the Non-Aligned Movement in its approach to the creation of a zone of peace in Southeast Asia ‘ is very one-sidedly oriented to the initiative of the ASEAN member states ’ . |
| 24 | Morland 's attempts to stay independent are made tougher by the fact that the Suffolk-based predator … |
| 25 | That the advertisement had been in a church magazine was , for my grandfather , sufficient guarantee of respectability , but when the boys arrived in the great city even their inexperience could not hide from them the fact that the respectable lodging was nothing more nor less than a brothel . |
| 26 | Assuming it to be out there somewhere they have joined forces with the Utopians and Marxists and missed the fact that the spiritual galaxy for which they are searching is like the Milky Way . |
| 27 | The installation of pre-payment meters is one reason why the number of disconnections has fallen , but more important is the fact that the regional electricity companies , under the terms of their licence , have to approve a code of conduct with the Office of Electricity Regulation and must offer customers who are in genuine difficulties a payment plan so that debt can be paid off over a period . |
| 28 | Neil , as it happens , is himself a committed Scot , but the Scottish-based executives say that it is not the current incumbent of that post , but the fact that the regional directorate enjoys ultimate power of veto which worries them . |
| 29 | But are n't , are n't changes are n't these changes er in Russia and in China forced upon them to a degree by circumstances , by the fact that the outside world immediately withdraws and opposes a rising of the people as a whole against the established government er I mean we 've seen in recent times with Iran and so on have n't we ? |
| 30 | Those differences were important despite the fact that the actual concept of service of process is relatively straightforward . |