Example sentences of "fact that [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a more profound unpredictability , in spite of the fact that probably a good proportion of workers were employed for long periods of their lives by a single employer . |
| 2 | Cermait said , rather huffily , that it was a well-known fact that even an acorn-full of poteen sent you fast asleep , and Fintan gave vent to a derisive hoot . |
| 3 | In spite of the fact that even the best of his songs can seem surprisingly flat on the page , his vocal performance compels a belief in the aptness of the words . |
| 4 | Obviously , then , the fact that 200,000 Greek Cypriots ( a third of the population ) were kicked out of their homes by the Turkish invaders , thus becoming refugees in their own country , is not a crime , according to Mr Gustafson ; nor is the fact that 80,000 settlers were imported from Turkey in an attempt to alter the demographic composition of the island ; nor is the fact that 1,619 people are still reported as missing in action almost 17 years after the invasion ; nor is the fact that the Turks are destroying every trace of the 3,000-year-old Greek culture that exists in the occupied territories , a fact that even the Turkish Cypriot press often reports . |
| 5 | The City loves to play up the fact that even the giant ogre , Deutsche Bank , came to London to buy its merchant banking arm , Morgan Grenfell . |
| 6 | The fact that normally the two brothers-in-law got along very peaceably made this present exchange particularly acrimonious . |
| 7 | That Mar failed where Monck and William of Orange had succeeded is partly related to military factors , but also reflects the fact that neither the domestic political crisis was so severe nor popular disaffection so widespread in 1714 – 15 as it had been in either 1659 – 60 or 1688 – 9 . |
| 8 | So all the rhetoric that we 've had from this government about better performance N H S , more people being seen by the N H S , that must be read against the fact that over a million people are , or a million patients , are er waiting on N H S waiting lists . |
| 9 | Can I also highlight the fact that over a hundred thousand people attended R Y A training courses of one sort or another last year . |
| 10 | These views are consistent with the fact that both the isothermal segmental mobility and shrinkage-time behaviour can be characterised by , — the Kohlrausch-Williams-Watts relaxation function . |
| 11 | This is a result of the fact that only a partial 16S sequence is available for these two cytoplasmic incompatibility microorganisms . |
| 12 | And doubts were expressed as to its value given the conceded fact that only a small dent was likely to be made in the pigeon population . |
| 13 | If country banks were a product of the latter half of the eighteenth century , country banking functionally defined has a longer history , despite the fact that only a dozen institutions formally known as banks were in existence before 1750 . |
| 14 | What sometimes causes a little confusion to strangers is the fact that virtually the same region often goes under other names . |
| 15 | Of course , to wrap this up , I suppose there 's one other fact that perhaps the low votes in local government could be seen as w either two things depending on whether you 're an optimist or a pessimist I suppose it 's , it 's a bit of the argument like if you 've got a half gla and is your glass half empty or is your glass half full you know ? |