Example sentences of "fact that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is indeed a fact that the greatest prize in Europe is the completion of the single market . |
| 2 | It is an observable fact that the greatest drivers I have known have all been highly safety conscious : a sign that their minds ruled their instincts . |
| 3 | The fact that the rational expectations hypothesis is a free-standing set of criteria which can be applied to a wide variety of macroeconomic models was rarely grasped by early Keynesian critics . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The affinity between France and England at this time could be illustrated by the fact that the diplomatic representatives of both kingdoms studied at Paris . |
| 6 | Apart from the fact that the Grand Army obviously suspect him , he 's getting too independent , not to mention unstable . |
| 7 | ‘ It is a regrettable fact that the existing literature on the subject points to market selection as being an informal decision . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is easier to start , however , with the simple fact that the chemical composition inside an organism is different from that outside . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It uses this analysis to explain the otherwise puzzling fact that the diffident schoolboy does know but can not claim to know . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers . |
| 15 | The difficulty lies in the fact that the governmental authorities , however highly principled and dedicated to the welfare of the citizenry , are essentially a vested interest running an organization which , to a greater or lesser degree , is designed to preserve and promote the continuing control of those same authorities . |
| 16 | More ominous for the future was the fact that the central authorities were learning how to control and transport huge numbers of peasants . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The fact that a greater variety of messages may be broadcast on a vastly greater scale does not alter the fact that the central messages are still and more powerfully those of the capitalist global system . |
| 19 | ( 4 ) He explicitly introduced the fact that the committing justices had found a case to answer whereby the jury may have been influenced adversely to the appellant . |
| 20 | 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 … |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | However , some of these could be explained by the fact that the temporary workers were also part-timers ( who were , in any case , excluded from particular benefits ) , or that certain benefits were available only to workers with a minimum service record . |
| 23 | That Forster and the local Nazis knew as much is evidenced by the fact that the 1935 election was the dirtiest and most dubious of the Danzig NSDAP 's victories . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | It certainly looked more suited to planting telephone poles than megaliths — despite the fact that the closest phone was in Makassar — and throughout the ensuing month its groans and screams would punctuate the festivities . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The importance of this can be seen from the fact that the Thirty Tyrants who seized power briefly in 404–3 BC decreed that only 3000 citizens should retain the right to trial , while all others could be summarily executed by government order . |