Example sentences of "fact that they have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you know about the fact that they 'd been captured ? |
| 2 | Oh yes you mean the fact that they 've been in flower ? |
| 3 | Well I do n't know whether they 'd get it but they do n't want to upset people , the fact that they 've been really inconvenienced by not having it does n't seem to come into their thinking . |
| 4 | When asked if their shefi acted in too authoritarian a manner , some kolkhozniki at first said it was very rare , but then in peasant fashion slowly warmed up to the fact that they had been very angered by some young students who had written in Rabochii put ’ that their horses were badly fed and cleaned , and that they had not sown enough crops . |
| 5 | There was more than a touch of arrogance to the assumption , and clashes with governments , who could at least point to the fact that they had been elected , were inevitable . |
| 6 | Thiercelin , for instance , had no idea of the fact that they had been listening to the work of the greatest composer of the day . |
| 7 | Despite the fact that they had been trying to kill each other , against the creature they were united . |
| 8 | The number of neutrons was not enough to account for all the heat ( a fact that they had been aware . |
| 9 | The fact that they had been warned off but made it the more attractive . |
| 10 | Four pairs of eyes fastened momentarily on this and absorbed the fact that they had been cheated . |
| 11 | The government parties , while stating that the reasons for the protests were " understandable " , condemned the fact that they had been carried out , accusing the organizers of belonging to the extreme left and of using the political prisoner issue to further their own aims . |
| 12 | If so , then the reasons for this are probably related to the fact that they have been the party of government and their ideas are consequently more newsworthy ; that they have displayed greater skill and exerted greater effort in publicising their views ; and that the other parties delayed the formulation of their interpretations of the concept . |
| 13 | The success of these names is shown by the fact that they have been admired by Chinese scholars such as Dr Lin Yutang , Dr Cheng Te-K'un , Dr Hollington Tong and others . |
| 14 | The fact that they have been invited shows me how stone-cold almost sure Conrad Black had been of a Tory victory . |
| 15 | The fact that they have been asked to continue until the next World Cup makes good common sense and I hope it is a sign that at long last someone at the top is finally making the right decisions . |
| 16 | Research has also indicated that many members of the upper strata owe their position primarily to the fact that they have been born into those strata and have capitalized on the advantages provided by their social background . |
| 17 | Councillors feel that the fact that they have been elected gives them a right to some independence . |
| 18 | " Thus in the case of two drops of water " he says — " we can abstract altogether from all internal difference ( of quality and quantity ) , and the mere fact that they have been intuited simultaneously in different spatial positions is sufficient justification for holding them to be numerically different . |
| 19 | Often these can provide extremely useful teaching material , despite the fact that they have been produced for the general public , rather than with a school 's audience in mind . |