Example sentences of "is [vb pp] by the fact " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her affection for the Bomb is explained by the fact that it is energy-charged and penis-shaped . |
| 2 | This is explained by the fact that the unemployment rate is lower among Protestants generally and that Easton 's population , besides being Protestant , is also disproportionately middle class . |
| 3 | The eerie lunar landscape of white spoil-heaps around St Austell is explained by the fact that there are eight tons of waste to every ton of china clay extracted . |
| 4 | This phenomenon is explained by the fact that elements can be introduced into mental models without being explicitly mentioned . |
| 5 | The extraordinary proximity of All Saints and St. John 's is explained by the fact that they form the neck of the bull . |
| 6 | This paradox is explained by the fact that in Britain the vast majority of older people are poor and there is therefore less difference in income levels between the group . |
| 7 | The large share of " other " personal service and " other " operatives working on a temporary basis is explained by the fact that they are in jobs for which little training is necessary . |
| 8 | This paradox is explained by the fact that the figures are of no relevance to the operation of the housing department throughout the rest of the year . |
| 9 | This apparent contradiction is explained by the fact that , overall , almost one in five IT specialists were continuing their studies , usually aiming for PhD qualifications . |
| 10 | This is explained by the fact that eradicating H pylori resolved the increased acid secretion caused by the increased antral gastrin release but did not resolve that caused by their exaggerated acid response to gastrin . |
| 11 | Such a concern is explained by the fact that these countries had repeatedly demonstrated their willingness to go to enormous lengths ( in effect taxing imports of capital , encouraging exports of capital and , even in the case of Japan , organizing plans for importing huge stockpiles of raw materials ) in order to prevent an upward movement of their currencies . |
| 12 | And the irony is compounded by the fact that Derrida goes out of his way to resist any kind of adequate treatment in a book like this . |
| 13 | Uncertainty and scientific dispute is compounded by the fact that radioactive contamination is different from many other types of pollution . |
| 14 | Climbing expeditions into the peaks themselves have also left behind piles of rubbish , and Cullen ( 1986 ) points out that the problem is compounded by the fact that in such a high Alpine environment decomposition rates are very slow so that discarded materials may persist for several years if not decades . |
| 15 | The complicated picture that emerges from this variability in the relative expectations that we have of reward or loss from criminal as against conforming behaviour is compounded by the fact that our different needs and requirements may often pull in quite different directions . |
| 16 | The unfairness of such a result is compounded by the fact that , as a litigant , [ the defendant ] would be able to avail itself of the … procedures against plaintiffs . |
| 17 | The problem is compounded by the fact that children in the junior school are increasingly expected to read silently , and thus without help . |
| 18 | Inefficiency in the clinics and the universities is compounded by the fact that research groups tend to be small and isolated , shunning collaborative links with other small groups , either locally or nationally . |
| 19 | and this is compounded by the fact that the executive branch has given up any attempt to control the military-industrial complex . |
| 20 | The problem is compounded by the fact that we have not been told the prices realised by the sale of the NBC 's subsidiary companies . |
| 21 | 2.7 The difficulty is compounded by the fact that the idea of association can correspond to a wide range of referential or " factual " relationships ( just as can the ascriptive use of an adjective or the qualifying use of a subordinate noun ) ; and , importantly , this is true not only of those relations that can ultimately be reduced to arrangements of objects in the physical world , but also of those that depend on human judgements and evaluations , e.g. relations of loving or resemblance ; all these we shall consider as factual relations by contrast with syntactic relations . |
| 22 | It is compounded by the fact that later in the game Strach also tires and can not pressurise his full-back , or cover Kelly so well . |
| 23 | Such difficulty is compounded by the fact that Britten wrote the part of Grimes with Peter Pears in mind . |
| 24 | The problem is compounded by the fact that the term means different things to different people . |
| 25 | The non-party element is emphasized by the fact that not all the chairmen are government supporters . |
| 26 | One consequence of the exclusive pursuit of the selfish and self-indulgent ethos of the naked fabliau is that the Shipman 's Tale , unlike the majority of the French fabliaux , contains no concluding moral , ending instead on the selfish prayer : The failure of a moral to appear here is emphasized by the fact that the Host immediately tries to draw a moral from the tale — an appropriately pragmatic one : It could and has been held that the Shipman 's Tale is thereby amoral . |
| 27 | Second , our apprehension is aroused by the fact that during sleep we seem to lose control of our minds . |
| 28 | Most of the sample were male ( 94 per cent ) , aged between seventeen and twenty-four ( 61 per cent ) and the risk of further offending and custody is highlighted by the fact that over half of the sample had committed an offence within a year of the current offence . |
| 29 | The major significance of the Government 's changes is highlighted by the fact that , whereas SERPS held out the prospect of guaranteeing every pensioner an income above the supplementary pension level , no Government minister had felt able to give a similar guarantee for the Thatcher pension reform . |
| 30 | For instance , usury was not a sin in the Jewish laws so his way of living , which is seen as immoral by Christian terms , is justified by the fact that he is abiding by his own laws . |