Example sentences of "and by the fact " in BNC.
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| 1 | Geoff Williams , another former holder , and Phil Whitlock , an England international , have both declined to play because they are disappointed with the marketing of the championships and by the fact that the prize fund has descended from £16,780 to £9,000 despite the presence of television . |
| 2 | Geoff Williams , another former holder , and Phil Whitlock , an England international , have both declined to play because they are disappointed with the marketing of the championships and by the fact that the prize fund has descended from £16,780 to £9,000 despite the presence of television . |
| 3 | Suddenly , Nigel felt annoyed by her manner and by the fact that she had brought him nothing . |
| 4 | Even so , the beginning of an English influence is suggested by the brothers ' first names and by the fact that William 's second name , Justavus , is spelled that way , indicating an English pronunciation , instead of the more usual Gustavus . |
| 5 | Observation and assessment confirmed that Gary was indeed showing all these behaviours , but also revealed that they were being heavily reinforced by attention from his parents and by the fact that the shouting and temper tantrums usually resulted in Gary 's getting his own way . |
| 6 | Gloucestershire may well have been influenced by this being Walsh 's benefit year , a traditionally powerful distraction , and by the fact that he could be thought out of touch , having missed last season due to the West Indies tour . |
| 7 | No gurus there either , simply 70 teachers , scandalised by the whole concept of a National Curriculum , and by the fact that no party opposes it . |
| 8 | This approach was partly dictated by the committee 's terms of reference , which required it to take ‘ account of resource assumptions and other guidance which the Secretary of State … may give , ’ and by the fact that its secretariat was provided by the Department of Health 's Medical Manpower Executive . |
| 9 | Notwithstanding these restrictions , Basque officials are confident that the quality of the art works that will be transferred to Bilbao will be guaranteed by clauses in the agreement , and by the fact that , due to a lack of space in the New York Museum , only about one-seventh of the total Solomon Guggenheim collection can ever be exhibited there at any one time . |
| 10 | Here he is on the importance of the view of ‘ the other ’ to one 's sense of self : ‘ Self consciousness exists in and for itself , when , and by the fact that , it so exists for another ; that is , it exists only in being acknowledged ’ ( Hegel , 1979 , p. 111 ) . |
| 11 | The two main parts of Limoges were separated geographically and by the fact that each had its own enclosure . |
| 12 | Bowler felt that Minton was happiest when painting and would have been content with a quiet life had he not been driven by a need for others and by the fact that he could not bear to be on his own . |
| 13 | The picture plane is further emphasized by the complete lack of aerial perspective ( the far houses are , if anything , darker and stronger in value than the foreground house ) , and by the fact that occasionally contours are broken and forms opened up into each other . |
| 14 | Is the Minister alarmed by the news that appeared in the New York Times last Friday of the help that China has given to Algeria and North Korea in the advanced development of their nuclear weapons and by the fact that a new arms race for conventional and nuclear weapons is roaring ahead at an unprecedented rate ? |
| 15 | One of the most important parts of investment is inward investment into this country , which is very much encouraged by our low rates of tax — by our low rates of corporation tax and by the fact that we have a low higher rate of income of tax . |
| 16 | However , this was more than counterbalanced by the amount of matériel and troops shipped to the Nationalists by Germany , Italy and Portugal ; by the British and French prohibition on the sale of arms to the Republic ; and by the fact that many of the Soviet arms purchases never reached the Republic because they were destroyed in transit by enemy action or were retained in France . |
| 17 | 5.3 There are two further reasons for not accepting any sort of identification between adverbal adjectives and predicate qualifiers , apart from the indications given by ambiguity , and by the fact that they correspond to different types of question , and by the intuitively close relationship which is found in many cases between a verb + adverbal adjective pair and a single lexical verb . |
| 18 | The woman was definitely shocked , and by the fact that I 've never bathed my child . |
| 19 | Sentence ( 5 ) connects with ( 4 ) because of a number of features : the repetition of " dream vision " ; the logical connection indicated by " so " ; the connection in meaning between " world " and the phrase " social and cultural reality " ; and by the fact that " his " refers back to the " contemporary reader " . |
| 20 | Even before the final settlement was reached , Montgomerie , disillusioned by William 's stalling tactics and by the fact that his own personal political ambitions had been frustrated , turned to plotting , attempting to build up an alliance of Club members and Jacobites who would be able to " bring home King James in a Parliamentary way " . |
| 21 | This is not to deny that plan-making is a very valuable function of our local authorities ; it is rather to point out that the existing powers to implement their plans are restricted by the price that the market puts on some land , and by the fact that the planners ' resource is in the hands of private owners rather than at the disposal of the community . |
| 22 | As her opening music rang out , she ran up to the wings , her spirits considerably buoyed up by knowing her father was in the audience , and by the fact that she 'd felt a tiny but unmistakable buzz of excitement on hearing those familiar chords . |
| 23 | The European-wide recession has been chiefly to blame , along with competition from American companies aided by a weak dollar in 1992 and by the fact that Novaceta 's European customers have faced tough competition from Far East textile manufacturers . |