Example sentences of "not [verb] the fact " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can not evade the fact that we are cultural Americans , dreaming American dreams . ’ |
| 2 | I am not ignoring that it may be said that this in one sense is proving idem per idem , but none the less I do not think the fact can be ignored . |
| 3 | Furthermore , bearing in mind the reservations about changes in different varieties that I expressed in section 5.2 above , the early date suggested here for the loss of the velar fricative does not affect the fact that there are dialects of English ( in Lowland Scotland ) which have not yet lost the fricative . |
| 4 | For Joan , though she had not recognized the fact until that instant when the words crossed her lips , had meant what she said . |
| 5 | DEC appears to have chosen not to publicise the fact — reported here back in February ( UX No 423 ) that its preferred Unix implementation , OSF/1 , can also run Unix SVR4 and Ultrix applications natively — the built-in compatibility framework that allows this is now being called Habitat . |
| 6 | She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent . |
| 7 | That 's a reality , and I do n't see why this office should not consider the fact that they may have to get involved in that . |
| 8 | Her husband , David , said today : ‘ It was not until yesterday 's hearing that the centre said it was not challenging the fact she died of Legionnaire 's Disease . ’ |
| 9 | Further , the salesperson who does not respect the fact that the buyer is likely to be a busy person , with many demands on his time , may cause irritation on the part of the buyer . |
| 10 | Although the speaker is obviously not denying the fact that the Senate dared to criticize the National Film Board in this use , he is saying on the other hand that he would not have thought it possible for Senators to dare to do such a thing , given the sacrosanct character of the media . |
| 11 | He had not missed the fact that last night she had studiously ignored the paintings in the house . |
| 12 | She had not missed the fact that the coffee-table was piled high with past copies of Query and his arrogant manner was beginning to annoy her to such an extent that she was just about ready to storm off through the door and let Mr Parnham make of it what he could . |
| 13 | In considering whether these reasons are strong enough , we should not neglect the fact that some offences of manslaughter lie well above the lower boundaries of liability and fall little short of murder . |
| 14 | The prevalence of poverty among this group remains very high , although we should not neglect the fact that there are a minority of affluent elderly . |
| 15 | There would seem to be no reason why the drafter should not recite the fact that the business 's insurance cover is limited in the standard terms , as an indication of the reason for the limitation . |
| 16 | That 's not to lessen the fact that there will be an impact , clearly there will be . |
| 17 | She hesitated while searching for an answer that would not betray the fact that she longed to remain in Stella 's place but that she feared for her own emotional state . |
| 18 | He did not like the fact that his potential assassins had got so close to the Hotel where he was staying . |
| 19 | She has from day one showed her disdain for me as one opposed to hypocrisy and her type of esoteric or pseudo intellectuality — being satisfied as I am with intelligence , integrity and interest ( ! ) — and has manifestly made it clear she overtly dislikes me because I wo n't be moulded or do what she wants or tells me — she suffers the matriarch/ bossy syndrome ( childhood nickname I am told was ) and does not like the fact I am utterly my own forthright person who spoils the incestuous sibling smythe-watson quartet which she ‘ ran ’ so self-interestedly for so long … |
| 20 | We may not like the fact that they stop exports — they affect some of the exports of my constituency — but they are bloody-minded because they think that they , too , are getting a rotten deal from the CAP . |
| 21 | But if you can , if you can understand the difference between simple time and the compound time and er try not to muddle the fact that six eight does not mean that there are six quaver beats in a bar , but it means that there are two dotted beats , and two dotted crotchet beats in a bar and try and get that into your head as soon as you can you 're gon na find it a lot easier . |
| 22 | I think my transsexual obsession must have triggered puberty when I could not reconcile the fact of my being a girl with my intense crushes on other girls . |
| 23 | So why not celebrate the fact that it 's rapidly coming to an end and invest in a poignant musical reminder of 1992 … ? |
| 24 | The Minister can not duck the fact that , even in the years when he had some money from the Chief Secretary to dispose on our arts and cultural life , he deliberately chose not to unfreeze the purchase grants of the galleries . |
| 25 | His survival over the years since independence in 1961 does not alter the fact that the discussion of real policy choices in a public manner has hardly ever occurred . |
| 26 | The facts that much farmed land falls short of its potential and that in large areas of Africa population levels are low , do not alter the fact that innovators in the tradition of Chipimbi continue to succeed in achieving important increases in productivity . |
| 27 | Maybe we are like a photocopy of God that got a bit crumpled and smudged as it came out of the machine so that his image in us has got a bit spoilt , but that does not alter the fact that every person has something of God about them . |
| 28 | The point is that whether I believe it or not , and whether I convince my friends that I 'm right or not , does not alter the fact that smoking cigarettes causes lung cancer . |
| 29 | This does not alter the fact — and it is imperative to grasp this — that even if there has been no alteration or amendment whatever , and every word is identical , with exactly the same sort of type and format , a new edition is created every time there is a new setting of type . |
| 30 | That this had always been in the interest of Great Britain did not alter the fact that such interventions had tended since 1815 to favour liberal and nationalist causes . |