Example sentences of "fact [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Some of his soft-ground plates of plants — tree roots and details of vegetation and rocks could have been drawn on the spot , in fact where the reversal of the image was not of importance or obvious .
2 Involuntary unemployment is not a fact or a phenomenon which it is the task of theorists to explain .
3 One lamentable practice which Crews rightly scorns is the increasingly revived trick or medieval rhetoric in which one attempts to substantiate one 's theoretical argument not by anything so vulgarly empirical as a fact or a text but merely by invoking a name from the sacred pantheon .
4 However , in being always revisable in the light of new information the judgement still remains on a par with acceptance of a historical fact or a law of nature , which likewise never escape the possibility of being discredited by new evidence .
5 Evidence can be defined as information which establishes or disproves a fact or a point in question .
6 For example , if it is thought that an error of law or fact or a breach of natural justice should justify quashing only if it can be said that but for the error or breach the decision would have been different , this should be built into the definition of the relevant ground of review and not dealt with as a matter of remedial discretion .
7 Nor is the distortion of fact or the deification of rumour the only problem ; there is also the considerable problem of the temporal nature of commenting on climbing style .
8 Whatever the right labels , the attitudinist agrees that no properly ethical expression can be adequately defined in purely naturalistic or even metaphysical terms but offers what he thinks a better explanation of this fact than the invocation of non-natural properties , namely that such definitions ignore valuational or emotive meaning .
9 There really can be no doubt as to the fact than an employee is expected to adapt himself to new methods and techniques introduced in the course of his employment …
10 I object to the fact that no taxes are paid therefore inequality is there automatically .
11 The fact that no recombination between Oct-11b and Bcl-2 was observed in 59 mice suggests the two loci reside within 5 cM ( upper 95% confidence limit ) .
12 Another factor of course er was the fact that no state then could conscript , could , could in fact force people to serve in its armies and so on erm manpower was , was limited .
13 But our judge might be able to guarantee this by making plain that he intends the new rule to govern all future cases , and that the exception for Elmer was made possible only by the fact that no judge had laid down a similar rule before Elmer committed his crime .
14 The rapid expansion of combined or multi-modal transport in the 1960's , and the fact that no convention or treaty existed covering such transport led the ICC to publish a set of Uniform Rules for a Combined Transport Document ( ’ CTD ’ ) in 1973 , and to revise these rules in 1975 ( ’ CTD Rules ’ ) .
15 In all of these case an alleged offence ensures mandatory and indeterminate hospitalisation despite the fact that no trial has taken place in the former category while no conviction has been recorded in the latter .
16 Well British Steel adopted a somewhat more subtler tactic er they make a strong point of the fact that no money has ever been removed from the scheme despite the presence of a six hundred surplus .
17 This old wives ' tale is amazingly persistent , despite the fact that no cat could possibly relax and sleep on top of a squirming , suffocating baby .
18 The fact that no part of the fine was payable to an individual damaged was regarded as evidence that Parliament did not intend the statute to give rise to an action .
19 This is due to the fact that no lintel was placed in there when the building was erected .
20 If the model is travelling at some speed and/or a sharp turn is made , it will in fact gain height despite the fact that no back cyclic is applied .
21 This group is remarkable not only for the quality of its work , but also for the fact that no individual has ever been known by name ; only the corporate identity has come down across the years .
22 The root of the trouble lies in the fact that no segment of a polycyclic river has a perfectly smooth concave profile , so that the formula gives a curve with an approximate fit .
23 They protested their innocence , and referred to the fact that no charges had been brought against them .
24 The mouth is stretched in what would be a howl but for the fact that no air is passing .
25 A large number of problems has been encountered , one of the most surprising being the fact that no UK Government department had taken responsibility for enforcing the EEC controls on the sale of protected wildlife specimens .
26 The CDP also expressed its concern at the fact that no polytechnic director had been on the visiting party ( in fact , when the visiting party was first put together , it did include i polytechnic director , who withdrew at the last moment ) .
27 This followed from the fact that no compensation was payable for the loss of development value in cases where planning permission was refused .
28 The fact that no contribution was made to the pension fund during the 31 weeks by the plaintiff would not result in a diminution of his pension .
29 The political sensitivity of prosecutions in this area is reflected in the fact that no prosecutions can be brought under this Part of the Act ( in England and Wales ) without the consent of the Attorney-General , I who will no doubt bear in mind that proceedings should not be brought when this is likely to penalise or inhibit legitimate controversy .
30 Do not such policies illustrate the fact that no amount of tacky red plastic roses , sharp suits or slick public relations can disguise how little Labour has really changed ?
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