Example sentences of "fact [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact although sometimes the rate of progress or the pace of technology seems sort of frustratingly slow if you look at what has actually changed , what has been achieved over the last five years , it 's quite incredible . |
| 2 | It was a more profound unpredictability , in spite of the fact that probably a good proportion of workers were employed for long periods of their lives by a single employer . |
| 3 | This was despite the fact that probably the most influential piece of evidence they received during the three years they sat , the Church of England Moral Welfare Council 's ( CEMWC ) updated report , Sexual Offenders and Social Punishment , recommended a universal age of consent of 17 . |
| 4 | Cermait said , rather huffily , that it was a well-known fact that even an acorn-full of poteen sent you fast asleep , and Fintan gave vent to a derisive hoot . |
| 5 | In spite of the fact that even the best of his songs can seem surprisingly flat on the page , his vocal performance compels a belief in the aptness of the words . |
| 6 | Obviously , then , the fact that 200,000 Greek Cypriots ( a third of the population ) were kicked out of their homes by the Turkish invaders , thus becoming refugees in their own country , is not a crime , according to Mr Gustafson ; nor is the fact that 80,000 settlers were imported from Turkey in an attempt to alter the demographic composition of the island ; nor is the fact that 1,619 people are still reported as missing in action almost 17 years after the invasion ; nor is the fact that the Turks are destroying every trace of the 3,000-year-old Greek culture that exists in the occupied territories , a fact that even the Turkish Cypriot press often reports . |
| 7 | Yet it is a fact that even the most permissive of mothers and fathers intentionally or unwittingly punish their children in the course of socializing them . |
| 8 | Let us be adult about this and accept that , in view of the fact that even the very strictest diets suggest that you eat not much less than 1,000 calories daily , those three calories are n't going to make a jot of difference to your weight loss . |
| 9 | The remaining three ( ‘ Girlfriend ’ , ‘ How Soon ’ and ‘ This Charming Man ’ ) merely underline the fact that even the most valium-addicted manic depressive would be wasting his/her bullets on this sordid cash-in . |
| 10 | For example , in the Stapleton case in 1975 the defendant was acquitted of rape despite the fact that even the judge in passing sentence had said : ‘ I have no doubt you instilled terror into this woman when you went into that room and made your intentions quite clear ’ . |
| 11 | The City loves to play up the fact that even the giant ogre , Deutsche Bank , came to London to buy its merchant banking arm , Morgan Grenfell . |
| 12 | In Africa , American attempts to construct blocs would be undercut by the fact that even the most pro-Western states in the region ‘ in every way avoid tight ( particularly formally established ) association with the racist regime ’ of South Africa . |
| 13 | It was the perfect foil for her colouring ; she looked cool and composed and that was how she would behave tonight , despite the fact that even the thought of having to spend an evening in Nicolo 's company made her stomach clench . |
| 14 | The fact that normally the two brothers-in-law got along very peaceably made this present exchange particularly acrimonious . |
| 15 | I went , reinforced by my experience at the long X-ray session and the fact that nearly a month had transpired since the photos were taken . |
| 16 | Success of the PC as an engineering tool must in part be due to its expansion bus and the fact that nearly every type of facility can be found on a PC card . |
| 17 | So we are faced with the amazing fact that neither the insistence on English superiority nor a savage level of English military aggression was enough to produce widespread , let alone total , resistance by a people who for well over two centuries had determinedly and successfully resisted both . |
| 18 | Despite the fact that neither the Model Code nor the Take-over Code have the force of law , they do represent important statements of commercial morality and at times breach of them may have legal consequences . |
| 19 | We now know in fact that neither the proton nor the neutron is elementary but that they are made up of smaller particles . |
| 20 | The difficulty in reaching agreement about this , or any greater measure of development , had lain partly in the fact that neither the CNAA nor any of its internal structures or external partners or constituencies was homogeneous , and the evolution of ‘ partnership ’ was therefore through a constant , complex and difficult process of negotiation . |
| 21 | That Mar failed where Monck and William of Orange had succeeded is partly related to military factors , but also reflects the fact that neither the domestic political crisis was so severe nor popular disaffection so widespread in 1714 – 15 as it had been in either 1659 – 60 or 1688 – 9 . |
| 22 | So all the rhetoric that we 've had from this government about better performance N H S , more people being seen by the N H S , that must be read against the fact that over a million people are , or a million patients , are er waiting on N H S waiting lists . |
| 23 | Can I also highlight the fact that over a hundred thousand people attended R Y A training courses of one sort or another last year . |
| 24 | During early 1990 $297m worth of securities were stolen from a City messenger and whilst a general alert went out should any unusual presentations for payment be made at maturity to minimise the risk of loss , it is nevertheless true that this kind of occurrence causes a certain difficulty due to the fact that invariably the instruments in question are bearer instruments . |
| 25 | The consultative document cites as an example the fact that both a Ford Fiesta and Mercedes 1.90 fall within the same scale charge band . |
| 26 | ‘ Difficult , ’ agreed Henry , ‘ and made more so , I imagine , by the fact that both the Coroner and the Chairman of the Magistrates ’ Bench were there . ’ |
| 27 | These views are consistent with the fact that both the isothermal segmental mobility and shrinkage-time behaviour can be characterised by , — the Kohlrausch-Williams-Watts relaxation function . |
| 28 | This is despite the fact that all the more straightforward definitions of " marriage " fail to fit the peculiarities of the Nayar case . |
| 29 | And doubts were expressed as to its value given the conceded fact that only a small dent was likely to be made in the pigeon population . |
| 30 | This is a result of the fact that only a partial 16S sequence is available for these two cytoplasmic incompatibility microorganisms . |