Example sentences of "fact that [art] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | The apparent discrepancy was explained by the fact that a number of wives said their response would depend on the form of the emergency . |
| 2 | Thus perhaps the fact that a number of legal cases have been brought is indicative of some parents ' resistance to the subservient , rather than partnership , role which some say they are forced to assume by the Act ( regardless of exhortations to LEAs to extend parental involvement ) . |
| 3 | ( It should be noted that this grade is my own , justified by the fact that a number of serious accidents have occurred here . |
| 4 | These relationships were probably strengthened by the fact that a number of family relations of senior politicians were employed by foreign mining companies . |
| 5 | It is a sad fact that a number of adult dogs obtained from rescue organizations are returned because of this type of problem , which is not likely to be apparent when the dog is chosen . |
| 6 | This apparent failure to improve housing outcome is mitigated by the fact that a number of this group who were referred to the Homeless Persons Unit , together with others who went to Bed and Breakfast accommodation , would ‘ presumably in due course ’ have found their way to independent accommodation . |
| 7 | Discussion of the notion of illegality is also made difficult by the fact that a number of different terms are used to convey the idea of illegality . |
| 8 | The scheme was modest , so modest in fact that a number of experts were quick to point out that , even when the scheme was fully mature , it would still provide inadequate pensions to guarantee most beneficiaries , without any pension other than the state retirement pension , an income above the official poverty line . |
| 9 | Some girls apparently continue screaming despite the fact that a number of fellows have already reached her and are trying to wrestle her to the ground . |
| 10 | The ‘ bad copies ’ the main character produces are made possible by the fact that a number of comparable codes are juxtaposed simultaneously in her mind . |
| 11 | But I think it 's a little bit rich if I may say so Joe to blame the women for this because the parliamentary Labour party did vote for this new rule and the fact that a number of women very able women put themselves forward , I do n't think it 's right to say it is the women 's fault . |
| 12 | And you can add to that the fact that a number of districts er have said that they 've been consulted five times by the County Council er on various erm population projections . |
| 13 | The uncertainty of even contemporary writers about who the leaders were , notably the fact that a number of them considered Straw and Tyler to be identical , illustrates how obscure they were . |
| 14 | The purpose of this thought experiment is to draw attention to the fact that a number of pragmatic phenomena can be explicated by reference to just these sorts of features : for example , as we shall see , deixis can be thought of as based on the assumption of mutual orientation , presupposition on the assumption of shared knowledge of a domain and its updating , speech acts on the making explicit , for other participants , of one 's interactional goals , conversational implicature on the assumption of interactional co-operation , and so on . |
| 15 | This is a nice example of the ‘ combinatorial explosion ’ : the fact that the number of ways of arranging n things grows very rapidly with n and becomes essentially infinite even for quite moderate values of n . |
| 16 | But Mr Bull said the good news must be set against the closure of seven groups and the fact that the number of new members fell slightly short of the 1991 targeted figure due to the onset of the recession . |
| 17 | The fact that the number of very young women now smoking and consuming alcohol has steadily increased gives grave cause for concern . |
| 18 | The fact that the number of children is itself a random variable introduces a further stochastic element into the wealth — income generating process . |
| 19 | Fortunately , our railways remain one of the safest means of transport and I am sure that the whole House welcomes the fact that the number of significant accidents on the railways is now the lowest on record . |
| 20 | The House may be interested to know that , because we were seeking to look at the effect of NHS management reforms over the first six months , we did not draw attention to the fact that the number of people who have been waiting for more than one year on in-patient lists is 37 per cent . |
| 21 | Does the Secretary of State accept that the improvement in productivity is partly due to the fact that the number of registered disabled people employed by British Coal has fallen ? |
| 22 | The fact that the number of working days lost in the United Kingdom as a whole in 1991 was the lowest since records began 100 years ago is testimony to our success . |
| 23 | The improvement was attributed to the fact that the number of childhood deaths had been falling by 120,000 a year globally over the last five years . |
| 24 | The fact that the number of word paths should decrease using an allophonic representation is easily demonstrable . |
| 25 | Still , the differentiation of the peasantry into rich and poor or landless was also marked in the advanced Czech lands , as is indicated by the fact that the number of goats — the typical poor man 's animal — almost doubled between 1846 and 1869 . |