Example sentences of "fact is that [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The fact is that every ten minutes somebody in Great Britain is seriously injured in an accident . |
2 | The fact is that every other gentleman there I can tell it 's a hairpiece , yours I could n't . |
3 | Ignoring the rights and wrongs of Lord Elton 's disagreements with some of his members , the fact is that a body meant to protect investors has been overshadowed by policy rows with the investment firms which make up its membership . |
4 | But the fact is that a Hunt victory was not on the Ferrari books if they had ceded — after a re-start which looked as though it favoured Hunt — they would have been lynched in Italy , where only a Ferrari is allowed to win . |
5 | That working-class wages would remain at subsistence level — the fact is that the real wage of the average worker has increased by a factor of over ten between 1900–70 in the UK and by a factor of fourteen in the U S over the same period ; that collective ownership of the means of production would result in an increase of wealth for the workers and so improve their lot — the fact is that in both Russia and Cuba it has been necessary to restore discipline in factories by introducing a military routine with the surplus value being siphoned off by the state ; that communist revolutions would start in such advanced industrial countries such as Britain , France , America and Germany — the fact is that a socialist revolution has taken place in none of these countries ; that conflicts between states are the results of capitalism and will cease under communism — the fact is that in the streets of Budapest and Prague , in Afghanistan and on the Soviet-Chinese border we have seen the power of the Red Army being used against fellow communists ; that the income difference between capitalists and workers will rise — the fact is that in all industrial countries the effective after-tax , after-benefits real income gap between rich and poor has diminished ; that capitalism will collapse because of its internal contradictions — the fact is that capitalism has not collapsed in any Western country , yet . |
6 | While only Superman or Wonderwoman could have detected the gap between crease and outstretched bat as the bails were dislodged , the all-important fact is that a million or two television viewers on that Australia Day were shown the truth on the slow-motion replay . |
7 | Other fetishes — such as rubber , sweaty socks or amputations may seem outlandish but the fact is that a fetish may be practically anything . |
8 | The fact is that no individual has complete independence in this AL . |
9 | The fact is that an externalized conflict with a psychopathic origin can be confused all too easily with a genuinely external one . |
10 | The fact is that the project itself will call into question the notion of success and failure , my theme in the big glass , he wrote , is , after all , the calling into question of such terms as success and failure , the calling into question of such notions as project and even work . |
11 | The fact is that The Possessed , which can be circumstantial to a calculated fault when it chooses , in this case chooses to say nothing . |
12 | For the fact is that the Christians now hold a power out of proportion to their numbers , thanks to the French . |
13 | The fact is that the only reasonable method of securing conviction of individuals among a rioting football mob or crowd of lager louts or gang of shoplifters is to use video . |
14 | The sad fact is that the SMG is financed by two boroughs , Ealing and Hounslow , members of which are sympathetic to their aims . |
15 | But the fact is that the golf writers have , in the recent past , been thoroughly spoiled for choice . |
16 | The interest of the rest of the ‘ virtuosi ’ ( as they were known ) was a more general one in the ‘ new philosophy ’ and its aims ; for the fact is that the Royal Society provided a focus for a whole movement of thought . |
17 | The fact is that the birth rate declined by almost half between the 1900 and the late 1930s , and by an even higher proportion when compared with nineteenth-century levels . |
18 | The fact is that the rich retained most of their income and wealth , although there was , quite clearly , some transference of wealth and income from the very rich to the middling rich sections , as indicated in Table 6.3 . |
19 | The fact is that the Labour Party had a well-established base for the parliamentary success which it sought during the inter-war years . |
20 | The fact is that the Conservative Party did become closely involved in the problems of the poor and the unemployed — although their efforts were often seen as less than caring . |
21 | The fact is that the Liberal Party declined quickly . |
22 | The fact is that the majority of the Conservative Party supported the appeasement line , through the National government , from before the Abyssinian crisis of 1935 to the Second World War . |
23 | He points out that the pencils are notoriously difficult to get , and says the simple fact is that the judges have not seen sufficient innovation . |
24 | The fact is that the lift worked for ten years with very little maintenance and little stoppage for repairs , except to the track — and even the track could evidently have been put to permanent rights had the study and expenditure been justified . |
25 | The fact is that the song did not sell well because , let's face it , it was a bloody awful record … ’ |
26 | While the idea of preserving the total literary output of a nation is the ideal to be aimed at — an ideal relied upon by those who discard gleefully — the fact is that the British Library does not have a copy of every book . |
27 | The fact is that the rotting process in timber can be long and slow , and may not be observed by the householder until a very advanced stage of decay has been reached . |
28 | The fact is that the considerable amount of literature now being produced on ‘ IT ’ and ‘ strategy ’ is notable for the almost complete absence of any mention of external online database systems of the type used by librarians and information scientists . |
29 | The fact is that the business of the politicians is distinct and different from the business of the churches . |
30 | The fact is that the interests of both education and industry are inseparable . |