Example sentences of "fact that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is fallacy , and simply stems from the fact that the angler who sings the praises of one bait uses that bait , and consequently catches more of his fish on that bait than any other . |
| 2 | Differences between the two areas may simply reflect the fact that the density of cuckoos relative to that of their hosts is larger at Santa Fe than at Guadix ( Table 1 ) . |
| 3 | Louise now greatly regretted having made Fleury the green coat , which she feared made him too conspicuous … and it was a fact that the sepoy sharpshooters could seldom resist trying to hit this brilliant green target . |
| 4 | Officials are embarrassed by the fact that the total in the fund is still so small than under United Nations rules , none of it can be spent . |
| 5 | The ‘ progressives ’ were alarmed by the fact that the document produced by the preparatory commission on the liturgy had been altered between approval by the central commission ( over which the pope himself presided ) and reaching the Council itself . |
| 6 | The answer to that is that the consideration is not the rendering of the services , as is plain from the fact that the document is to take effect in Equity from the date . |
| 7 | It is a serious matter to add a letter heading because it hides the fact that the document was a draft letter which was ready to go out if the claim was entertained . |
| 8 | But in a case where the discussion begins with the fact that the description of the goods by which they were sold points to one particular purpose only , it seems to me that the first requirement of the subsection is satisfied … |
| 9 | By a notice of appeal dated 23 April 1992 the Treasury Solicitor appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) on a true construction of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 the court was precluded from making the order for examination ; ( 2 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in making the order and in holding that ( i ) it was possible to interpret section 9(4) of the Act so as not to preclude the order sought , ( ii ) the exclusion contained in section 9(4) was restricted to cases where the actual capacity in which the witness was called on to give evidence was a Crown capacity and that the fact that the evidence sought was acquired in the course of the witness 's employment as a servant of the Crown was not of itself sufficient to bring the case within the exclusion , ( iii ) the fact that the witness was now retired from his position was relevant to the question whether the exclusion in section 9(4) applied , ( iv ) if some other interpretation were possible , it would be unacceptable to approach section 9(4) as requiring the court to refuse to make the order that a witness who was competent and compellable within the United Kingdom should give evidence for foreign proceedings , ( v ) there was nothing in the material sought to be given in evidence which it could have been the policy or intention of the Act to have prevented being explored ; ( 3 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in approaching the question of capacity by concentrating on the position of the witness at the time that the evidence was to be given as opposed to the position of the witness at the time that he acquired the information which was the subject matter of the evidence and the nature content and source of such evidence ; ( 4 ) the judge had wrongly ignored the fact that the Crown as a party to the Hague Convention was in a position to give effect to it and to provide evidence to foreign courts in accordance with it without recourse to the court ; and ( 5 ) the judge had wrongly approached section 9(4) on the footing that it most likely addressed prejudice to the sovereignty of the state . |
| 10 | But Parliament also took account of the fact that the Crown can only act through its officers or servants . |
| 11 | The remodelling of commissions of the peace , and the careful disposal of government offices , had the effect of greatly increasing the ability of the government-backed party to bring pressure to bear on electors to vote in their favour , whilst the mere fact that the Crown was making a clear statement as to where its own political sympathies lay was often by itself a powerful factor in swaying public opinion . |
| 12 | The fact that the transfer of property rights was only partial and conditional gave them the guarantee of security in old age , and the people involved in such transactions were not necessarily children or even relatives . |
| 13 | In terms of this critical pulsatance , at pulsatances above and below it respectively , the attenuation constant and phase shift per section are given by The fact that the transfer function becomes when establishes that , in the pass band , the output signal of a section lags in phase behind the input signal to that section . |
| 14 | The state of the play we read — often a composite version constructed by a modern editor — may be a necessary feature of study , but it should not hide the fact that the playing of Renaissance drama was performed in circumstances where the cultural place of the play was very different to that of the present . |
| 15 | The diagram corresponding to ( 36 ) is therefore : With the above analysis we can now account for the paradoxical fact that the verb perceive is found more frequently with the to infinitive than with the bare version : ( 55 ) No one could possibly enter his rooms without perceiving him to be a man of wealth . |
| 16 | Answer guide : The issues brought out here are the question of whether cost or value is to be included and whether the fact that the asset was acquired prior to opening the shop is relevant . |
| 17 | Indeed the ex-editor of Classical Music contacted the publisher to ask why they had reverted to Times as the body copy typeface , he had changed it from Times to ITC Clearface , and was duly surprised to find that the reason was to do with the fact that the title was being produced on a desktop publishing system . |
| 18 | The fact that the title of Khan was a military as well as a civil appointment had not occurred to him until now , but now that he thought about it , the suggestion seemed ridiculous . |
| 19 | This is within , as members will be aware , the overall financial position that the County Council finds itself in , of having to get its expenditure within the cap , and the fact that the increase in cap for the authority as a whole , does not in any way , mirror the increase in standard spending assessment for Social Services Committee , where we have been fortunate in terms the increase for this county , erm , and a variety of other factors which , which mean that it would be nice to think that where S S A increases for this Committee , it also increases for the County Council . |
| 20 | It also seems to be a sad fact that the increase in freedom since Die Wende The Turning has brought with it an increase in monetary problems and the 26 artists here , all of them under 40 , obviously have great , heart-searching problems to cope with . |
| 21 | We are accountable to the public in many different ways , and we always have to keep an eye on the fact that the public are looking at what we are doing with our money and local politicians and the community 's representatives are always anxious to talk to us about what we are doing with that money and we must be prepared to answer any queries or any questions on our activities or those activities of people that we 're sponsoring . |
| 22 | and the fact that the licence is not here puts you in , in , in difficulty . |
| 23 | Howard Samuel never had the courage to tell him that he had no recollection of their night-time conversation because of his post-prandial condition , so Randolph always regarded the fact that the licence had been obtained for the Labour Party as a gross breach of trust . |
| 24 | Indeed by virtue of the fact that the clause will be seen as merely adding extra information the natural presumption must be that this is not the basis for " recognizability " . |
| 25 | In order to decide whether this is so , account must be taken , not only of the fact that the worker is employed on board a vessel registered in the member state in question , but also of other circumstances , such as the fact that he is in the employ of a company incorporated under the law of that state and established there , or the fact that he was hired in that state and that the employment relationship between him and his employer is subject to the law of the flag state , or the fact that he is insured under the social security system of that state and pays income tax there : see pp. 3009–3010 , paras . |
| 26 | But Mr Dorrell said : ‘ There is no secret about the fact that the Treasury announced last summer it was engaged in a fundamental review of not just health expenditure but four other areas of Government spending to ensure that the way the money is spend reflects today 's priorities . ’ |
| 27 | The fact that the DNA sequences used to clone the mouse homolog T160 are proposed to form stem-loop structures ( 44 , 45 ) is fully consistent with shape-selective recognition . |
| 28 | Previous attempts to do this had always foundered on the fact that the fun usually resulted pretty soon in procreation but at this very time field trials of the contraceptive pill were taking place which would soon make the division practical and permanent for the first time in history . |
| 29 | It is also necessary to recognise the fact that the organisation is the home of the residents , and their dignity and privacy must be respected and given priority over analytical considerations whenever necessary . |
| 30 | Given this , the clitoris was rather a problem , because to argue from biology and physiology gave one no defence against the fact that the clitoris was the female organ of pleasure . |