Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [prep] [art] fact [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Warlow and his supporters point to the fact that certain quasars ( highly energetic galaxies ) have jets of material emerging from their cores : could it not be that stars and big gassy planets can behave analogously ? |
| 2 | Half empty shops point to the fact that the devices were discovered during one of the busiest periods of the week … |
| 3 | I do n't think any of the committee disagree with the fact that people want jobs . |
| 4 | Ministers of all denominations testify to the fact that renewal and growth began as they met with those in their churches burdened by God to confess their spiritual apathy or impotence and to seek his power to heal their defeated lives and divided churches in order to become the people he intended them to be , not only in the Church , but in the world . |
| 5 | The Croats point to the fact that they retained their own chief executive — the ban ; their own assembly , the Sabor ; and their own judicial system . |
| 6 | Further barriers come from the fact that alumina plants are highly specialised ; switching among alternative sources of bauxite of varying chemical composition can add anywhere between 20–100 per cent to the operating costs ( Stuckey , 1983 : pp. 53–55 ) . |
| 7 | The chronic nature of the symptoms , the benign appearance of the gastric lesions on endoscopy , and the equivocal histological aspect of the lesions account for the fact that numerous MALT lymphomas were considered ‘ pseudolymphomas ’ until the monoclonal nature of the proliferation could be routinely shown by immunochemistry . |
| 8 | Investigations conducted among more recent groups of émigrés suffer from the fact that such groups have been disproportionately Jewish ; there has nevertheless been some support for the view that nationality is not a ‘ primordial ’ attachment and that its political importance is likely to depend on situational factors such as the degree of competition for employment opportunities . |
| 9 | The reasons for the conflict in the various forecasts lie in the fact that the demand for higher education depends on a multiplicity of factors including the distribution of entrants into HE by age , gender , social class , region of residence , parental qualification and family size ; the effects of unemployment and comprehensive education ; the national demand for graduate-level skilled labour ; and last , but by no means least , the effect of the supply of places on demand . |
| 10 | Problems arise from the fact that the repair responsibilities of landlord and lessee are shared . |
| 11 | Sometimes problems arise from the fact that his relationship with his own mother has been unsatisfactory , and he is faced with the hard task of learning from scratch how to relate successfully to a woman of the older generation who has joined his household . |
| 12 | The limitations on the effectiveness of patents in protecting new knowledge arise from the fact that patents disclose information which can enable imitators to invent around them . |
| 13 | What does the hon. Gentleman think about the fact that National Power and PowerGen are currently importing orimulsion and getting permission to burn it ? |
| 14 | You say in your book that many of your problems stem from the fact that you were the wife of an ambitious politician . |
| 15 | Will my right hon. Friend reflect on the fact that when he attends those international meetings and many others in the EC he will discover that Britain 's standing , authority and reputation are vastly higher than they were a few years ago ? |
| 16 | Many studies attest to the fact that anxiety , mental depression , and other types of psychological distress are more likely in IBS patients than in those with organic disease . |
| 17 | Indeed , most of their problems spring from the fact that for them the two functions are deeply connected . |
| 18 | Those people benefit from the fact that they do not have to make national insurance contributions . |
| 19 | Thus , contrary to the mythology propagated by the ‘ popular ’ Press , these user histories point to the fact that , at street level , heroin use is more likely to spread along friendship and family networks ( 90 per cent ) , than via the ‘ evil pusher ’ ( 10 per cent ) ( see also Pearson 1987 ) . |
| 20 | In addition , these user histories point to the fact that the receptionists of some surgeries were instructed to turn away ‘ addicts ’ or , at least , segregate them from the rest of the patients . |
| 21 | The major differences between speech and writing derive from the fact that one is essentially transitory and the other is designed to be permanent . |
| 22 | The problems with this approach lie in the fact that the influence of individual components can not be assessed . |
| 23 | Other differences flow from the fact that whereas the rights of shareholders depend mainly on the provision of the company 's articles , which will have been drafted in the interests of the company , those of debentureholders depend upon the terms of a contract between lender and borrower and its terms will have to be acceptable to the lender . |
| 24 | The differences rest upon the fact that an organisation 's actions are limited by its constituent treaty . |
| 25 | Neither had a polyA stretch despite the fact that the library was oligo-dT primed . |
| 26 | The deviousness and deceitfulness of tobacco advertising , promotion and sponsorship activities which are directed at children lie in the fact that they tell them that one must be healthy and have lung function of 120 per cent . |
| 27 | The description of Tristan 's education given by the great medieval German poet Gottfried of Strasbourg bears witness to the fact that this change in the pattern of a child 's life could be intensely felt and vividly remembered . |
| 28 | The number of retailers collapsing during the recession bears witness to the fact that they need customers more than customers need them . |
| 29 | Reporting the Lithuanian response , the official Soviet news agency Tass on March 19 announced that Gorbachev had ordered the Soviet government to implement " a number of immediate measures " in the light of information which " bears witness to the fact that the present leadership of the republic has embarked on a path of crude violations of constitutional order and of arbitrarily deciding matters which affect the interest of the USSR " . |
| 30 | ‘ The police know for a fact that it was started deliberately . ’ |