Example sentences of "[art] [adj] fact is [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The historical fact is that the settlement of 1688–1701 failed to settle everything ; it failed to provide for all contingencies . |
| 2 | The stark fact is that the Quakers have failed to achieve back-to-back victories since an encouraging start to the season when they won their first two games . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Hume 's argument , however , does not hold water for the simple reason that it assumes that the question of the possibility of significantly ascribing identity to objects as ontological existents can and should be decided via an analysis of the conditions of their identification , whereas the simple fact is that the concept of an entity as a potential topic of discourse is analytically linked with , and hence inseparable from , that of identity . |
| 5 | I saw the report to which my hon. Friend referred and I am not at all surprised that the Opposition tried to shout him down , for the simple fact is that the report revealed that the majority of people in this country recognise that the Labour party has now promised to increase spending on just about everything under the sun , which would mean higher borrowing , higher inflation and much higher taxes . |
| 6 | Erm the simple fact is that the factors that have gone into the model that which we have used , have been the nineteen ninety one based fertility , mortality and infant mortality rates . |
| 7 | The sad fact is that the SMG is financed by two boroughs , Ealing and Hounslow , members of which are sympathetic to their aims . |
| 8 | The sad fact is that the greater the need , the less outside help is usually available . |
| 9 | The sad fact is that the vast majority are failing to realise their evangelistic potential , preferring to concentrate on spiritual nurture of the existing group members . |
| 10 | er Well it 's very easy to er blame government for not allocating resources , er but er the pure fact is that the health authority has insufficient resources to allocate to us to meet the increasing demands of this area . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been very finely adjusted to make possible the development of life . |
| 13 | And yet , the astonishing fact is that the H.T. that we know and take for granted today is not much more than a hundred years old , generally accepted as having originated in 1867 with the variety called ‘ La France ’ . |
| 14 | The plain fact is that the feeble PC beep , usually allied to a tiny ( and tinny ) speaker is the laughing stock of the computer world — almost every other type of computer has sound capabilities that make the PC more to be pitied than laughed at . |
| 15 | There is a good overall correlation between the clinical symptoms in Crohn 's disease ( the ‘ activity indices ’ ) and the circulating CRP concentration ; but the important fact is that the correlation is not perfect . |
| 16 | But the harsh fact is that the UN was able to operate effectively in liberating Kuwait because it suited US national interests to undertake this task ; and America and its allies clearly preferred to operate with the Security Council 's approval . |
| 17 | A startling fact is that the biggest application — accounting for 762 robots — is in ‘ non industrial ’ applications , which include the use of robots as toys or teaching aids . |