Example sentences of "fact that his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andreeva went on to complain of historical plays , such as those of Mikhail Shatrov , which were arbitrary in their interpretation and close to the views that had been put forward by Lenin 's opponents , and she deplored the obsessive interest in Stalin among many writers , obscuring the fact that his was a complex and transitional period in which industrialisation , collectivisation and a cultural revolution had brought the USSR into the ranks of the great powers . |
| 2 | So the consideration of his uncles ' place in both the community and the synagogue calls to mind the fact that his father , as the first born son , should have had that pre-eminence . |
| 3 | He only knows that he needs air and ca n't get it ; a state evinced by his terminal boredom , and by single sovereign descriptive strokes like the fact that his eyes are ‘ a little too blue ’ leaving the reader to imagine a pair of empty summer-sky souls , very bright and staring in pain . |
| 4 | And yet there is his tribute , as late as the Pisan years , to Blunt ; there is the fact that his friendship with Yeats did not end except with Yeats 's death ; and there is above all the fact that his disenchantment with mass democracy kept pace with Yeats 's , and culminated for him as for Yeats in the false alternative of Fascism . |
| 5 | And yet there is his tribute , as late as the Pisan years , to Blunt ; there is the fact that his friendship with Yeats did not end except with Yeats 's death ; and there is above all the fact that his disenchantment with mass democracy kept pace with Yeats 's , and culminated for him as for Yeats in the false alternative of Fascism . |
| 6 | He shared with his wife Harriet a passion for fly-fishing and gardening and he made no secret of the fact that his years of retirement , when they were able to fish and garden to the full , were the happiest of his life . |
| 7 | The decline was never great , but it has to be judged against the fact that his general image was improving sharply ( Table 8.7 ) . |
| 8 | His opinion of the local Komsomol was no doubt coloured by the fact that his own colony was a kind of rival organization , but his view broadly reflects that of Yakovlev on the Nikol'skaia Komsomol ; Yakovlev was a more disinterested outsider . |
| 9 | Hence the fact that his fellow economists , who regarded it as mistaken , were at great pains to refute it on theoretical grounds . |
| 10 | Despite his flair and populism , he was a cautious man who took great comfort from the fact that his son had not become a footballer but was securely settled in the middle class as a solicitor . |
| 11 | Many readers of his apologetics must have been disconcerted by me fact that his chapter about conversion in Beyond Personality is entitled ‘ Let's Pretend ’ . |
| 12 | Poor Andy knew nothing about the fact that his bride was planning to sport shorts for the most important vows of her life . |
| 13 | He 's often slammed for being a ‘ spoilt child ’ , which seems to stem from a distrust of the fact that his music is play rather than ( good ) work . |
| 14 | He did see himself very much as a responsible figure as far as other people 's well being was concerned when it came to this , and this was probably based on the fact that his step-brother , Terry , by his mother 's previous marriage , was classified as schizophrenic , a problem which David felt could be hereditary . ’ |
| 15 | His adolescent distaste for Hitler was sharpened by the fact that his mother remarried to a Jew , and in 1934 he went into exile , first to France and then to England , where he settled . |
| 16 | From the start of his Chancellorship , Nigel Lawson made no secret of the fact that his ambitions were tax reform and lower taxes . |
| 17 | With my luck , Ginny , I 'd lose if I backed the only filly in a one horse race , ’ Mark told her , suddenly conscious of the fact that his speech was beginning to slur . |
| 18 | When he had been given to Uncle Farmborough to be his heir and to look after him in his old age , he was considered fortunate — but how could a child reconcile itself to such a strange state of affairs that he had been given away , to the fact that his own father and mother , brother and sister , lived quite near in the village but , as it were , in a different camp ? |
| 19 | He 's not seen me , they 've gone straight past , he has not yet come to terms with the fact that his mummy 's a queen . |
| 20 | While Allen rather relishes the fact that his rhetoric is still considered too dangerous for earthbound TV , he is not quite so happy about the programme 's title . |
| 21 | For years it was believed that the ‘ fanatic ’ Toscanini conducted everything very fast , though it is an attested fact that his Bayreuth Parsifal was the slowest in the theatre 's history and that his famous Falstaff , not to mention a good deal of his Mozart and Brahms , was unusually broad in its pacing . |
| 22 | This , together with the fact that his people were more settled and therefore accessible and that there was the possibility of running a lineage bank account , all served to reinforce the position of the shaikhs . |
| 23 | He hardened his opposition to both , despite the fact that his own party chairman had once favoured the first , and vocal forces within his Scottish party were in support of the second . |
| 24 | It is no use bemoaning the sad fact that his days as a brilliantly athletic virtuoso in classical ballet seem to be over . |
| 25 | The fact that his team is full of professionals has not worried the Internal Revenue Service , though there is some sensitivity about just how close to the wind the foundation sails . |
| 26 | That Miller was known outside the gardening fraternity at the time is evidenced by the fact that his expertise was sought by Nathan Bailey for his Dictionarum Britannicum or a more Compleat Etymological English Dictionary , 1730 . |
| 27 | Mozart 's place in history is due in part to the fact that his father recognised and nurtured his talent from an early age , virtually giving over his life in order to assist in the advancement of his son . |
| 28 | He had a casual way of saying ‘ my mother ’ which somehow emphasised invincibly the fact that his mother was the Queen . |
| 29 | The fact that he lived with someone who slept by day , and the fact that his own life , centred around The Bar , was more or less nocturnal , made it seem quite normal to Boy to always consider the life of the city around him from the perspective of the night . |
| 30 | To take a wild hypothetical instance , the police could torture a suspect into revealing the location of stolen goods and then use the fact that his fingerprints are on them at his trial . |