Example sentences of "fact [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bare facts are that Oxford won by 1¼ lengths in 17min 44sec to take the Beefeater Gin Trophy for the sixth successive time and register their 16th win in 17 years . |
| 2 | The facts are that within a decade of the Vienna Congress , nationalism was gathering furious pace . |
| 3 | The facts are that the Palace of justice was built between 1935 and 1940 in a style that is known in Italy as Littoria , but which we would term Fascist . |
| 4 | The facts are that the patient has requested that the doctor discontinue treatment , and the doctor has ignored this request . |
| 5 | The facts are that if you propose an idea , four times out of ten someone will take issue with it by pointing out snags and difficulties ( see Difficulty stating on page 52 ) . |
| 6 | It seemed to me that it was wanting in every detail , but the objective facts are that I was five feet two and a half , weighed eight stone five , and had my fair share of acne . |
| 7 | Said Len Brealey : ‘ The plain facts are that after Mr Woolhouse failed to reach payment in an original contract we set up a new agreement . |
| 8 | Much as I would love to see the 1995 World Cup help to kickstart the South African economy as overseas visitors pour in to fill impressive stadia and savour the beauty of the land , the facts are that as things stand rugby will be used as a political pawn . |
| 9 | The clear facts are that Gunhilda left the monastery with Count Alan Rufus , and lived with him very briefly as wife or mistress until his death , which followed almost immediately , probably on 4 August 1093 . |
| 10 | The facts are that no such dossier was produced by Murrin in 1989 . |
| 11 | The facts are that I asked Warren Beatty not to cast Sean Young in the role for Dick Tracy . ’ |
| 12 | However the facts are that the courts have not for the last 300 years recognised , nor have they acted upon , a logic which renders all questions of law jurisdictional . |
| 13 | For the twentieth-century facts were that they were a small , oppressed , poor and exploited people , in thrall to the then all-mighty English , and their sole singularity was the Welsh language and only a quarter of them spoke that . |
| 14 | But the facts were that most Frenchmen had not been in the Resistance and that the Resistance itself was divided into different groups . |
| 15 | The facts were that the plaintiff had insured property with the defendant company against inter alia ‘ loss or damage caused by theft . ’ |
| 16 | The facts were that B agreed to buy goods from S. S sent to B a bill of lading together with a bill of exchange ( see Chapter 3 , paragraph 3–25 above ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The fact is that we have no option but to raise salaries . |
| 19 | The fact is that cognitive neuropsychologists have significantly increased our understanding of the effects of brain injury on behaviour by conceptualizing mental processes in purely functional terms without regard to their subjective qualities or to physiology . |
| 20 | He may regard me as an amateur but the fact is that , due to physical difficulties , I can not pull and twist in a horizontal mode and so I invoked gravity to assist . |
| 21 | The fact is that The Possessed , which can be circumstantial to a calculated fault when it chooses , in this case chooses to say nothing . |
| 22 | The fact is that in the world of switch-mode power supplies ( and it is a very large world indeed , covering PCB , mainframe computers , electronic telephone exchanges , military equipment , aerospace , and more besides ) it is rare to come across a Cuk converter . |
| 23 | For the fact is that the Christians now hold a power out of proportion to their numbers , thanks to the French . |
| 24 | The simple fact is that Ford can not begin to exercise its stated intention of building a significant stake in Jaguar for another two weeks . |
| 25 | ‘ The fact is that many people have made substantial personal fortunes in the last few years , and with encouragement and the lowest income tax rate for 50 years , I believe they will be prepared to acknowledge their privileged position and return to the community a portion of their good fortune . |
| 26 | The salient fact is that what is uniquely on offer at these parties is not all-night dancing or a few boutique drugs , but fantasy-sensation itself : the orgiastic effect of thousands of people mainlining heavy acid rock at the level of total sound . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The second fact is that those crews that took off on 25/26 August 1940 from bases like Waddington , Scampton , Lindholme , Hemswell and Newmarket , ill-equipped though they were to inflict any real damage on the enemy , achieved an impact on the course of the war that none could have truly appreciated at the time . |
| 29 | Yet the plain fact is that this number of children are dying every day — dying from diseases we know how to cure . |
| 30 | The plain fact is that Syria , together with the principal promoters of the Arab League ‘ peace plan ’ such as the US and Saudi Arabia , and its reluctant supporters such as France , have taken fright at its enforcement . |