Example sentences of "the fact [that] [pron] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | When asked if their shefi acted in too authoritarian a manner , some kolkhozniki at first said it was very rare , but then in peasant fashion slowly warmed up to the fact that they had been very angered by some young students who had written in Rabochii put ’ that their horses were badly fed and cleaned , and that they had not sown enough crops . |
| 2 | There was more than a touch of arrogance to the assumption , and clashes with governments , who could at least point to the fact that they had been elected , were inevitable . |
| 3 | Thiercelin , for instance , had no idea of the fact that they had been listening to the work of the greatest composer of the day . |
| 4 | Despite the fact that they had been trying to kill each other , against the creature they were united . |
| 5 | The fact that they had been warned off but made it the more attractive . |
| 6 | Four pairs of eyes fastened momentarily on this and absorbed the fact that they had been cheated . |
| 7 | The government parties , while stating that the reasons for the protests were " understandable " , condemned the fact that they had been carried out , accusing the organizers of belonging to the extreme left and of using the political prisoner issue to further their own aims . |
| 8 | Did you know about the fact that they 'd been captured ? |
| 9 | Oh yes you mean the fact that they 've been in flower ? |
| 10 | Well I do n't know whether they 'd get it but they do n't want to upset people , the fact that they 've been really inconvenienced by not having it does n't seem to come into their thinking . |
| 11 | If so , then the reasons for this are probably related to the fact that they have been the party of government and their ideas are consequently more newsworthy ; that they have displayed greater skill and exerted greater effort in publicising their views ; and that the other parties delayed the formulation of their interpretations of the concept . |
| 12 | The success of these names is shown by the fact that they have been admired by Chinese scholars such as Dr Lin Yutang , Dr Cheng Te-K'un , Dr Hollington Tong and others . |
| 13 | The fact that they have been invited shows me how stone-cold almost sure Conrad Black had been of a Tory victory . |
| 14 | The fact that they have been asked to continue until the next World Cup makes good common sense and I hope it is a sign that at long last someone at the top is finally making the right decisions . |
| 15 | Research has also indicated that many members of the upper strata owe their position primarily to the fact that they have been born into those strata and have capitalized on the advantages provided by their social background . |
| 16 | Councillors feel that the fact that they have been elected gives them a right to some independence . |
| 17 | Often these can provide extremely useful teaching material , despite the fact that they have been produced for the general public , rather than with a school 's audience in mind . |
| 18 | The important thing to remember , however , is that in many cases no definitive diagnosis can be made until the results have come back from the laboratory and the fact that nothing has been found at the time of the first visit does not mean that the follow-up visit should be missed . |
| 19 | ‘ It was very hard work in many ways ’ , he told me in February 1985 , ‘ and the fact that we 'd been thirteen years [ in Opposition ] meant that most of them , almost all of them , had no experience at all in government . |
| 20 | ‘ If the fact that we had been here came out , the source of the information would be obvious . ’ |
| 21 | But anyway , the railways there was a spurt on between in the late sixties on the railway and that 's when I think I was sure , not only because I was a branch secretary at the time but I 'm sure that all the British Railways there was a greater awareness of the fact that we had been deceived by the word nationalization . |
| 22 | In the last Simon Star we reported how excited we are about the fact that we 've been able to start the work . |
| 23 | A factor for some of us in so doing was the fact that we have been saddened and sickened at the supermarkets ' attitudes in exploiting the European difficulty . |
| 24 | ‘ What pleases me is the fact that we have been creating chances and I personally feel it will only be a matter of time before we get it right . ’ |
| 25 | Lord Rix farce actor Brian Rix has accused them of not fighting back , saying : ‘ We rush like lemmings to the water 's edge , devising fatuous so-called policies … which are feeble attempts to cover up the fact that we have been defecated on from a great height . ’ |
| 26 | I was aware of the fact that there had been what seemed like 20 people working in the office and then it was suddenly dwindling down to a skeleton staff . |
| 27 | The decisive factor in this case seems to have been the fact that there had been no previous contact between the child and the birth father . |
| 28 | As part of their case , the Church made much of the fact that there had been no objection to demolition from within the village . |
| 29 | This highlights the fact that there had been a practical separation between the organizations of business and artistic concerns , which in earlier types of organization had often seemed to be , and in many cases clearly were , united . |
| 30 | The interview had gone well and , despite the fact that there had been three other candidates , the job was hers . |