Example sentences of "the fact that [num] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that 14 of the 29 questions were answered correctly by 30 per cent or more of the lowest band suggests that there is a range of questions within the conceptual grasp of all or practically all the lowest band of attainers . |
| 2 | Lim 's sources of information were seen to be much more effective than the Army 's compromised intelligence gathering network , as evidenced by the fact that four of the chief rebel officers captured since the coup attempt had been tracked down and arrested by the police . |
| 3 | When this attempt by pseudo-Britain succeeds , the real British look desperately for evidence of their own national achievement in the first moon landing , and find it in the fact that one of the astronauts is wearing a British watch : ‘ This is a great day for us . |
| 4 | But in recent years his plays have been more about the paradoxical nature of dissidence itself : the emotional turbulence of the authority given the individual as a public spokesman , and about the fact that one of the worst features of any totalitarian system is the need to conform to other people 's expectations . |
| 5 | The fact that one of the most outstanding cricketers of all time was Colin Bland , it says a lot about cricket as an athletic and gripping sport . |
| 6 | The fact that one of the Bill 's triggers was the Channel 4 Screening of Derek Jarman 's Sebastiane gives us some indication of the possible threats to homosexual images on television . |
| 7 | The climax of the account is the fact that one of the ten who was cured return to Jesus to thank him ( Luke 17:15 ) . |
| 8 | Indeed the fact that one of the informal classrooms would have had far less experience of the methods gain in all attainment areas ' gave support to those ( among whom I number myself ) who wondered whether realistic comparisons could be obtained when the schools taking part had no common starting point . |
| 9 | Coward discusses , for instance , the importance of the fact that one of the biggest growth areas in publishing in recent years has been women 's romantic fiction . |
| 10 | There was a certain irony in the fact that one of the first things Baldwin told the King , on taking over from the decrepit MacDonald , was that he himself needed two months ' rest . |
| 11 | The fact that one of the parties is a public body does not necessarily affect the nature of the dispute or the law applicable to it . |
| 12 | This was despite the fact that one of the claimants , John Zápolya , who was crowned King of Hungary in 1514 , was of Slavonian origin and was known to the Magyars as the Slav King . |
| 13 | I thought we could hang something on the fact that one of the most enduring sexual icons of the age was in fact what today would be called — uh — big . ’ |
| 14 | In view of the fact that one of the main issues confronting the Group is the finalising of the Consultant 's Brief and the commissioning of research , perhaps Ralph would be in the best position to assist ? |
| 15 | Will he reflect on the fact that one of the most unpleasant duties of the Northumbria police is having to drag the mangled bodies of motorists from cars that have gone into ditches alongside the A1 while on their way to Scotland ? |
| 16 | Is he happy with the fact that one of the deprivation factors that he has used relates to car ownership ? |
| 17 | The fact that one of the few unchanged portfolios was that of Agriculture was seen as indicative of the current intense foreign pressure upon Japan to end its ban on rice imports . |
| 18 | Especially of interest was the fact that one of the two men clearly experiencing difficulty with section ( c ) on the examination paper , Howard Brown ( Morse wondered why his wife had n't been willing to cover for him ) , had filled in section ( e ) with the correct date of arrival , 27 October ; or , to be more precise about the matter , ‘ 2 October ’ . |
| 19 | By the end of 1860 the education minister was reflecting darkly on the fact that one of the Kiev schools was teaching history and one of the Moscow schools both French and German . |
| 20 | The fact that one of the Games squad , Graeme Smith , had earlier applied , but then accepted the refusal of leave of absence to compete in the Grand Prix , means that action will need to be taken . |
| 21 | The fact that one of the guys in the branch has got a great big five bedroom mansion is an elephant to you . |
| 22 | She told them everything , right up to the fact that two of the notorious Felton brothers had actually brought her home to this very street , only to find there was no home to go to . |
| 23 | All Motor Safari 's instructors are members of the Driving Instructors Association , and the fact that two of the instructors are women proves that off-road driving is not primarily a macho pastime . |
| 24 | The ‘ trans-Cameroon highway ’ — the logging road , which would provide access to a vast tract of pristine African rainforest — may yet become a reality , thanks to Japanese funding , and despite the fact that two of the world 's largest financial institutions have refused , on environmental grounds , to back it . |
| 25 | The Holy Roman Emperor , the shah of Persia and the sultan in Constantinople were honoured with large sheets ( the fact that two of the three were non-European illustrates how large a role Asia still played in Russian foreign policy ) , while the kings of Sweden , Poland , England and Denmark had to be content with smaller ones . |
| 26 | And this in spite of the fact that two-thirds of the ‘ excellent ’ companies analysed had fallen from grace by 1987 , when Peters himself brazenly opened his third book , Thriving on Chaos , with the statement : ‘ There are no excellent companies ’ . |
| 27 | Ten new vats had been installed since Christmas , there was a new dryer , the warehouse had been extended — and all this had been achieved despite the fact that twenty of the feeble " yellows " were still dying every month from malaria ! |
| 28 | The generational nature of the Takeshita faction 's split was underlined by the fact that 19 of the 23 first and second-term lower house members of the faction were among those who transferred their loyalty to Hata and Ozawa . |
| 29 | For this reason , the fact that three of the forty women had paid domestic help does not disqualify them from the title ‘ housewife ’ . |
| 30 | The fact that three of the six sectors were nationalized — coal , electricity and railways — helped . |