Example sentences of "from the fact that [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the particular psychological shock involved in this one arose from the fact that for the previous two centuries family ties among the landholding classes of England and Scotland and inter-marriage between the royal families had made relations between the two countries very close . |
| 2 | Jimmy Carter 's presidency , like that of Gerald Ford , began on an optimistic note with commentators deriving satisfaction from the fact that for the first time for eight years president and Congress would be in the hands of the same party . |
| 3 | The penny pinching arises from the fact that with the change in the school leaving date there is now no Easter leavers . |
| 4 | The only defect in Statutes in Force , apart from the fact that at the time of writing it is incomplete , is that it does not provide proper annotations to the statutes . |
| 5 | The humour , I think , came from the fact that at the time of asking I was lying with my head near the ground and my feet near the ceiling and the man in question had most of his right hand in my mouth , his other hand on a high-power drill and his knee wedged round his own spittoon . |
| 6 | We know this from the fact that on the evening of the day Pope John announced his Council , Cardinal Montini rang his old mentor , the Oratorian Giulio Bevilacqua , and said : ‘ This holy old boy does n't realize what a hornet 's nest he 's stirring up . ’ |
| 7 | Kier accounts for her free-thinking clothes sense from the fact that from the age of three her mother left her to dress herself . |
| 8 | Apart from the fact that in the Fearon case the residence requirement was not coupled with a nationality requirement , that case can be distinguished on several counts . |
| 9 | The important point emerges from the fact that in the first and third sentences we are dealing with a certain kind of disparity and in the second with the possibility of a disparity ( albeit one that is denied ) . |