Example sentences of "fact that [pers pn] have [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is not one reason for the remarkable increase in the number of young people in training — from 6,000 in 1979 to 260,000 today — the fact that we have returned to the common-sense recognition that vocational training is of considerable value and more closely reflects the abilities of many young people ? |
| 2 | The dazibao writers regretted the fact that they had to resort to this medium for making their opinions known . |
| 3 | At the fact that he had seemed to be regretting nothing ? |
| 4 | If he 'd explained at the beginning — and it did n't cancel out the fact that he 'd lied to her , did it ? |
| 5 | He attributed the group 's resilience to the fact that it had stuck to its specialist glossy ‘ how-to ’ books and continued to ‘ eschew the topical and the trendy ’ . |
| 6 | The fact that you 've come to the end of the the . |
| 7 | The very fact that you have written to me suggests that you really would n't mind taking things further with him . |
| 8 | She did n't want the fact that she had written to me to be discovered , and perhaps be seen by her parents as another act of disobedience , causing another row . |
| 9 | The fact that she had expected to be cosseted by the subjects of her own journalistic attentions in the past had made her no warier of the reporters she was inviting . |
| 10 | Erm , and obviously the fact that she 's sent to Lowood shows that it 's |