Example sentences of "fact that [pers pn] have [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could I also say one thing finally , and that is the fact that we 've tried to run together the alteration and the greenbelt local plan as concurrently er as possible , er it would appear that the timing erm is coming together reasonably satisfactorily erm in that we hope that the report from the greenbelt local plan enquiry , is not to er far distant , erm and we would expect , sir , that you will be reporting on the proceedings at this examination in public er in the not to distant future , well I think I did give an undertaking at the greenbelt local plan enquiry that the County Council , because the two are er interrelated to a degree , that I would expect the County Council would not wish to pursue either report er until er the other er is available , and that seems to the County Council to be entirely sensible , that the two reports , the structure plan alteration and the greenbelt local plan enquiry , erm should be looked at together . |
| 2 | Erm I 've had a word with Kevin and he does recognize the fact that we 've got to get something . |
| 3 | The press also reported the fact that we had achieved operating profits of £23.4 million — no mean achievement in the current economic climate — increased turnover by our industrial businesses and significant growth in our UK private sector business and in overseas sales . |
| 4 | The fact that they 've chosen to have somebody representing them in objection to the new settlement proposal I think is as strong an indication as you can get that the local people do n't actually support the council on this point . |
| 5 | Is not the success story of the present Government 's policy the fact that they have managed to turn British Steel into a profit-making industry ? |
| 6 | The Chancellor and the Prime Minister are patting themselves on the back for the fact that they have managed to reduce British inflation rates to something like the German levels , but there is a difference between the two . |
| 7 | The fact that he had agreed to surrender his right to the greater claim — that of the crown of France — in return for concession on the sovereignty issue shows where , in 1360 , Edward III 's priorities lay . |
| 8 | Fran glared at him , cursing the fact that he had managed to get the last word on her programme ! |
| 9 | Witness to de Castelnau 's very real ability was the fact that he had managed to rise so high in the French Army . |
| 10 | One of the lads is proud of the fact that he has managed to avoid doing any writing for the past year or so ! |
| 11 | The Chairman of the Select Committee on Energy apologised to me earlier for the fact that he has had to leave the Chamber because he is due to make a speech on clean coal technology elsewhere in London . |
| 12 | The fact that he has chosen to go away and leave me means that he does not love me . |
| 13 | In its own way the co-operative was quite a success story if only for the fact that it had kept going more or less continuously for almost five years . |
| 14 | Harvard has a reputation as the premier medical school in North America , and the fact that it has chosen to introduce sweeping changes in its course is likely to make other schools take stock of what it is doing . |
| 15 | The fact that I had failed to find any companions did n't help my cause very much . |
| 16 | My clever chat would avail me nothing in the face of the fact that I had chosen to ally myself with a woman who practically peed her pants at some salesman 's blue jokes . |
| 17 | ‘ And , while I appreciate your charitable intent in trying to comfort me for Lotta 's absence from my bed , I tell you once more that the time when I might have needed consolation for Lotta 's tricks has long since passed , and the fact that I 've chosen to live the life of a monk for the past six months is because until the past few days I have felt no desire to give in to the temptations paraded before me . ’ |
| 18 | yeah I think that 's a very good point that , that the fact that you 've lost control whether its of your , your own personal safety |
| 19 | I think the thing is going to come unstuck in the , I think the biggest thing is , I was thinking , is the fact that you 've got to get I would n't get a commitment from Social Services until they see a property actually ready for occupation . |
| 20 | I think the health length of waiting lists for operations and the furore about the fact that you 've got to ring up and find where the shortest list is and all that |
| 21 | If you think the average salary of officer posts on the City Council are twenty thousand pounds , the fact that you 've got to pay their superannuation , insurance , provide them with desk space and all the necessary support , it 's a terrific sum to employ a person . |
| 22 | His opinion had been reinforced by the fact that she had agreed to sail with Clive . |
| 23 | That and the fact that she had managed to stir all those self-doubts that had been hovering at the back of her mind . |