Example sentences of "fact [that] it [is] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one point we were going to have to travel straight from Rio to Germany — a technical nightmare with equipment , not to mention the fact that it 's physically shattering . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The fact that it 's so systematic , going effectively unpunished and often performed by people known to the victims makes it more horrific . |
| 3 | The comparative simplicity of the equipment and the fact that it 's so easy to transport and launch has got loads of newcomers out onto the water . |
| 4 | I would like to see them actually promote the fact that it 's very much an independent assessment . |
| 5 | I think it boils down to the fact that it 's fairly economic to transport vast quantities of people but not to transport from the outer edges and the odd bits in the middle and there 's no way that they 're going to get a full and comprehensive service come what may . |
| 6 | She 'll insist on going to the toilet , despite the fact that it 's too late . |
| 7 | And indeed , in efforts to des to also confirm our reasonableness in the figure that we 've put forward , despite the fact that it 's much higher than the counties , I have included in my submission , paragraph thirty nine , that there are a number of factors we could have taken into account , but have n't have chosen not to do so , er which would have in fact upped the dwelling requirement . |
| 8 | You know they sleep with both eyes open and a rifle under the pillow-not to mention the fact that it 's still lambing season and most of them will be up all night ! |
| 9 | The people you mix with — friends and enemies ; the fact that it 's often tough to tell them apart . |
| 10 | The value of Hayek 's work as a representative theory of liberalism lies for us in its rigour and its comprehensiveness and in the fact that it is acutely aware of the importance of law . |
| 11 | The perks are specifically designed to encourage people to invest in their local water authority despite the fact that it is patently obvious that some are not going to be as attractive as others . |
| 12 | However , the fact that it is both long range and always attractive means that its effects all add up . |
| 13 | The 103/4 really does project the sound out and away from itself ; so much so in fact that it is genuinely hard sometimes to believe that it is actually responsible for what one is hearing . |
| 14 | But eventually the arguments all boil down to the fact that it is more economic to harvest the rainforest sustainably than clear-fell it in the idiotic way we have been doing until now , and that this is of immense benefit to us , the human species , because of the maintenance of that genetic diversity which will cure all sorts of dreadful diseases in the future . |
| 15 | Though the very fact that it is so traditional and so formal a poem in the pastoral tradition , held in the tightness of all the conventions that it employs , not only allows , but in some strange way makes possible , the intensity of personal feeling that it contains . |
| 16 | This is partly due to the different religious and cultural traditions , but is also influenced by the fact that it is extremely difficult to produce curved and flowing lines unless the knotting is reasonably fine . |
| 17 | What is not acknowledged is the fact that it is very difficult to tell someone their blood is no good or they can not do the job . |
| 18 | The fact that it is very difficult to do does n't prevent a lot of people wishing to achieve it , but it is very seldom that , in the industrial world , anybody has achieved and held continuously a pre-eminent position over a very long period of time . |
| 19 | Most significant of all has been the fact that it is now possible for banks to engage in a full range of securities related business along the same lines as the German universal banks , a practice which had hitherto been avoided in the UK through the imposition of self-imposed constraints . |
| 20 | Major alterations in the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries covered up the marble and we have to be grateful to renovations in 1904 for the fact that it is now visible again . |
| 21 | The difficulty in fully defining the process arises from the fact that it is essentially five-dimensional . |
| 22 | Furthermore , apart from the fact that it is often unclear , as a matter of law , whether a decision is illegal or not ( and so it would be unsafe just to ignore it ) , it is not the case that a void decision is for ever void . |
| 23 | Thus , taking the phrase which Bolinger uses as an example , it is certainly not the properties inherent in being a man that are strengthened when one utters a sentence such as : ( 19 ) walking into the bakery , I met the very man The same conclusion is indicated by the fact that it is perfectly satisfactory to use very in conjunction with a word like one ( as Bolinger himself observes ) , and yet this does not express any property which can be intensified , except singularity which is of course intensified by a quite different word ; note the following : ( 20 ) that is the very one ( 21 ) the supermarket did n't have a single one Actually , when very operates within a noun phrase it clearly acts as an intensifier of exactitude , not of quantity , so it is entirely natural that it should focus on the article ; that is , it does indeed qualify a property , but that property is , approximately , the notion " recognizable by my audience " , as expressed in the definite article . |
| 24 | Nicholas Reeves says that three years of collecting is reflected in the exhibition , ( among the difficulties of acquiring top quality pieces is the fact that it is currently illegal to export antiquities from Egypt ) . |
| 25 | He cited the following reasons for the phenomenon : the absence of an experienced environmental police in the east , the fact that it is around ten times cheaper to dump in the east than in the west , and the overall regulatory disorganization in the eastern states , which have yet to pass environmental legislation similar to that obtaining in the west . |