Example sentences of "the fact that [pers pn] had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he had also mentioned the fact that they had observed Dersingham , presumably not too many hours after the discovery of the car in the Broad , with trousers which were dripping wet ? |
| 2 | Nomura Securities , Nikko Securities , Daiwa Securities and Yamaichi Securities were accused by the national tax authorities of having attempted to conceal the fact that they had made compensation payments to certain large clients who had made losses after taking their investment advice . |
| 3 | Despite the fact that they had stopped their car , neither of the Shepherds seemed to care how she was , or whether she had done herself any harm sleep-walking up to the Monument . |
| 4 | Their entry into the Town Boys appeared to rest not only on the fact that they had gained reputations but also on their ability to maintain such reputations in the absence of the symbolic dress and tokens of status which had assisted them in the past . |
| 5 | Those who then sat the exam were instructed to put on their application forms that they had studied the course privately , so the fact that they had studied from but not paid for the Henley course would not be traced . |
| 6 | I felt that it was too easy for what were essentially white women 's publishers culling some short stories and poems from Blackwomen and then hailing the fact that they had published x-dozen Blackwomen writers . |
| 7 | True , we had shown that protein and RNA synthesis increased when chicks were exposed to the stimulus , but how could we be sure this was due to the fact that they had learned something about it ? |
| 8 | Even though they had occupied it separately , the fact that they had shared his bed created an intimacy that was impossible to ignore . |
| 9 | Lacking more substantive arguments for voting Labour , Gaitskell promised an extravagant ‘ electioneering'-type budget if returned to office , a ploy which the Tory leaders were able to ridicule despite the fact that they had started that particular game . |
| 10 | But the fact that they had supposed this at all suggests some appreciation of cattle-raiding 's implicit purpose . |
| 11 | The fact that they had brought these missiles with them showed their aggressive intentions . |
| 12 | The fact that we had met Michael and Janet Roberts came up , and he was moved to explain that , with his growing acquaintanceship with the children of his friends — to several of whom he had become godfather — he had felt the need to adopt some sobriquet less solemn than Uncle . |
| 13 | Not all of the women who took that decision were separatist by any means , but the fact that we had rejected men was not a gesture of feminism alone . |
| 14 | The fact that we had ventured into disputed territory meant nothing to my father . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He over-simplified American reactions with his comment that they " particularly resented the fact that we had acted on our own without American permission or concurrence . " |
| 17 | The landlord was aware of the fact that she had made that application but , notwithstanding that , on 4 December 1989 he applied for execution . |
| 18 | And the fact that she had sent him away before he 'd had time to betray her was cold comfort , set against the enormity of that loss . |
| 19 | It was made all the more infuriating by the fact that she had dressed with more than usual care , splashing out far more than she could afford on a red silk jersey creation from an expensive boutique . |
| 20 | She was very depressed , until they moved house , which gave her something to concentrate on , so she could settle down to the fact that she had retired . |
| 21 | For the first time since her escape she was very conscious of the fact that she had given birth only a month before and could even fancy she felt a pulling sensation where the fundament stitches had been . |
| 22 | I wanted to ask whether she thought her own life unwasted and whether the fact that she had given birth to me was sufficient justification for it . |
| 23 | The chair was slipping , although its first speed had been checked by the fact that she had fallen in front of the wheels . |
| 24 | All due , of course , to the fact that she had bested Travis McKenna . |
| 25 | Dinah thanked her salary for the latter 's white-painted existence , and the fact that she had thrashed Lilian enough to ensure silence among the rest . |
| 26 | He did not love her , but she would make a remarkable duchess , and the fact that she had inherited more than her share of her papa 's famous shrewdness was a bonus which would assist the Blaines and make their future secure . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | McLeish , warmed by the fact that she had taken the trouble to find out a bit about him , confirmed he had been at Reading University and had worked as a young sergeant in the Flying Squad . |
| 29 | Jackman has played Martin twice in the last eight months and lost both times , but Jackman was buoyed by the fact that she had taken a game off her on each occasion . |
| 30 | 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 . |