Example sentences of "is the fact that [pers pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More impressive than the print quality , though , is the fact that it comes in a smaller , faster box at no extra cost . |
| 2 | But the one thing that you can not change , unlike the colour , is the fact that it faces north . |
| 3 | Of even greater importance is the fact that it seems that many of the Roman estates , the holdings belonging to villas and towns , continued into the post-Roman period and beyond to emerge as the basic administrative units of late Saxon and medieval England . |
| 4 | Then there is the fact that he remains , even within the constraints of his later career as a commentator alongside Murray Walker on the Beeb , remarkably open and frank in his judgements , both of himself and of others . |
| 5 | It is the fact that he has stolen hope from a number of incredibly vulnerable HIV-positive women who turned to him for help . |
| 6 | And what makes his analysis so attractive is the fact that he has resolutely turned his back on the temptations to reduce what he has seen to some supposedly more fundamental principle of animal behaviour . |
| 7 | It is not the fact that as soon as she arrives she wants a drink which makes her alcoholic , it is the fact that she pretends that she has n't already had one by replacing ‘ the bottle ’ and by washing ‘ out the tumbler at the sink ’ . |