Example sentences of "fact [that] it is [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Aldrovandi Palace is a distinctive hotel of style , a characteristic reflected in the fact that it is a member of prestigious Leading Hotels of the World group . |
| 2 | Moreover , not only is the dormant company then entitled to the exemption from auditing but , if it would have been entitled to the exemptions of a small company under section 246 but for the fact that it is a member of an ineligible group , it will also be entitled to those exemptions ; until it ceases to be dormant or no longer qualifies to make itself exempt under section 250 . |
| 3 | More often than not , a translator will want the reader to accept a given translation as a text in its own right , if possible without being unduly alerted to the fact that it is a translation . |
| 4 | Descartes says that ‘ the nature of matter or of body … does not consist in its being hard , or heavy , or coloured … but solely in the fact that it is a substance extended in length , breadth , and depth . ’ |
| 5 | For instance , a clause providing for auditors to value shares may state that the auditor is to certify their " fair value " or similar words ( see 3.5 ) ; a minority holding of shares is to be valued without regard to the fact that it is a minority holding ( see 3.6 ) ; surveyors have to assume certain facts and disregard others in establishing a rental ( see 2.3.3 ) . |
| 6 | The fact that it is a salamander can be experimentally demonstrated by feeding it with thyroid extract . |
| 7 | After all it was introduced , and Mrs Thatcher has made a great deal of the fact that it is a head tax not a property tax , it 's the voters she wants answerable , well I 've yet to find an empty house that voted . |
| 8 | The Bure Valley Railway is extraordinary in the fact that it is a brand new railway with especially designed buildings , stations and facilities at each end . |
| 9 | That suspicion of the referendum or plebiscite which we noted was partly based on the fact that it is a device which had been used by some dictators and despots to give their rule at least the semblance of a basis in popular consent . |
| 10 | Its popularity probably lies in the fact that it is a game which is cheap and easy to play and understand . |
| 11 | I think if you do n't do that , you 'll very easily become over-influenced at the time by the fact that it is a crisis you 're dealing with . |
| 12 | If you want a perceptron or a BM to learn to recognise some class of examples , you have to provide it with a ) examples of the class b ) counter examples c ) for each training instance , the fact that it is an example or a counter example . |
| 13 | The reason why ( 6 ) is perceived as if it was assignment is that the indefinitizing effect of the determiner means that the hearer is granted no more about the entity in post-copular position than : ( a ) The properties denoted by the noun used ; ( b ) The fact that it is an entity ; but the latter fact has already been given by the subject noun phrase ; hence the effect , with such a determiner , amounts to the same thing , in practice ( but not in terms of intensional pattern ) , as simple assignment . |
| 14 | Individual judges may give more or less weight to the fact that it is the government rather than Parliament which drafts legislation and decides what it shall contain . |
| 15 | Of particular importance , Lane feels , is the fact that it is the government authorities and not the party that have legal authority over the activity of enterprises and the adminstration of laws ( Lane 1978 , p. 181 ) . |
| 16 | In Germany , as in America , the considerable involvement of federal grants in the financing of the Länder , together with the fact that it is the Union which decides the bulk of taxes , allow for deep central influence on Länder policy making . |
| 17 | Is it surprising that the public should resist such an attempt to politicise the police , despite the fact that it is the policy of the Opposition ? |
| 18 | Despite the fact that it is the property of not being constrained by overall accuracy that most concerned Marshall et al. |