Example sentences of "fact that [pron] be [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The criticism we are getting and the fact that everybody is writing us off does n't bother us a bit . |
| 2 | The fact that everyone is writing us off does n't bother us . |
| 3 | But they may find it difficult , they must feel like they 've lost their dignity , the fact that we 're washing them . |
| 4 | As important as the , the erm subscriptions in the new union will be , I think we need to also address the fact that we are saying we 're gon na fall for members are n't we ? |
| 5 | The only disappointing aspect of the evening was the fact that we were denied our customary postmatch interview with Mr Taylor . |
| 6 | Ignore the fact that they are holding you , and hit them first and fast . |
| 7 | The advisers did not always accept these arguments and pointed to the fact that they were comparing what they had seen with other schools . |
| 8 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
| 9 | But long before he reaches him he recognizes him — from the way he 's sitting , sprawled back in an armchair with his feet on a coffee-table , reading an ancient Amazing Science Fiction ; from his spectacles and rumpled hair ; from the fact that he 's taken his shoes and socks off to cool his feet , and tossed them down on the coffee-table ; from the way he does n't look up , even as Howard comes right up to him , goggling head leading the way , unable to believe his eyes . |
| 10 | And despite the fact that he is unveiling his Cicciolina-inspired work at a time when sexually-adventurous artists are regularly harassed , progressive museum directors arrested on obscenity charges , and an increasing number of independent films slapped with the dreaded X-rating — a proven box-office poison — Koons says he is not worried about achieving his goals . |
| 11 | He faxes me , not to own up to being Clark Kent , but to draw attention to the fact that he is giving his surplus Y-fronts to Mary Loudon ( author of Nuns Unveiled , Chatto it says here ) for onward transmission to the homeless . |
| 12 | Plus the fact that he was throwing his weight around with the police seemed to say Whitehall and no small potatoes , so we started with that . |
| 13 | The fact that he was kissing her , holding her in his arms , did n't mean her feelings were reciprocated . |
| 14 | With his dark good looks , Luke Calder was a devastatingly attractive man , but right at that moment Fran was more concerned by the fact that he was watching her as though he would like to take her by her slender neck and shake her ! |
| 15 | There came a day shortly afterwards when I could no longer ignore the fact that he was losing his mind . |
| 16 | His hair was cut close into a fringe , to-make the best of the fact that he was losing it . |
| 17 | There were no words in the experience , but he became aware of the fact that he was keeping something at bay ; or another way of looking at it would be that he was wearing some rigid outer clothing , like corsets or a suit of armour . |
| 18 | I recently asked Lord King of British Airways about his decision to buy Boeing aircraft and United States General Electric aero engines — not only that , but the fact that he was giving them a foothold in Britain at the expense of Rolls-Royce . |
| 19 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
| 20 | The fact that he was pulling his head back and down , when he thought he was putting it forward and up , was positive proof that he could no longer trust his physical impressions . |
| 21 | That the party has little popular support , even within its own ranks , is shown by the fact that it is purging its own educated ‘ native ’ members who might voice discontent over the party 's subservience to Soviet Russia … |
| 22 | The fact that I am conning myself , and know it , does not , strange to say , seem to render the technique ineffective . |
| 23 | Fact that I was calling him a murderer had nothing to do with it . |
| 24 | ‘ I got round them by selling to them the fact that I was doing what they wanted me to do which was to get out into the business world and make contacts . |
| 25 | It was n't what I was doing that was turning her on but the fact that I was doing it there , doing it then , in front of her husband and her husband 's partner and her husband 's partner 's wife and one of her own colleagues . |
| 26 | Ca n't you stand the fact that I 'm seeing you as a fallible human being instead of the flawless cardboard cut-out you like to pretend to be ? ’ |
| 27 | Sometimes the fact that you are doing something concrete to help someone with whom you can empathise can help you to forget your own personal misgivings . |
| 28 | Your only problem now is the fact that you 're finding it difficult to get on with work and responsibilities ! |
| 29 | During the course of this session , I repeatedly reminded her of the fact that she was seeing something which had happened some time ago and that time had proved her recovery to be complete — something which had been born out by the numerous examinations and X-rays she had since undergone . |
| 30 | erm when I was looking at this , this picture of the , of the Brettan Girls , I erm , I was really particularly struck by the bo , the mild head of one of the dancers and the fact that she was rubbing her , her heal , erm and it gave me a voice for , for this poem , I was also drawn by the dismissal , there 's a goose in the painting , there 's four , four geese and one of them is dismissing the , the , the winner outright and erm I found his look very , very interesting and , and I could n't help but compare the lies of these four dancers with those within erm from the later period as the eye that , that , that Gaugin painted later on . |