Example sentences of "fact that it [was/were] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One special feature of the materials is the fact that it was thoroughly tried and tested by the authors and their colleagues over a number of years before reaching its present form . |
| 2 | The advent of the boiled bait , not too long before the hair-rig , married very well to this new technique , for it later became apparent that the success of the hair-rig owed a lot to the fact that it was generally used with boilies . |
| 3 | Both the smallness of his fine of £2,000 and the fact that it was later remitted in return for a loan of £10,000 to James I provide early testimony of his value to the government . |
| 4 | ‘ The fact that it was eventually reinstated was not the point , ’ said Davies . |
| 5 | The authorities were more worried about this group than about the NL and only one document about it his so far been released , despite the fact that it was successfully infiltrated by several agents . |
| 6 | The candidate survey differed from the client survey in three respects : first , the rate of response was slightly lower , despite the fact that it was carefully based on the Financial Times listings of movements of executives and on firms where much headhunting was known to have taken place ; second , the views of headhunters were more negative ; and third , none would mention the names of specific search firms or venture opinions on them in particular . |
| 7 | The fact that it was extensively broadcast on television meant that news of the acquittal of the defendants was greeted with widespread disbelief and anger [ see p. 38856 ] . |
| 8 | Daube argued several years ago that ‘ it is time to revise our legal construction … of surgery in general ’ , and criticized the fact that it was still considered an assault rendered lawful by consent . |
| 9 | With respect , I find this comment hard to follow in the light of the first of the questions asked in Reg. v. Lawrence and the answer to it , the passages from Viscount Dilhorne 's speech already cited , the fact that it was specifically argued ‘ appropriates is meant in a pejorative , rather than a neutral , sense in that the appropriation is against the will of the owner , ’ and finally that dishonesty was common ground . |
| 10 | With respect , I find this comment hard to follow in the light of the first of the questions asked in Reg. v. Lawrence and the answer to it , the passages from Viscount Dilhorne 's speech already cited , the fact that it was specifically argued ‘ appropriates is meant in a pejorative , rather than a neutral , sense in that the appropriation is against the will of the owner , ’ and finally that dishonesty was common ground . |
| 11 | You 've heard my explanation of the fact that it was poorly worded and I think that is a great shame . |
| 12 | The upward trend in the numbers of unemployed getting supplementary benefit , for example , continued in the 1980s ; the numbers trebled until two-thirds of all the unemployed received this benefit , despite the fact that it was never designed for them . |
| 13 | Brewed by Courage , its name stems from the fact that it was once exported to Russia where it was so popular with the Czarist court that it was brewed under licence in Estonia until the 1917 revolution . |
| 14 | The name stems from the fact that it was once exported to imperial Russia where it was popular with the Czarist court . |
| 15 | The size of the city and the fact that it was so spread out , too , was a factor in its favour , it being almost impossible to flatten London with the HE and incendiary bombs of those days . |
| 16 | The cost to God of his redemptive act is underlined by the fact that it was only achieved through the death of his Son . |