Example sentences of "[art] fact [that] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A university education should be characterised by the fact that one ‘ learns to learn ’ rather than ‘ learns by being taught ’ . |
| 2 | Pei 's generosity with space , the fact that one never feels oppressed by ceilings ( as I always do at Lasdun 's National Theatre ) , reveals him as a distinctive architectural sculptor . |
| 3 | With many relationships the case for self-creation is even stronger , since in them the fact that one chose to have a relationship of a certain kind and chose one 's partner is part of what makes the relationship valuable . |
| 4 | A drawback to this plan was the weather — that is to say , several large puddles and patches of mud were in evidence — and the fact that one would need to return to the billiard room again at some point to bolt the french windows from the inside . |
| 5 | It is a technically very difficult problem compounded by the fact that one has no idea of what to look for , and the quantities may be minute . |
| 6 | Haitink is not one given to lofty poetics ( try the decidedly unmagical , if immaculately balanced gossamer string texturing of [ iii ] ) , nor outbursts of uncontrollable excitement ( close of [ i ] ) , yet the fact that one arrives at the finale with one 's emotions reasonably intact pays dividends in the long-term , especially as the conductor and the BPO ( on stunning form , incidentally ) raise the emotional temperature several notches for this glorious movement . |
| 7 | However , the fact that one is a non-executive director does not diminish one 's legal duties or responsibilities . |
| 8 | Think about it : if marriage is a partnership , the fact that one may be functioning in a responsibility that provides the income does not entitle that partner to sole ownership . |
| 9 | The fact that one has a clear conscience is not always a sign of right responses to the trials and temptations of life so much as an appropriate response to sin and guilt . |
| 10 | As mentioned before , the fact that one may not approve of a practice can not be a reason for wishing to have it outlawed . |
| 11 | And does the fact that one in four people in Britain now lives alone mean that we have finally achieved the highest aspirations of humanity , or that we are victims of an ideology of individualism that has distorted even our deepest relationships ? |
| 12 | However , where the police or Customs & Excise officers are acting under the authority of the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 it is an offence for the practitioner to tell anyone anything regarding their investigation ; even the fact that one is taking place . |
| 13 | In other words , the differences between the two may come down to the fact that one is a linguist interested in grammar , while the other is a psychologist interested in the functional relations between language and the immediate context . |
| 14 | I realize that is an admission of cowardice , but one of the few consolations of approaching middle age is the fact that one no longer objects to having to admit a weakness . |
| 15 | The fact that one can always see what one has said as a string of words , which might be interpreted in this way or that , does not entail that whenever one says something there is an accompanying interpretation going through one 's head . |
| 16 | What this means is that the taking of leisure is self-defeating ; the fact that one is one 's own boss adds to , rather than subtracts from , the psychological pressures to do housework . |
| 17 | It is a striking reminder of the pastoral rural life of long ago and the first pointer to the fact that one is entering ancient quarters . |
| 18 | But why ( if it were not for the fact that one is a Christian ) should one be wanting to stay with the experience of women within the biblical tradition ? |
| 19 | Further , she argues from the fact that one wills alienation to be overcome , that indeed it is overcome . |
| 20 | Allowing for the fact that one knows oneself to be above suspicion — has any action or attitude of one 's own been such as to inspire suspicion in others ? |
| 21 | The major differences between speech and writing derive from the fact that one is essentially transitory and the other is designed to be permanent . |
| 22 | The fact that one can commit words to paper without any apparent loss of intelligibility suggests that there is , in fact , a clean division between the lexical and the non-verbal component of human communication , and that the so-called kinesic variables such as facial expression , posture , and hand movements are just optional extras . |
| 23 | But so is the fact that one or both families have lived in the same area for four generations . |
| 24 | I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box , one keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead … which should make a difference … should n't it ? |
| 25 | However , in the case of particles emitted from a black hole , the fact that one can not observe what is going on inside the black hole means that one can definitely predict neither the positions nor the velocities of the emitted particles . |
| 26 | But people tend to confuse the fact that one may be able to guess what an individual is likely to choose with the notion that the choice is not free . |
| 27 | While most students not in receipt of a job offer were making applications and attending interviews at the time they completed the Initial destinations questionnaires , the fact that one third of students would be looking for employment at the end of the courses can only be regarded as a disappointing , and rather unexpected , finding . |
| 28 | This admittedly circuitous line of reasoning is made necessary first by the undoubted presence of anachronisms in the Kanunname , as demonstrated by Dilger , and second by the fact that one does not meet the terms and in Taskopruzade , who is , of course , the principal , and indeed almost the only , source of information about the learned hierarchy before roughly 1550 . |
| 29 | They reported back at the end of January 1991 and commented that one of the reasons for the massive underspending was the fact that one had to have three companies before one could apply . |
| 30 | That is not the proposition , but the fact that one does not ban it does not mean that , with the knowledge that we now possess , we do not regard it as a debilitating and dangerous influence on society , and especially young people . |