Example sentences of "[art] fact [was/were] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact was that she had achieved something . |
| 2 | The fact was that Charles gave up shooting for a few years because he had simply grown bored with it : it was too easy to blast away overfed birds frightened into the air by a band of beaters . |
| 3 | To say nothing of the fact that ‘ charity ’ should not have been invoked in this issue , the fact was that the excruciating passion levels broke all records on this outing , bust all guts . |
| 4 | The fact was that he was not cerebral ; he was a reflex of confusing emotions and instant passions . |
| 5 | The fact was that the board got it wrong and we took the blame . |
| 6 | The fact was that talking to her either in person or on the phone gave him a sort of erection . |
| 7 | The fact was that Churchill and Eden were not of like minds and did not associate closely until Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940 . |
| 8 | The fact was that his own heart had grown irresistibly fond of the love of his life , Senora Isabel-Maria Estanguet de Moss , whose husband had just been posted to the Argentinian Embassy in Brussels . |
| 9 | The fact was that he had been seduced . |
| 10 | While the Danzigers could ignore neither Poland 's claims to historic rights , nor the Versailles arrangements , the fact was that Danzig was sitting on a potential gold-mine . |
| 11 | Regardless of where their support came from , the fact was that possession of 38 seats in the Volkstag meant they could now rule with little or no reference to the other parties . |
| 12 | The fact was that Sir Herbert was a desperately unhappy man . |
| 13 | Although Neil Kinnock might disagree about who had colonized whom , the fact was that between 1984 and 1987 relations between left-wing urban Labour councils and the lesbian and gay movement became very close . |
| 14 | Whatever the complications may have been , and whatever those theatre nurses may have thought , the fact was that Kirsty had suffered no physical ill-effects once she was over the post-operative period . |
| 15 | The fact was that he was enjoying the experience . |
| 16 | His troubles in 1971 , however , were not just the March and his propensity for accidents : the fact was that he was now an experienced F3 driver , known to be quick , but by the nature of the formula was racing against a lot of people who were just beginners and knew far less than he did about the sport . |
| 17 | The fact was that distrust of Chamberlain ran so deep that even the most unequivocal supporter of rearmament in the labour movement could not give unreserved support to his Government 's military preparations . |
| 18 | The fact was that there was no place in British films for an actor of Burton 's particular quality and no director to take him up . |
| 19 | The fact was that the facilities were not there . |
| 20 | The fact was that Edward could not . |
| 21 | None the less the fact was that the English had hung on , and there seemed little chance that they would be dislodged . |
| 22 | The fact was that both young women shared an unspoken anxiety for Fleury 's safety and though Louise had not yet confided her feelings for him to Miriam , she really did not need to do so for these feelings were plain enough already . |
| 23 | The fact was that I just did n't know . |
| 24 | The fact was that for a single man the job offered almost half the sum allotted to a couple . |
| 25 | But the fact was that when it came to practical jokes , he regarded anybody as fair game , from the most fleeting acquaintance to the dearest friend . |
| 26 | Although Kraal tried his hardest to do as Minch had told him and talk to Creggan , the fact was that he was not very good at it . |
| 27 | But the fact was that ninety-nine per cent of his energy , his concentration , his time , and his money was devoted to his business . |
| 28 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 29 | The fact was that the London green belt estates represented probably the largest single initiative by local authorities in the face of the inadequacies of planning legislation prior to 1947 . |
| 30 | The fact was that the activity of town planning had little specific to say about urban reconstruction . |