Example sentences of "[adj] fact [that] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This highlights the interesting fact that UPH effectively owned the site until days before Telecom purchased . |
| 2 | The mere fact that Nizan , in an important article on Chamson published in 1935 , chose to give prominence to the contribution of Bukharin at the 1934 Congress is symptomatic of the fact that an acceptance of the ideological function of literature does not signal in Nizan 's eyes the complete abandonment of art to the demands of ideology . |
| 3 | It is against that background that I return to the conclusion of the majority of the Court of Appeal that the mere fact that Wickes might be able to advance such an argument founded upon article 30 , which was at least not a groundless argument , compelled the Court of Appeal to require an undertaking in damages from the council . |
| 4 | The mere fact that Penry Vaughan wished to go on seeing her , however few and far between their meetings , did wonders for her self-esteem . |
| 5 | Huddled together in the large lounge u if for protection against the monster they had unwittingly unleashed by their programme , the members of the committee were fully aware of the literally sobering fact that Scotland Yard was on its way . |
| 6 | It took a long time because Louise kept interrupting with questions that Constance could n't answer and which seemed irrelevant beside the tremendous fact that Ludovico was waiting for her and she longed to run to him . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's a sad fact that Celtic have taken advantage of their top players , ’ he claimed , in his ghost-written biography , ‘ The kind of players who have supported Celtic and been really loyal to the club have been the ones who have suffered the most . ’ |
| 8 | Perhaps more significant than evidence of this kind is the simple fact that Jesus , on a number of crucial occasions in the Gospels , acts like a king , and does so quite deliberately . |
| 9 | Although a plot of sorts involves the intrigues of the Egyptian Queen , whose enfeebled brother and consort has no power to break her obsessive love for ‘ the Wanderer ’ , the story turns on the simple fact that Odysseus must for ever love an unattainable ideal . |
| 10 | In our view the the simple fact that Selby are prepared to take it , erm should n't carry that much weight . |
| 11 | It is an unfortunate fact that Klein has almost no sociological theory , and that Marcuse has no therapeutic theory . |
| 12 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 13 | It is quite apparent from the context that this is the same man ( apart from the supporting fact that Andrew is a name hardly used at this time ) . |
| 14 | It is a little-known fact that Laura owned a greyhound at the age of eleven . |
| 15 | 6 It is a little-known fact that Flaubert travelled on the London Underground . |
| 16 | That change of my perception of the case arises from the unhappy fact that Dr. F. had changed his evidence completely . |
| 17 | In the Life , he makes a number of references — to Johnson 's high regard for a man he knew to be in hiding in London on account of having borne arms in the ‘ 45 ; to the curious fact that Johnson wrote almost not at all during the year 1745 — though Boswell , a windblown reed at best where politics were concerned , attributes this to preparation for the great Dictionary , rather than to any politically-induced melancholia . |
| 18 | Very reluctantly MI6 was obliged to accept the terrible fact that Blake was a long-time Russian spy . |
| 19 | But many observers , considering the harsh fact that Cram has not won a major championship medal since the 1986 European Championships , believe the Jarrow ace is too old and too injury-prone to make the grade in the 5,000m . |
| 20 | The very fact that Nicholson should be nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor spoke for itself . |
| 21 | The very fact that Adrian Vredeman de Vries 's series of bronzes were taken from the garden by the Swedes in 1648 to decorate Drottningholm is some measure of Wallenstein 's patronage . |
| 22 | The very fact that Barthes does not present his work in terms of a theory of ideology means that the interpretive basis on which he is operating can be withheld from the reader . |
| 23 | On the other hand , materialists seem to be prevented by their materialism from allowing that there is any relevant fact that BS does not know . |
| 24 | Such remarks were the downside of the classy fact that Luke , despite his appearance and accent , was English . |
| 25 | Nick Gillingham 's proudest moment was winning a silver medal at the Seoul Olympics almost 2 years ago , but it 's a sad perhaps frustrating fact that Gillingham still finds himself in the shadow of his greatest rival , Adrian Moorhouse . |
| 26 | Despite the fact that Gassendi and Boyle took care to find a place for God and the soul in their revivals of the theory , its adherents had perpetually to struggle against the undeniable fact that Epicurus had introduced it as a foundation for his explicit materialistic atheism . |
| 27 | Strange facts that Flaubert might not have found strange . |