Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] by [art] fact " in BNC.
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| 1 | Round in 67 , he was irritated only by the fact that he had left it too late to play a postal part in the election . |
| 2 | The soundproofing between its three sections is excellent and helped enormously by the fact that the PA system drops sound down from the ceiling rather than pushing it out from the front . |
| 3 | Two such quantities q and p are always related physically by the fact that their combined dimensions are those of action ; that is , the product q p can always be assigned a value in units of Planck 's constant k . |
| 4 | The problem is compounded further by the fact that software houses are unable to predict what precise configuration is going to be present and so they are forced to provide numerous drivers for peripherals such as displays and printers . |
| 5 | It is a beautiful and very moving story , marred only by the fact that it does not bear the remotest resemblance to what actually happens . |
| 6 | I was invited to attend as a ‘ participating observer ’ and the time I spent in the Social Studies group , I remember as one of the most exciting and productive in my educational experience , marred only by the fact that the conference had to end a little early because the money ran out . |
| 7 | Rich and protean , his word-seam seemed to me to be the very fount of knowledge itself , a mulchy conceptual bed which might be sown merely by the fact of being listened to , thus engendering all ideas for all time . |
| 8 | The outrage was piqued further by the fact that the final play-off was between Ireland and Britain , and sentimentality about a mythical Ireland — a sentiment that does no service to the modern industrial state that Ireland is striving to become — goes hand in hand with staunch anti-British feelings . |
| 9 | The distinction between a movement and a party , or other organized group , is shown also by the fact that large-scale movements tend to produce within themselves a variety of more or less directly political groups , as did the nineteenth-century labour movement ; and the subsequent course of political action has then to be understood partly in terms of the relation between the broader movement and the various organized groups . |
| 10 | The tight schedule will be helped slightly by the fact that Great Britain are due to face France just once next season away on April 10 with the home leg having been scrapped . |
| 11 | The tight schedule will be helped slightly by the fact that Great Britain are due to face France just once next season away on April 10 with the home leg having been scrapped . |
| 12 | Such downgraded land will still have to be pumped and embanked , since it will have dropped even further below sea-level , a situation worsened both by the fact that , due to the tilt of the land , eastern England is steadily falling in relation to the level of the North Sea , and by a possible rise in sea-level due to the greenhouse effect . |
| 13 | It must be said , however , that this emerging new image for consultancies has been helped enormously by the fact that these quoted consultancies are substantially based in financial public relations which , of course , the City of London , Merchant Banks , and business interests in general do understand and accept as a legitimate part of their world . |
| 14 | It was a startling promise , stimulated perhaps by the fact that he did not have to reveal his name and live up to his words . |
| 15 | He did not particularly like Franco whose view on life was rather cynical , redeemed only by the fact that he was quite willing to listen to Sandison 's halting efforts to tell his tale in Italian . |
| 16 | The effectiveness of the Labour Spain Committee was impaired both by the fact that it was was associated with the movement in the constituency Labour parties and also because it was effectively advocating a a popular front against fascism , which the Labour Party continued to reject throughout the 1930s ; after the political disasters of 1931 it wanted no treating with its political enemies whether of the left or the right . |
| 17 | Stated in this stark form , the revenue 's position appears to me , as a matter of common justice , to be unsustainable ; and the injustice is rendered worse by the fact that it involves , as Nolan J. pointed out [ 1989 ] 1 W.L.R. 137 , 140 , the revenue having the benefit of a massive interest-free loan as the fruit of its unlawful action . |
| 18 | The T 2 observations may be affected simply by the fact that this is at least a second experience of being observed , i.e. there may be a learning effect due to T 1 . |
| 19 | Is he aware that that situation will be compounded substantially by the fact that there are about 1,700 ex-service families currently inhabiting Ministry of Defence premises to which , strictly , they have no title ? |
| 20 | It is personal and not explained solely by the fact that Lang has a marginal seat and the SNP is the main competitor . |
| 21 | It was almost as small as the circle of names and acquaintances of the average senior civil servant , and was reduced further by the fact that once they had got on to a board , many businessmen rapidly came to resent the amount of time the job demanded . |
| 22 | For example , the concentration of crime in the lower social class , which was the starting point for all the main sociological theories , could be explained simply by the fact that members of the lower social class were more likely to be selected for labelling . |
| 23 | This phenomenon could be explained simply by the fact that the stiffness of A-tracts and not just curvature influences the electrophoretic behaviour as was previously suggested ( 8,9 ) . |
| 24 | The comparative absence of protest in the fifteenth century may be explained simply by the fact that depopulation was less of a social problem , and that if a lord evicted tenants , they still had a reasonable prospect of finding land elsewhere . |
| 25 | An additional problem that has dogged personality theories is that of tautology ; if the categories are to mean anything , they must not be identified only by the fact that the people who fall into them tend to commit crimes . |
| 26 | By contrast , in the Rose Theatre case the judge seems to have been influenced to deny standing partly by the fact that the Trust had been formed only for the purpose of campaigning for the preservation of the remains of the theatre ; whereas the same judge in another case accorded standing to challenge a grant of planning permission to a representative of a snake-preservation society which had been active on the site in question for many years and had ‘ put money into it ’ . |
| 27 | It is reinforced further by the fact that they have a low default risk . |
| 28 | This is suggested particularly by the fact that there is no evidence of retrograde or anterograde effects around the arousing slides . |