Example sentences of "fact [conj] [pron] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is not to say that we shall take dispositional mental facts or what is called the unconscious or the subconscious to be " another realm of consciousness " that we shall suppose there is consciousness and then inaccessible consciousness and then the brain , the latter involving dispositional mental facts . |
| 2 | I am aware of one educated patient , with known duodenal ulcer , who had started taking this medicine for headache , believing it to be Ayurvedic and despite the facts that it is labelled as containing 530 mg aspirin and 100 mg paracetamol and that he had been instructed by his doctor to refrain from all pain-relieving medications like aspirin . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The mere fact that something is sold as a bulk product to a specification need not , in itself , decide that one should move out of it . |
| 6 | ‘ The criticism we are getting and the fact that everybody is writing us off does n't bother us a bit . |
| 7 | It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us . |
| 8 | The fact that everyone is writing us off does n't bother us . |
| 9 | The fact that what is seen as crime varies with different societies does not affect the definition of crime — as an act which breaks the criminal law of the particular society . |
| 10 | Later , Hexam finds Radfoot 's body , which owing to his likeness to Harmon and the fact that he is dressed in Harmon 's clothes is identified as his . |
| 11 | Cherish the fact that he is wearing a cap ; the days of the anonymous helmet were drawing near . |
| 12 | The lack of Kingdom emphasis in John is probably explained by the fact that he is writing more in retrospect and possibly to play down false expectations in the contemporary Jewish understanding of the Kingdom . |
| 13 | I am sure that to conceal from a child the fact that he is adopted is both foolish and cruel . |
| 14 | So it 's wrong to read anything into the failure of Peter Mandelson to be given a room — although the fact that he is dossing down in Tony Blair 's office is surely evidence of his continuing influence with the Bright Young Things of the shadow cabinet . |
| 15 | As indicated , where no commission is charged and the broker is acting honestly , clear disclosure of the fact that he is acting as principal is sufficient . |
| 16 | Did the fact that he is accompanied by a doctor on the campaign trail help to lose him last week 's TV showdown with Clinton ? |
| 17 | On the other hand a diary entry such as ‘ ring X ’ is effective and if the entry is some way in the future it may be necessary to amplify with a trigger of the form ‘ ring X re Y ’ and to have easily accessible some factual data such as the X telephone number and some data re Y. In a different context a car driver will develop a strategy to ensure that he does not run out of petrol , he may rely on a light which appears when the tank is nearly empty or he may calculate from his expected travelling that he need not concern himself about the issue until at least the next weekend , or he may programme himself to react to the fact that he is approaching a particular garage . |
| 18 | The fact that he is paid by S1 is irrelevant because of the application of Sch 6 para 10(2) , which states that emoluments include all relevant sums paid by or receivable from the company 's subsidiary undertakings and any other person . |
| 19 | However , he may receive some additional benefits which recognise the fact that he is working in a foreign land . |
| 20 | And despite the fact that he is unveiling his Cicciolina-inspired work at a time when sexually-adventurous artists are regularly harassed , progressive museum directors arrested on obscenity charges , and an increasing number of independent films slapped with the dreaded X-rating — a proven box-office poison — Koons says he is not worried about achieving his goals . |
| 21 | About the fact that he is dying . ’ |
| 22 | In order to decide whether this is so , account must be taken , not only of the fact that the worker is employed on board a vessel registered in the member state in question , but also of other circumstances , such as the fact that he is in the employ of a company incorporated under the law of that state and established there , or the fact that he was hired in that state and that the employment relationship between him and his employer is subject to the law of the flag state , or the fact that he is insured under the social security system of that state and pays income tax there : see pp. 3009–3010 , paras . |
| 23 | He wins universal applause from his followers and admiration from the reader , despite the fact that he is going to take away the paradise which may still have been ours . |
| 24 | Indeed , through the fact that he is spoken of as though there present , something different is being said of Christ than of anyone else . |
| 25 | For instance , usury was not a sin in the Jewish laws so his way of living , which is seen as immoral by Christian terms , is justified by the fact that he is abiding by his own laws . |
| 26 | I appreciate the hon. Gentleman 's views ; I also appreciate the fact that he is presenting a proposal to the House of Commons . |
| 27 | Much of a regulatory enforcement agent 's behaviour is moulded by the fact that he is confronted with organizational activity , where the policeman is typically concerned with individuals or groups . |
| 28 | He faxes me , not to own up to being Clark Kent , but to draw attention to the fact that he is giving his surplus Y-fronts to Mary Loudon ( author of Nuns Unveiled , Chatto it says here ) for onward transmission to the homeless . |
| 29 | It is well worth visiting and contains facsimiles of many fine and interesting manuscripts , but be prepared for the fact that it is geared to schools and is therefore rather didactic . |
| 30 | The fact that it is made by men with no faces and only two fingers each merely makes it all the more remarkable . |