Example sentences of "fact [conj] he [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that he rapes her on the night that Stella 's baby is born , on their bed , and in his wedding pyjamas makes Stanley seem even more bestial . |
| 2 | The fact that he gets it by being told it , as opposed to observing it for himself , is incidental . |
| 3 | Even though the hon. Gentleman occasionally speaks with forked tongue — and , as we shall see later , his views are not shared by his Front-Bench colleague , the hon. Member for Fife , Central ( Mr. McLeish ) — I welcome the fact that he proclaims his support for the TECs . |
| 4 | Nothing particular follows from the fact that he visits them once a month , except perhaps we infer that he has a close relationship with them . |
| 5 | Now evidence shows that it 's more than the fact that he has something on his mind to distract him from sex — it 's an actual physical phenomenon . |
| 6 | Here , his unequivocal response to Mrs Hollar 's pleas — " Mrs Hollar , I will do everything I can for him " ( p. 82 ) — is made more emphatic by the fact that he interrupts her in order to say it , and its effect is to affirm his commitment to help at the expense of any considerations for his negative face , a change in priorities which is central to the development in Anderson 's character . |
| 7 | Furthermore , the fact that he sees them as two distinct individuals does not necessarily mean that they exist as two distinct individuals when they are not perceived . |
| 8 | This is in spite of the fact that he believes there 's no evidence that watching violence on screen leads to violence in real life . |
| 9 | Thus the argument is that the victim 's right to autonomy and freedom of sexual choice does not need to yield to the principle that a defendant should be judged on the facts as he believes them to be ; it would be so simple ( because of the inevitable physical proximity of the man and woman ) for the man to ascertain the facts here . |
| 10 | The decision may certainly be said to be out of line with the recent trend , that a defendant should be judged on the facts as he believes them to be ; and this led the Criminal Law Revision Committee to recommend that the rules should be harmonized and that the prosecution should prove that the man realized that the girl was under 16 . |
| 11 | Anybody trying to bring about a major transformation in a science must direct attention to the facts as he sees them : to a herbalist in the tradition of Culpeper it was an important fact that a particular herb was collected under a waxing or a waning moon ; for one of Liebig 's pupils analysing it this was not a relevant fact at all . |