Example sentences of "fact that [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , to revert to the question of the 11+ , the fact that girls as a group consistently did better than boys did not result in more grammar school places for girls . |
| 2 | incorrect or ineffective decisions may be made , due to the fact that members of a committee are unfamiliar with the deeper aspects of issues under discussion . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This stems from the fact that members of the House of Lords make up the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council . |
| 5 | 683 were whether ( a ) the fact that the Bar Council , which was the accusatorial body , formed part of the Senate , which was the judicial body , meant that fair-minded people would regard the proceedings of the Senate 's disciplinary tribunal as tainted with the appearance of bias and ( b ) the fact that members of the same profession were both the accusers and the majority of the disciplinary tribunal could give rise to the same objection . |
| 6 | For example , M Thompson et al. ( 1986 ) have highlighted the fact that estimates of the latter vary by a factor of 67 ! |
| 7 | Comfort may be taken from the fact that elements of the system have been working successfully in many LEAs . |
| 8 | The importance of social class membership in providing access to resources , including income , was demonstrated by the fact that differences between the propensity of those in different classes to retire early increased with distance from pension age . |
| 9 | Something of the difference between working for Dean or Balcon and for John Maxwell can be gleaned from the fact that denizens of the latter referred to BIP 's script department as the Borstal . |
| 10 | The fact that researchers in the psychology of driving have not stressed the potential effects of such arousal is particularly surprising given that feelings of risk are often considered to be one of the most important variables in the control of normal driving . |
| 11 | Just on item eight and item nine , Lord Mayor , Community Health N H S Trust and Health N H S Trust , to report the fact that dispensations from the Department of the Environment have rec been received for Councillors and , enabling them to take part in the debate but er not to vote . |
| 12 | This conclusion is supported by the fact that changes in the fossil record , even rather rapid ones like the increase in human brain size in the last four million years , were slower by a factor of 1,000 than the rate at which changes can be produced by artificial selection in laboratory populations or domestic animals . |
| 13 | He cites as evidence the fact that changes in the heavens were first noted , recorded and discussed by Western astronomers after the proposal of the Copernican theory . |
| 14 | In calculating the expenses of production of a commodity we must take account of the fact that changes in the amounts produced are likely , even when there is no new invention , to be accompanied by changes in the relative quantities of its several factors of production . |
| 15 | The facts that much farmed land falls short of its potential and that in large areas of Africa population levels are low , do not alter the fact that innovators in the tradition of Chipimbi continue to succeed in achieving important increases in productivity . |
| 16 | Is not it also a fact that pupils in the worst authorities , run by Labour , have the worst GCSE English and maths results ? |
| 17 | You may like to consider the fact that readers of the popular press contributed millions to BandAid , SportAid , Comic Relief etc ; have taken solidarity action in support of trade unionists in South Africa and Namibia ; are informed about workers ' conditions in the same industries in the Far East and so on . |
| 18 | A major problem for climatologists has been the fact that temperatures in the southern hemisphere have risen more than in the northern hemisphere . |
| 19 | But , if so , the fact that twins with a left hander in their immediate family showed a significantly smaller ear asymmetry ( and lower overall score ) than twins without a family history of sinistrality is not readily explained , at least within traditional Mendelian models of inheritance . |
| 20 | He said that , despite the fact that representatives of the Russian Parliament did not want them to be built and decisions had been taken for them not to be built , they were still being built because of the nature of the command economy that is being phased out . |
| 21 | Mr Holland , 48 , revealed actors stood in front of walls in early episodes to hide the fact that parts of the set were not painted . |
| 22 | Anthony King , David Broder and others have deplored the fact that candidates for the presidency are no longer subject to adequate party screening and peer review procedures . |
| 23 | Members will be conscious of the fact that results for the Bank in Britain were substantially better than those predicted earlier and , of course , this will have a bearing on the outcome of discussions . |
| 24 | This tripartite distinction , easy to uphold on the grounds of typography , is complicated , however , by the fact that fragments of the italicized Lord 's Prayer passage find themselves brought in from the right-hand margin to form part of the body of the text when , further truncated , they make up the liturgical stutter of |
| 25 | The " continuum " which is said to link the high and low varieties results from the fact that individuals in the community have differential access to these varieties depending on their social status and social relationships at home and at work . |
| 26 | The problem is compounded by the fact that children in the junior school are increasingly expected to read silently , and thus without help . |
| 27 | But Richard Wilson says he regrets the fact that units like the Ritchie Russell have to find money from outside the NHS . |