Example sentences of "fact that [pers pn] find [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite apart from the fact that they find it very interesting , I think that people outside the university would be pleased to know that a course of such down to earth practical is taught in a place which they sometimes regard as being rather airy fairy . |
| 2 | The fact that he found it less easy to talk about such things to a young girl did not mean he was less impassioned than she was . |
| 3 | Alcuin thought he might be employed in making peace , but the fact that he found it necessary to protest that he had never been disloyal to Offa suggests that his allegiances were being called into question . |
| 4 | ( The fact that I found it offensive to have to make any such argument for human equality shows that I was working with an ethical a priori approach , but I believe that a case can be made . ) |
| 5 | Instead she stood with her eyes closed , lest they betrayed the fact that she found him to be disturbing to her . |