Example sentences of "the fact [be] [that] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact is that he has been saved from a disaster primarily caused by his ill-judged decision , based on terrible advice , to join the mechanism . |
| 2 | The fact is that he blew up badly . ’ |
| 3 | Look at Carlos Lopes — I would n't compare myself with Lopes , but the fact is that he ran his fastest 10K while he was training for a marathon [ Lopes ran the then second fastest ever 10,000m , with 17:17.48 in July 1984 , just one month before winning the Olympic marathon in a record 2:09.21 ] . |
| 4 | The fact is that he had much to do with the development of that car , that he worked hard , drove cleanly and finished steadily : those are the marks of a real champion rather than a flash in the pan . |
| 5 | The fact is that he went to a race meeting at Silverstone in 1965 and decided right then and there that what he wanted most was to be a racing driver . |
| 6 | Even if such statistics belie the myth of an enormously popular president , the fact is that he and his staff managed to convince sufficient members of congress that he and his programme enjoyed overwhelming public support . |
| 7 | The fact was that he was not cerebral ; he was a reflex of confusing emotions and instant passions . |
| 8 | The fact was that he had been seduced . |
| 9 | The fact was that he was enjoying the experience . |
| 10 | His troubles in 1971 , however , were not just the March and his propensity for accidents : the fact was that he was now an experienced F3 driver , known to be quick , but by the nature of the formula was racing against a lot of people who were just beginners and knew far less than he did about the sport . |
| 11 | Although Kraal tried his hardest to do as Minch had told him and talk to Creggan , the fact was that he was not very good at it . |
| 12 | The fact was that he , the main proponent of the scientific method , was becoming increasingly frightened by a superstition society had considered dead before he was born . |
| 13 | The fact was that he was soured by a murder case with no body , by family enmity amounting to hatred , by a surfeit of gossip and a veneer of superstition which was much more than half pretence . |
| 14 | The fact was that he did not want to work on Sunday . |